Our house gets quite hot in summer, most days over the last few weeks its hits 30C inside. We have air conditioning but use it as little as possible due to the cost. We use fans till it hits 28 and then use the air conditioning for a few hours in the evenings.
We've been looking into putting blinds/awnings on the outside of the windows so yesterday we headed off to Bunnings - a regular weekend pastime in Aus! (Though I can't buy a sausage sandwich unfortunately) Our windows are all big - one is 3 metres. I had $800 budgeted and for that we bought an awning to go over the 3 m window and four outdoor blinds for some of the 1.8 m windows. They have 5 year warranties & should cut the UV light by 90%. That should bring the heat down.
We will eventually do all the windows and put ceiling fans in as well.
Rockstar Finance is having a "blog off" where you read two bloggers posts and vote for the best one. Round 1 is up now if you'd like to check it out:
Rockstar Rumble Round One
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