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Originally Posted by rowan
Are they refrigerative or evaporative coolers? (I think you call them swamp coolers)
I've become interested in more passive cooling lately... next summer (it's winter here) I'm going to experiment with regularly misting the roof tiles with water. The idea is that the mist evaporating - almost instantaneously - cools the tiles, dissipating heat from the roof space and therefore cooling the house. It won't drop the temperature to anywhere near "chilly" but it means the refrigerative (and noisy/expensive) A/C unit doesn't need to work as hard.
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I don't think Easton would survive living with a swamp cooler.
We are going to have a metal roof put on this year. They do not hold the heat like asphalt singles and they will last longer than the 30 year shingles that really only survive 10 years max in this AZ heat.
Then we are going to start on Solor panels. It's time to put the electric company out of our monthly bills.