Most of what can help keep your house cool is infrastructure and not an air conditioner like most people might believe.
I have written about keeping cool last summer and mentioned about growing reeds to act as shade for windows but as I was growing corn near one our windows I decided to use them as shade by placing the box on a few blocks. So far the hot weather seems to have calmed down.
I feel with our house which gets very hot easily that shading with plants in the windows alone will not help provent the temperature from rising during hot weather so I am going to try putting up shade cloth along the wooden eves on the northern side of the home.
Seeing as we are renting they will not be put on permanently but with the use of screw eyes into the eves and tent pegs and rope to tie it down so when we move it's as simple as pulling the pegs out and unscrewing and filling the holes.
Once finished I'll have to post photos and an update on how effective this is.
If anyone else has had a house that suffers from the heat and used shade cloth to lower the temperature let me know how it went.
NATURAL HARVEST
Garden tools, Organic Seeds, Fruit Trees & Seedlings
I have written about keeping cool last summer and mentioned about growing reeds to act as shade for windows but as I was growing corn near one our windows I decided to use them as shade by placing the box on a few blocks. So far the hot weather seems to have calmed down.
I feel with our house which gets very hot easily that shading with plants in the windows alone will not help provent the temperature from rising during hot weather so I am going to try putting up shade cloth along the wooden eves on the northern side of the home.
Seeing as we are renting they will not be put on permanently but with the use of screw eyes into the eves and tent pegs and rope to tie it down so when we move it's as simple as pulling the pegs out and unscrewing and filling the holes.
Once finished I'll have to post photos and an update on how effective this is.
If anyone else has had a house that suffers from the heat and used shade cloth to lower the temperature let me know how it went.
NATURAL HARVEST
Garden tools, Organic Seeds, Fruit Trees & Seedlings
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