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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 days agoWonder how those cheap construction Texas McMansions with the huge foyer and high ceilings will fare. Some of the largest power bills I ever had were from when I lived in Texas, and that was in a pretty small place.
minus-squareFelis_Catus_Domesticus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·8 days agouse (ceiling) fans & turn the AC down. way down. heat rises. make the high ceilings work for you not against you. just like they did in the 1920’s.
minus-squarepoopkins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 days agoHonest question: doesn’t a ceiling fan blow the hot air back down around the house?
minus-squarephizuol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoThey are reversible so you can change the direction… which I should do right now!
minus-squareFelis_Catus_Domesticus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agological fallacy…
minus-squareLucelu2@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoI just saw a YT clip about how the 25 y/o McMansions are all falling apart.
minus-squarecrunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoThere’s also that privatized power grid that’s never been a problem
Wonder how those cheap construction Texas McMansions with the huge foyer and high ceilings will fare. Some of the largest power bills I ever had were from when I lived in Texas, and that was in a pretty small place.
use (ceiling) fans & turn the AC down. way down. heat rises. make the high ceilings work for you not against you. just like they did in the 1920’s.
Honest question: doesn’t a ceiling fan blow the hot air back down around the house?
They are reversible so you can change the direction… which I should do right now!
logical fallacy…
I just saw a YT clip about how the 25 y/o McMansions are all falling apart.
There’s also that privatized power grid that’s never been a problem