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Old 04-28-16, 09:01 PM   #21
Elcam84
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The issue is its a pier and beam built in 1960 and back then houses were built poorly... I have added onto the house and done all the usual while doing it. Only thing I haven't finished is the insulating of the perimeter concrete walls and the rest of the plastic on the ground. That adds allot of heat and cooling load.
While not on the plains it is somewhat windy. Especially in summer... Funny how when the temps are over 100* people say it's not so bad because there is a breeze... And I have to remind them that the wind and heat is how a convection oven cooks so much faster...

The cooing problems here aren't so much the day time highs. It's the fact that it doesn't cool off at night. It will be midnight and it's still over 90*. The lows will briefly get to 80 to 85 but by 9 am it will be back to 90*. Now you know the main part of why we are moving. I don't like to be hot and it's hot allot here.

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