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Tips to beat the summer heat

12 tips to reduce heat in your house

1. Insulating your house walls and roof can prevent summer heat from entering. With less heat entering your house, less electricity for your air-conditioning is needed. Maybe you won't even need air-conditioning!

2. Improve air flow in your house! With good positioning of your windows and knowing where your windows should face (to get gentle breeze coming in the house), you can improve air circulation in your house. Hence replacing heat that is trapped within the house with cooler air from the outside.

3. Open your doors during night times when its cooler to release the hot air in your house. Close the doors in the mornings to retain the cool air in the house.

4. Seal gaps in windows and doors. Hot air will be able to enter the house when you least need it

5. Put up blinds, curtains or awnings to prevent additional heat from entering your house.

6. Use fans instead of air-conditioning.

7. Build high ceilings for your house if possible. Since hot air rises, heat will be trapped at the high ceilings. Especially feasible in states or countries where summers are longer than winters.

8. Build shades and trees outside of your house will block sunlight from falling directly on your house. Just make sure that your shades and trees are not blocking the incoming air flow into your house!

9. Set your thermostat properly. Typical settings are 78 degrees for summer cooling and 68 degrees for winter heating. Operating costs can increase from between 3% to 8% for each degree your thermostat is lowered.

10. Keeping air filterrs clean and choosing the type of air filter can improve the overall efficiency of the system, hence reducing overall electric costs.

11. Close doors and windows to the outside to reduce heating load in winter and the cooling load in summer.

12. Seal cracks and use storm doors and/or insulated doors to prevent air leaks into your house. This will ensure the hot air stays longer in your house in winter and cool air stays longer in your house during summer.