@catthegreat 1989 Airtemp CoolMate (rebadged GE)! Also sold as the Hotpoint Porta-Cool…it has a handle! This is actually close to the last year they made these…the design dates to the early 70s.
@catthegreat@PooltoyWolf Had something like that in a campus apartment in the 1980s. Would have been a few years older. It worked.
That plus the gas wall heater that went to both the living room and the bedroom hallway. Life as a cheap college student wasn’t that bad. But I only picked places with some kind of A/C because I knew what was coming. Now it’s here.
@Kyeh@yakkoTDI - Thanks!
My goodness that video was thorough! Now, although I feel fully educated in swamp coolers it’s left me with questions about refrigerant, computer duster cans, and the ethyl chloride that I used to use for pain.
Well, at least I know what I’ll be researching today…
@Lynnerizer@yakkoTDI What’s nice about them (mine is a big box that lives up on the roof) is that it doesn’t use any chemicals other than good old dihydrogen monoxide, and gives a less refrigerated feeling to the air; air conditioning where I used to work could be too cold for me.
@Cerridwyn Damn right. Here in the Portland Oregon are where it’s been known as cool and rainy, temp extremes have been bad in Summer and each year a bunch of people without A/C die; often seniors and “unhoused.”
@pmarin I have a friend up there and he comments every year about how much hotter it gets. Where he lives does not have apartment installed AC. He has a small personal unit, but it does not compare (my dtr in san jose ca says the same, where she didn’t need AC often enough when she moved there, now there are days it is miserable) (Oh, bites fingers for what I wanted to say next) (Can I say Gore was right without it being in the politix thread)
@Cerridwyn@pmarin I’ve lived just outside the Portland area for ~60 years. I remember a couple of summers in my early youth when the tar/asphalt on our residential street got soft and gooey in spots and would stick to your shoe (or foot if barefoot).
The hottest I’ve experienced here was 120F on my front porch in the summer of 2022.
Central air in main living areas with mini splits in bedrooms and shop. Ceiling fans in all bedrooms and great room. I live in an arid environment and evaporation is a very effective cooling solution. Many in my area use evaporative coolers “swamp cooler”
Never had any form of air conditioning till I moved out at 27. Now I have central air but still love to sleep at my dads house and up north with the windows wide open and feel the fresh breeze from the lake.
Fans & windows air conditioner. Real old house 100+yrs,
Blackout curtains, dehumidifier. All the gear depending on the humidity and temperature of the house. Really well insulated R19 pink stuff; we replaced the cracked plaster walls and add the insulation. We removed the old news papers that were tucked behind the wood lathing as insulation. A little more fire resistant, maybe. Once this place cools or heats up it maintains the temperature for a couple of days. Upper Midwest near Lake Michigan so we have weather changes hourly around here;)
@jkawaguchi Oh, yeah - I just discovered blackout curtains a couple of years ago; I never realized how effective they could be. They’re good for keeping out the cold in the winter, too!
A/C is reserved for heat waves, otherwise, we just open every window in the house at sunset and close them the next morning and everything stays nice and cool.
@tinamarie1974 Didn’t end up moving there, but when I was considering moving to Houston for work, some houses had 4 central A/C units. Top floor left, top floor right, bottom… etc etc.
My house is haunted, so it’s never warm.
(It’s also facing north, full of holes, and blocked in by taller houses so it’s always for a shady breeze about it.)
Air conditioner.
All of the above, sub in small ice blocks in a nice cold beverage.
By being icy to all my friends and neighbors.
@haydesigner Hi neighbor!
Got my own window shaker in my bedroom, almost as old as me!
@PooltoyWolf say more…
@catthegreat 1989 Airtemp CoolMate (rebadged GE)! Also sold as the Hotpoint Porta-Cool…it has a handle! This is actually close to the last year they made these…the design dates to the early 70s.
@catthegreat @PooltoyWolf Had something like that in a campus apartment in the 1980s. Would have been a few years older. It worked.
That plus the gas wall heater that went to both the living room and the bedroom hallway. Life as a cheap college student wasn’t that bad. But I only picked places with some kind of A/C because I knew what was coming. Now it’s here.
Swamp cooler!
@billyboyleo You must live in the desert.
@billyboyleo @Kidsandliz, I grew up with a swamp cooler in Shasta County (NorCal) and never again.
Another vote for swamp cooler!
@Kyeh
I just NOW learned what a swamp cooler is, I thought for sure it was going to be slang for something.
Lol…
@Lynnerizer It IS a weird name - I was dubious when I first heard of them too! I guess the formal term is “evaporative cooler.”
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer Swamp cooler got the name because if you do not clean them regularly they smell like a swamp.
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI - Thanks!
My goodness that video was thorough! Now, although I feel fully educated in swamp coolers it’s left me with questions about refrigerant, computer duster cans, and the ethyl chloride that I used to use for pain.
Well, at least I know what I’ll be researching today…
@Kyeh Another low humidity area of the country resident I presume.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh
Must be. These would never work in New England. It’s far too humid in our warm and hot weather.
@ItalianScallion @Kidsandliz Yep, Colorado - where I’m currently getting nosebleeds from the dry air.
@Lynnerizer @yakkoTDI What’s nice about them (mine is a big box that lives up on the roof) is that it doesn’t use any chemicals other than good old dihydrogen monoxide, and gives a less refrigerated feeling to the air; air conditioning where I used to work could be too cold for me.
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer slang for evaporative air.
Minisplits.
June Gloom, aka Coastal Fog
swamp cooler. I just learned about June Gloom!!
Central Air
Back when I was 20, I didn’t care that it was 110 degrees. Now that I near 70 and it’s 115 instead, I care
@Cerridwyn Damn right. Here in the Portland Oregon are where it’s been known as cool and rainy, temp extremes have been bad in Summer and each year a bunch of people without A/C die; often seniors and “unhoused.”
@pmarin I have a friend up there and he comments every year about how much hotter it gets. Where he lives does not have apartment installed AC. He has a small personal unit, but it does not compare (my dtr in san jose ca says the same, where she didn’t need AC often enough when she moved there, now there are days it is miserable) (Oh, bites fingers for what I wanted to say next) (Can I say Gore was right without it being in the politix thread)
@Cerridwyn @pmarin I’ve lived just outside the Portland area for ~60 years. I remember a couple of summers in my early youth when the tar/asphalt on our residential street got soft and gooey in spots and would stick to your shoe (or foot if barefoot).
The hottest I’ve experienced here was 120F on my front porch in the summer of 2022.
Central air in main living areas with mini splits in bedrooms and shop. Ceiling fans in all bedrooms and great room. I live in an arid environment and evaporation is a very effective cooling solution. Many in my area use evaporative coolers “swamp cooler”
Never had any form of air conditioning till I moved out at 27. Now I have central air but still love to sleep at my dads house and up north with the windows wide open and feel the fresh breeze from the lake.
Fans & windows air conditioner. Real old house 100+yrs,
Blackout curtains, dehumidifier. All the gear depending on the humidity and temperature of the house. Really well insulated R19 pink stuff; we replaced the cracked plaster walls and add the insulation. We removed the old news papers that were tucked behind the wood lathing as insulation. A little more fire resistant, maybe. Once this place cools or heats up it maintains the temperature for a couple of days. Upper Midwest near Lake Michigan so we have weather changes hourly around here;)
@jkawaguchi Oh, yeah - I just discovered blackout curtains a couple of years ago; I never realized how effective they could be. They’re good for keeping out the cold in the winter, too!
A/C is reserved for heat waves, otherwise, we just open every window in the house at sunset and close them the next morning and everything stays nice and cool.
I live in the desert so refrigerated air is a must.
I had a heat pump installed on Halloween of 2022.
Central air, but 2 story with one unit, so also a portable in room unit in my bedroom. It gets toasty on the 2nd floor
@tinamarie1974 Didn’t end up moving there, but when I was considering moving to Houston for work, some houses had 4 central A/C units. Top floor left, top floor right, bottom… etc etc.
@pmarin I believe it. Spent some time there in August years ago on a business trip. It was absolutely miserable.
Give Mr. Freeze a call.
KuoH
My house is haunted, so it’s never warm.
(It’s also facing north, full of holes, and blocked in by taller houses so it’s always for a shady breeze about it.)
Winter however is a hitch.
@pakopako where are you?
@pakopako and can you send them over for Summer?