heating

Is heating/cooling your home too expensive? Are you regretting that “open floor plan” home layout? These eco-friendly “vacuum cubes” can save the day!

Oct 4, 2021

Architecture, Furniture, Household

A/C, AC, air conditioning, architecture, cooling, cube, eco-friendly, floorplan, heating, HVAC, open floorplan, temperature, vacuum, vacuum cube

Background: Back in the days when fireplaces were a common method of heating a home, houses typically consisted of a number of smaller rooms with doors between them. However, modern homes tend to have open floor plans with large rooms that cannot be sealed off by doors. The Issue: In the open-floor-plan home-design world, heating…
Save heating / cooling costs by instead constantly painting and repainting your roof white and black, as the seasons change! Results in full employment for house painters, too.

Sep 20, 2021

Environment, Household

air conditioner, air conditioning, heater, heating, house paint, housepaint, paint exterior, summer, sunlight, winter

Background: In temperate latitudes, people frequently heat their homes in winter and cool their homes in summer. The Issue: The main source of heat is the Sun. So in the hot summer, a homeowner would want their roof & sun-facing walls to be reflective. But in the winter, they’d want the opposite—the roof should ideally…