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Originally Posted by willravel
Oh, is that you in the bottom window? You have a very beautiful home.
Okay, so taking into account there is no space between the roof and ceiling to act as a barrier, you must turn your upstairs into a monsoon. The best way to do this is to pull in air from the cooler side(s) of the house and push them out the other cool sides. As stated, you pull the drapes and close windows on the hot side of the house to insulate against the sun, but you can't pull drapes on the roof (although...),
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What about painting the flat part with reflective paint? Is that dumb?
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so you're still gathering a great deal of heat from above. Point incoming fans up if you don't have ceiling fans. The idea is to make sure the air can't sit under the ceiling and get hot because it's moving away too fast. You also should test to find the best time of day to just open up everything. Usually this is just before dusk, but it's going to depend on the breeze and outside temperature. It's a trial and error type thing, usually.
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Hm...The clerestory thing above the stairwell and landing has 2 windows up WAY high - one on the north and one on the south side. If we figured out some way to open and shut them, and blow the hot air out them with fans, that might help a lot, as that space turns into a huge column of hot air. I wonder if we brought in some dry ice if we could create an indoor thunderstorm?
So...the general consensus seems to be that it would be better, ecologically speaking, to stay in our current house and make it more efficient, rather than abandoning it and its inefficiencies to someone else in favor of a new "green" house?