Summer is the time for fun and relaxation, but it can be difficult to enjoy if your home is just as hot and muggy as it is outside. The impact of summer heat entering homes through windows can make indoor spaces uncomfortable, emphasizing the need for effective cooling strategies. Tampa residents are no strangers to heat and humidity, but it doesn’t mean we enjoy it anymore. Keep reading for tips on keeping your home cool and comfortable all summer.
Summer Cooling Tips: Effective Ventilation Techniques with Exhaust Fans
You might think it’s best to keep your house closed in the middle of summer, but this only traps stale and musty air inside your home, reducing airflow. This summer, try opening up your windows occasionally to promote a cross-breeze at night, allowing cooler air to circulate through your home. Additionally, consider using exhaust fans to improve ventilation by expelling hot air and bringing in fresh air. Ceiling fans can also be set to pull cool air into the house, enhancing the cooling effect. We recommend opening them in the early morning before it gets too hot and in the evening after the sun has set to let the cool breeze in. This way, you’ll let the fresh air in without any heat.
Close Your Blinds
The sun is your enemy in keeping your energy costs down. As sad as it feels for some to close their blinds during bright, sunny days, it can help reduce your AC bill during the summer. A good rule of thumb is to close windows and blinds when it gets hotter outside than inside your home.
Install Ceiling Fans
Moving air helps keep you cool. So, it stands to reason that installing ceiling fans can reduce air conditioning costs. Additionally, circulating the air in your home helps distribute heat more evenly, reducing air conditioning costs. Placing a bowl of ice before a fan can create an icy cool breeze, providing a refreshing and cooling effect similar to a makeshift air conditioning system. Remember, your thermostat only reads the temperature in its immediate vicinity. So, consider installing a few ceiling fans to help reduce hot and cold spots.
Defeat Attic Heat
Attics aren’t only a space to store your old knickknacks and family photos. Since heat rises, your attic also traps a lot of heat. Warm air entering the attic through cracks and openings can significantly affect the overall temperature of your house. That heat makes your HVAC system work way harder than it needs to. So, consider contacting us to install an attic fan to help keep your house cool and your AC bill down. Attic fans help reduce the heat in your attic, keeping your home cooler and reducing the work your AC has to do to keep you nice and cool this summer.
Close Doors And Seal Gaps To Keep Your House Cool
Warm air entering your home through cracks and openings can significantly impact the indoor temperature, making it crucial to address these entry points. To help keep out the hot air, keep external doors closed and seal any gaps in your door frame or windows. You can also keep your windows closed whenever it’s hotter outside than it is inside.
Clean Your AC Filters Regularly
A dirty and clogged air filter makes your HVAC system work harder to cool the same space. Regular AC maintenance can help reduce energy costs by ensuring your system runs efficiently. So, regularly changing or cleaning your AC air filter helps reduce your summer cooling bill. If you haven’t changed or cleaned your filter in the last three months, then it’s time to contact ACS Home Services for a maintenance visit.
Cook Out
This summer, try cooking outside as much as possible or try not cooking at all. Keeping the blinds closed or curtains drawn if the windows receive direct sunlight at any part of the day can prevent rays and heat from sneaking through. Using your oven and stove top generates much heat, most circulating throughout your home and raising its temperature. Cooking inside generates warm air that circulates throughout the house. Ceiling fans can help circulate air and cool down the room.
Use this to spend more time with family, friends, and neighbors and host more barbecues and cookouts to keep the house cooler!
Air Conditioning Maintenance
Did you know that about 50 percent of your home’s energy bills are dedicated solely to heating and air conditioning? Regular AC maintenance can help reduce energy costs by ensuring your system runs efficiently. Using programmable thermostats can help manage energy consumption efficiently. And this number could increase if you’re not properly caring for your air conditioners. While preventative and seasonal maintenance might seem like a waste of money, they can save you much money and stress if nothing seems wrong with the unit.
Please don’t wait until you have no cool air in the middle of summer to make a maintenance call; be proactive and do it now! If you want to learn more about keeping your home cool and comfortable all summer, don’t hesitate to contact your local HVAC experts. Whether your AC needs work or you need to change your filters, we can help. At ACS Home Services, we’ll know how to help you achieve a calm oasis for your home with an efficiently running air conditioner.
We offer professional AC repair and related services at the following locations:
- Tampa air conditioning
- Clearwater air conditioning
- Sarasota air conditioning
- Brandon air conditioning
- Carrollwood air conditioning
- Land O’ Lakes air conditioning
- St. Petersburg air conditioning
- Town ‘n’ Country air conditioning
- Wesley Chapel air conditioning
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