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An environmentally friendly home without air conditioners

An environmentally friendly home without air conditioners

There are homes in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane that don’t need air conditioners to be comfortable in summer.

4 elements can help create an environmentally friendly home that doesn’t need an air conditioner – and understanding these will help you with reducing your heating in winter as well.

But its not enough to know these 4 elements – its knowing how to apply each one that makes the difference. They are: ventilation, windows and double glazing, shading and insulation.

But what about just undertaking a minor renovation? How do we get these elements to work and make an environmentally friendly home? Its easier than you might think.

Lets look at shading first. To avoid turning air conditioners on, keep the heat out of your home by protecting your roof, walls and windows from the radiant heat of the sun. Use shade cloth, awnings, pergolas, landscaping or other solid barriers that stop the heat getting you’re your windows and rest of the house. The greatest source of heat gain in your home is through radiant heat. But will double glazing your windows help?

Double glazing your windows is more effective in winter, but in summer can still stop up to 30% of the heat coming in; but the key is still shading. And of course double glazing is less effective if your windows are open to let a breeze in to assist help ventilation. Ventilation works in two ways, the first is simply by creating a breeze that helps cool you down. This can be aided with ceiling or room fans. The second is by using ventilation to draw cool air in from under your home or perhaps from the cool south side of your home and spread the fresh cool air around to avoid the use of air conditioners.

Bulk insulation isn’t as effective in summer as winter. To make your home environmentally friendly, use reflective foil insulation to repel up to 93% of that hot summer radiant heat. That’s what is really effective in the roof and ceiling to avoid using air conditioners.

By combining ventilation, protecting windows and using double glazing it is simple to make your existing home environmentally friendly and comfortable, or create a new environmentally friendly home.





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