DoomsdaysCWMar 2

Looking into a #SwampCooler unit for cooling this summer. It doesn't dehumidify the air, but we already have a dehumidifier. Has anyone had experience using a commercial swamp cooler?

Edit: Yeah, I guess it won't work where we are. Too humid, and to use the dehumidifier at the same time would just undo what the swamp cooler is doing. Looking into a portable a/c unit instead.

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@DoomsdaysCW

When it was really bad here during the heat dome we just got a small ac and turned one room into the cool room and then had fans in the rest of the house. The best fan we have is one that fits in the window with reversible air exchange and would turn it on as soon as the sun went down to pull the hot air out and the cool air in. My partner also built a corsi rosenthal box on the outside (our window was under a large overhang. It made the forest fire season livable. Gonna try to make one with a little roof over it this year.

Mar 2 at 3:28pmWeb
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@RobotDiver I bought a fan with a slot for a Merv filter last year. That actually helped with the wildfire smoke.
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@RobotDiver But yeah, I think we're going to go with a small a/c unit and have a "cold room".
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@DoomsdaysCW

It was definitely the most cost effective. I'm pretty sure our old place had no insulation in the roof and south facing windows so the minute it got warm it was a perpetual greenhouse.

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@RobotDiver The other "upgrade" we had done recently was repairing the "attic" window (it's actually only a step up from the 2nd floor, not a true attic). That way we can have the cold air coming in from the west (the mountains) and then use fans to direct it to the rest of the upstairs.