Part of the problem is that we are losing air through the swamp cooler ( will be fixed soon). The other problem is that the east and south sides of our house are covered in windows. 120" x 72" of windows. It's a veritable greenhouse. At 7:30 am we measured a temp of 95 through double paned tinted glass.
Problem: block the heat without spending hundreds of $$ on a house we are renting.
Solution: cardboard + duct tape + tinfoil.
Yee haw! That's us: klassy with a k. Despite the ghetto fabulous look, it did drop the temp in that part of he house by 8 degrees. We've ordered bamboo shades to purddy it up a bit.
Plus the tinfoil blocks both alien mind probes AND government brain scanners!
I have NO IDEA how you manage to remain plucky in that kind of crap. I would be totally murdering myself.
ReplyDeleteOh, the nights have been not so plucky. L and I were at each other's throats for a while b/c we could not sleep... getting a tower fan has helped some, but it's still hot as balls. It's not so bad during the day (84 w/ 7% humidity in the house is actually really comfortable), it's the nights that are lovely for drinking beer on the porch, brutal for sleeping. Hopefully once we get the dampener fixed we'll stop losing so much air into the atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteThe tinfoil helps. The monsoons help b/c the clouds block the sun. But even though Tucson really is a kick ass town/city, the weather (and quality of schools, lack of employment opportunities for me, etc) definitely inhibits a desire to set down anything resembling permanent roots.