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Cathy4017: You might not like the CO location so much in January. Almost every location with a 'continental' climate is either too hot in summer or too cold in winter (or both). I'm working on finding that mythical 'happy medium'.
Cathy4017: You might not like the CO location so much in January. Almost every location with a 'continental' climate is either too hot in summer or too cold in winter (or both). I'm working on finding that mythical 'happy medium'.
This is actually the first time I've ever been in CO in the summer, and seen the San Juans without snow on them. Since I've come here skiing so many times years ago, I have always been here in the winter before.
I will also be spending a good portion of the winter here during ski season, too, so.....we'll see how I like it after not having been here in the winter since 1984!
I have a feeling that there is not really a happy medium...it may just come down to having to spend each season in a different place.
We had all the windows changed about 5 years ago to the double glass insulated windows and had new attic insulation put in 2.5 years ago.
Anyway, for me when paper gets limp in the house it's way too humid for me. I work from home and can feel the dampness in paper (like printer paper) and it loses it's stiffness, it's at this point to me that it's already way past being too humid for my comfort level.
Today in our area it's about 95° outside with low humidity, and inside right now it's only 74° which is bearable for me as long as I don't have to be very active, but I can pretty much guarantee by 5PM it will be 78° and we'll turn on the A/C until about 11pm or 1AM when we'll switch back over to the swamp cooler again. At least that will keep the bill down somewhat.
We had our swamp cooler amputated and went refrigerated air a year ago...
Rich
Lots better, isn't it?
Even better than that is not needing AC at all. It is now 75 in here, 67 outside, and cooling down rapidly. Low tonight, 52. It doesn't get any better than this in the summer. My back patio is a cool, breezy oasis that is a pleasure to sit out in with a cold beer.
I am where I am meant to be, but it's going to take a bit more time before I can pull up and move again.
My swamp cooler has been keeping the house between 70 and 75 in the house during the day. It's even lower at night so we have been quite comfortable. We also run it on vent some of the time. I have been making jam so the humidity in the house is even higher. But I have not been hot or uncomfortable.
Yes, this is the third house we have had A/C installed since 1980. The other two were on the East Coast.
We have a small room used as an office which is the hottest part of the house during the summer. It has an inexpensive window unit which we use as a window fan...
It is funny what you get used to and what you come to think you need.
When I was a kid in the Roswell area, at first we had...nothing. When it was hot, you were hot. I thought we were uptown when we got a swamp cooler.
I left the state as a permanent resident years ago and now live in the humid south, so AC is king.
Over the years, visiting relatives in NM as I got older, I hated visiting a couple of them and staying with them during monsoon season. One memorable summer at one of my aunt's, it was 110 or so in the day...I think in the house at night, it might have cooled off all the way down to 85 or so...perfect sleeping weather with the sweat rolling off...
Now most of my relatives have both swamp and refrigerated air, and of course think they need it and I don't blame them. That's how I would set it up as well...save a little on the power with the cooler, and use the AC when it got brutal. It is so nice, and they get the best of both worlds...and I really don't mind visiting any more.
Newer homes in the Albuquerque metro are built with Refrigerated Air systems.
I think its way better, and I'm thankful both my homes in Vegas and Albuquerque have it.
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