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Summer heat may be good if
you’re at the beach or pool,
but when you’re at home, it
often means fighting scorching
temperatures with costly air
conditioning. Not only can this feel
like an endless battle during the
dog days of summer, but leaving
the trapped hot air in your home can
also worsen indoor air quality.
Considering people spend an
average of 90 percent of their time
indoors, this is a big deal. Proper
ventilation has many benefits, from
keeping a home comfortable all
summer long to improving overall
home health, including removing
pollutants and stale indoor air to
improve air purity. What’s more,
when you ventilate strategically, you
can enjoy cost savings as you won’t
have to use your air conditioner as
frequently.
You may be able to block the
sun strategically using blinds and
shades while opening windows on
the particularly cool evenings, but if
you really want to embrace the trend
of healthy home ventilation, consider
systems that focus on specific parts
of your home, including the attic,
garage and indoor spaces.
Whole house fans
Whole house Fans don’t just
recirculate air in your home like
air conditioning does; they work
by continuously replacing it with
fresh air in your home and attic.
Solatube Whole House Fans will
pull the cool, fresh outside air into
your living spaces through your
windows. Then they push hot, stale
indoor air through your attic and
out the vents.
During the warmer months, using
this Whole House Fan cools the air in
your house as well as the structure
and contents. This helps cool your
home including your attic by up to
30 degrees, allowing those areas to
stay much cooler the following day,
which is the principle of Thermal
Mass Cooling. This equates to fresher
air and lower overall costs to keep
your home cool when compared to
air conditioning.
Attic fans
When the heat of summer hits,
hot air needs to be vented from
your attic to keep living spaces
comfortable, air conditioning
units from overworking, and roof
structures and materials from
deteriorating. With attic fans, your
attic stays cool and dry while you
enjoy greater comfort in your home,
lower utility bills and prolonged
roof life.
These solar-powered attic fans
help keep spaces from reaching
incredibly high temperatures when
the sun beats down on the top of a
home, plus you can feel good about
adding to the eco-friendly features
of your home. Learn more at www.
solatube.com/attic-fans.
Garage fans
For many people, the garage is an
extension of the home and offers a
bounty of usable space. Whether
it’s your place to work on your car,
your fitness or a DIY project, you
want to keep the heat out. Solatube
offers two great solutions: powered
and solar-ventilation fans to remove
heat and fumes from any garage all
day, so you can enjoy your garage in
total comfort.
Solar-powered systems run all
day without using any electricity so
you keep the entire space cool with
no cost to operate. You can mount
different solar fans on the side of
the garage or the roof depending if
you have an open ceiling or a living
space above the garage. For garages
with attic space above them, keep
both spaces cool and comfortable
and your home protected from the
elements with Solatube’s powered
garage fan that pulls hot air out of
the garage and attic while bringing
cool air in from the outside.
With people spending more
time indoors than ever before, it’s
important to stay comfortable while
also being mindful of indoor air
quality. Smart ventilation systems
let you have both comfort and cool
during the toughest days of summer.
Learn more at www.solatube.com.
Courtesy BPT
AT HOME
Keep your home cool, improve air quality
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