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Originally Posted by Peakster
It is HOT 85*F in the house! My roommates don't seem to understand that keeping the windows open during the daytime heat doesn't help cool the place!
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Hey Peak,
It may be a bit late in the season for this, but if you put a soaker hose or yard sprinkler on the roof of your place and a timer that will activate it every 20 minutes or so, for about a minute or two duration (the right timer is the toughest part of the system to obtain, but they do exist), the evaporation of the water will give you a considerable amount of cooling for not so much money.
I suggested this to a friend that was suffering from the heat in her convenience store job. After the sprinkler setup, the inside temp dropped ten degrees. Seventy five-degrees is much easier to live with than eighty-five degrees.
-AC_Hacker