I’ve made it my mission to cut the utility bills at every home we’ve owned. Long before I learned about the risks of climate change, I was fanatical about energy efficiency because I’m cheap.

Whenever my wife and I move into a new home, I check the attic for adequate insulation. I look for leaks around doors and windows and install a programmable thermostat if needed. In our latest home, I’ve also insulated our water pipes with inexpensive foam from our local hardware store and painted mastic sealant on the seams of the air ducts. When our hot water heater needed replacement, we installed a tank-less water heater which decreased our summer-time gas use by 50%. In the summer, we found that setting the thermostat at 77 – 78 degrees and a gentle breeze from a fan was all that is required to be comfortable.

So far, we are on track to cut our utility bills by about half compared to the previous owner, but we are doing more. Our home has two large skylights that funnel too much heat out in the winter and let too much heat in the summer. We intend to replace these older windows with modern widows with five times the efficiency.

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Tall trees with spreading canopies are the best sun blockers, when the sun is high in the sky. The sun is highest in the sky in the summer months and in the middle of the day. Plant these tall trees on the south side of your home 10 to 25 feet from the house to shade the south-facing windows and the roof. This will help prevent summer and midday sunlight from overheating the home. Tall trees will allow low-angle sunlight to hit the home in winter months when warmth is needed.

Broader, shorter trees are useful for blocking lower-angle sun. The sun is lower in the sky in the morning and evening during all seasons, and throughout the entire day in winter. Plant the broad trees 20 to 50 feet away from the east and west walls to block the morning and afternoon sun that tends to overheat a home during the summer months.

Tree planting is a very site-specific and climate-specific job. Discuss your tree planting plans with your local nursery’s tree specialist or a local landscape architect. Investigate tree characteristics such as watering needs, required levels of clean-up (fruit, flowers, and leaves, for example) and whether the tree roots may clog nearby drain pipes.

Trees on the South should overhang the roof. Trees on the East and West should block the sun coming from a low angle.

The way you plant a tree is very important to its health and growth rate. Investigate the soil at your tree-planting site. Loosen the soil at your planting site to a depth of at least a foot and then remove it. Follow your tree expert’s recommendations for adding organic matter or fertilizer if necessary. When trees shade your yard, the yard needs less watering and the air around your home is cooler. So, when Spring comes around, plant a tree!

Well every thing has some advantages and disadvantages, same goes for the Air Conditioner. There are some advantages of the air conditioner one of them is that it provides cool air and keeps rooms very cool and the we can simply turn them on when it gets real hot, and viola, it’s cool.

Central cooling is also a luxurious feature in many homes, as it keeps the temperature in the entire house at your comfort level. You can also equip your central cooling unit with filters to clean the air and remove dirt, pollen and other allergy causing dust.

As there are some advantages of the air conditioner so there are disadvantages as well.

The most basic disadvantage of the air conditioner is that it is very expensive to use and consumes lot of electricity.Central A/C also requires insulation for best results, the combination of the two costs will reach over $20,000. Central Air units also require maintenance that can be very costly. Window A/C units are very common in Hawaii, and work well with a whole house fan unit, as you can cool a specific room with A/C while cooling your house with a whole house fan.

What exactly is A/C?

Air conditioning refers to the cooling and dehumidification of indoor air for thermal comfort. In a broader sense, the term can refer to any form of cooling, heating, ventilation or disinfection that modifies the condition of air.[1] An air conditioner (often referred to as AC or air con.) is an appliance, system, or mechanism designed to stabilise the air temperature and humidity within an area (used for cooling as well as heating depending on the air properties at a given time), typically using a refrigeration cycle but sometimes using evaporation, most commonly for comfort cooling in most buildings and motor-cars.

The concept of air conditioning is known to have been applied in Ancient Rome, where aqueduct water was circulated through the walls of certain houses to cool them. Similar techniques in medieval Persia involved the use of cisterns and wind towers to cool buildings during the hot season. Modern air conditioning emerged from advances in chemistry during the 19th century, and the first large-scale electrical air conditioning was invented and used in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier.

We are Hawaii’s source for a whole house fan. You may be shopping for a whole house fan to use as a replacement for an old one. You may be shopping for a whole house fan for the dream house you are building. Perhaps you are shopping for a whole house fan because you want to take advantage of this easy to use effective technology. You have come to the right place because Island Cooling Concepts offers the best whole house fans.

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Whole House Fan: Efficient Cooling for Your Home

Many people choose to use a whole house fan to cool their homes. Island Cooling offers a whole house fan to meet the needs of most homes and budgets. You may want to install a whole house fan because it is a simple and inexpensive method of cooling a house. A whole house fan will cool your house by drawing cool outdoor air inside through open windows. A whole house fan will exhaust the hot air from your house through the attic to the outside.

Ventilation: Whole House Fan

Improved evaporation cooling is one benefit you will have when you install a whole house fan from our IslandFan. Other benefits of a whole house fan from Island Cooling Concepts include improved ventilation and lower overall indoor temperatures.

You will also find that a whole house fan is an inexpensive way to cool your home when compared to some window air conditioner units. A whole house fan may not cool your house as much as central air conditioning, but it is far cheaper and much easier to install.

You can choose a whole house fan from 24 inches in diameter to 36 inches in diameter. You can also choose a whole house fan with a belt drive.

More Information: Whole House Fan

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Find out how a whole-house fan can save you money by cutting your air conditioner use 15 to 60 percent.

• If a well-insulated house is closed up during the heat of the day, it will heat up inside slowly like an insulated ice cube. In the evening when it’s cooler outside than inside, and you open the windows, a whole-house fan blows
  the hot air out of the house.
• The fan should be centrally located so that it draws air from all rooms in the house. Be sure your attic has sufficient ventilation to get rid of the hot air.
• To ensure a safe installation the fan must have an automatic shutoff in case of fire.
• Ceiling, paddle, and portable fans produce air motion across your skin that increases evaporative cooling.
• A moderate breeze of one or two miles an hour can extend your comfort range by several degrees and will save energy by allowing you to set your air conditioner’s thermostat higher or eliminate the need for air-conditioning altogether.
• Less frequent use of air conditioning by setting the thermostat higher will greatly cut cooling bills.