They used to. They had big porches. They also lined up hallways and windows so that airflow could be directed completely through a house’s open windows. They called it crossdraft.
They used to. They had big porches. They also lined up hallways and windows so that airflow could be directed completely through a house’s open windows. They called it crossdraft.
The simple answer is cost. Its a lot cheaper to build homes to more economic design plans and then just rely on air conditioning to cool them.
Things like really high ceilings which used to be used before air conditioning take up a lot of extra space. Also, while they save money on air conditioning in the summer, it costs more to heat them in the winter.
Its easier to just install HVAC.
Southerners are stupid and racist and anti semites
They can’t do anything....
You want to know about them....watch Deliverance ...a top shelf documentary
No AC till I was 15 in Jackson Mississippi ...1972
Attic fan
It were hot......later the weather changed and it was simply hot.....90 at night....80% humidity
Slippery women...lol....in that heat...
My AC has been out in Nashville area for two weeks ....hottest weather since 2012....97-98
You can’t get parts hardly
There is a very easy way to save on both heating and cooling costs, in any part of the country, with a very simple change in how homes are built.
That would be to have half to three quarters of the exterior walls sitting either half way below grade, or similarly behind berms many feet wide to accomplish nearly the same thing.
The earth is a very great insulator. The below grade ground temperature (below the frost line, about 3 to 5 feet down) is, on average, about 53 degrees Fahrenheit, making it cooler than the air in summer and often warmer than the air in winter. With it is a major insulator, the work/energy/power needed to complete cooling or heating is much less.
The trick is how to get developers to build that way (building partially below grade &/or sculpting the development’s landscape to create berms against half to three fourths of the exterior walls) and how to get folks to live with the style of homes built that way, instead of the style they think they want.
Look up “dogtrot house”.
These were cabins and houses built with a large center breezeway that created natural cooling.