Try this one. I have it and it's brilliant. Has a built in battery and USB-C. Paid 20 quid and now just under £13 so bought a couple more for family.
They have housing stock designed for it - external shutters, fly screens to leave windows open at night etc. All these passive options and then quite a few will have AC.
Yep, we are normally in Greece now, just visiting the UK. In Greece we have external steel shutters, awnings covering every windows with shade, fly screens, good double glazing with aluminium, not PVC and 5 split AC units.....
True yeah, we need to start building all our houses again, just retains the heat in the bricks, last night window open made zero difference, too muggy, think I need to look into the fly screen though.
Insulation can go a long way to reducing heat build up. Since we renovated last year we had a lot of wall and roof insulation installed and haven’t felt the heat yet. The real test will be when we hit 40C+ again.
I did wonder if that would be the case but it’s definitely been cooler. Haven’t needed to turn a fan on yet. It’s a South West facing house so gets a lot of sun and last year we felt it but so far nothing this year.
Yea - insulation stops the transfer of heat, so it works both ways. But then we have big windows with solar glass that let in/amplify the heat as much as possible
hence the need for external shutters. Honestly, stopping of direct sunlight before it hits the windows would stop so much heat getting into more modern/well insulated houses.thanks for the info, what sort of cost was something like you had done.
