Found out the effects of direct sunlight heating really quick

Found out the effects of direct sunlight heating really quick

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Living in the north all my life didn’t leave me with much experience with how to properly air condition a house. That’s because where I grew up, unless I put in a window air conditioner in the apartment, there is no HVAC cooling. Growing up in a northern city, there wasn’t exactly a great need for air conditioning. But when you didn’t have it, that’s when you really, really wanted it. However, that added up to maybe 8 weeks out of the year. The rest of the HVAC equation for us was the heating of the apartment. That was no problem as we had wonderful radiant heat. So when we moved to the south, we got a crash course in HVAC cooling. The house we bought was the first time we lived in a house and the first one we owned. On top of that, we lived out in a rural setting with no neighbors close by. So we left the window shades and drapes open all the time. Well, I found out quick that this is a recipe for an HVAC cooling bill that will absolutely blow your mind. I thought the air conditioning was a bit pricey in the spring really. But after that first month of summer, I really got a taste. We quickly figured out that we had to close a lot of shades in the house to stop the direct sunlight heating from raising the temperature of the ambient air. Once we did that and got a bit more control of some thermostat setting parameters, we got our HVAC cooling bill to a very sustainable level.

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