Cooling Down

Our home in Merlin was a 2 story.  We opened all the windows on cool summer nights, and the chimney effect sucked the hot air out and the house cooled down.  Since my new home is a one story, I wondered how effective opening windows would be.

Yesterday was an 84 degree day, and I baked dinner in the oven.  The house warmed up to 74 degrees.  I opened all the windows last night about 9:30.  This morning, the outside temperature was 44 degrees, and the house had cooled down to 65.  Any cooler and the heat pump would have run.

I was very pleased with the way the house worked.  The air conditioning will probably not run much this summer - another money saver!