Screen doors in Texas..
#31
Originally Posted by jitkaau
We'd never be able to afford to have the AC going all of the time. How are your energy prices? The place I lived before I moved here used to have 113F temperatures with an occasional week of around 129F. Don't know if I like this place's weather any better, as we get 95F in the summer and 17F in the winter. However, we do have screen doors - don't like the sticky flies and mosquitoes!
Also fans help keep the air moving.
#35
I grew up with ceiling and box fans with windows and entrance doors open. Back in the early 80's, my sisters and I would sleep on a pallet right next to the open sliding door at my grandmother's apt. I have been living in a home that has central air and heat for the last 13 years and have not gotten used to the cool. I much prefer to keep the front door open with the screen door bringing in the breeze except even with us being only an hour away from the coast, there is not much of a breeze and the humidity far outweighs the regular heat. Plus dh grew up in central air and heat and cannot handle a warm home.
#36
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i would not want a house without a screen door, if the air conditioner broke down i would nt have a way to get air thru the house and in the spring and fall i love to have the door open to get fresh air in the house!
#37
#1 - HEAT
#2 - Dust and dirt because it's so dry here (in my part of TX anyway) I have to wash off the glass top picnic table that's on the screened-in patio EVERY day. The rag comes up brown. Can you imagine what the inside of the house would look like? Yikes!
#2 - Dust and dirt because it's so dry here (in my part of TX anyway) I have to wash off the glass top picnic table that's on the screened-in patio EVERY day. The rag comes up brown. Can you imagine what the inside of the house would look like? Yikes!
#38
I'm from Houston and we only had fans and later an attic fan. when i was grown i moved into a house with window air conditioners, then later central air. I miss air conditioning! i only have a swamp cooler now.
#39
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In my part of Texas it is blowing dirt, dirt and more dirt. The wind never stops blowing and I mean blowing, no breezy kind of thing, so we always have blowing dirt. You can smell it in your house sometimes and you have never opened windows and it was literally 100 degrees in the shade last Sat. Most days in the summer are 100 and over.
Robin in TX
Robin in TX
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