For all you yankees freezing your balls off....

[Pam]

Out of curiosity, do they build for hot weather in Australia? They used to in the south, but not any more. I'm not sure when the switch came, but my house was built in 1957, and it would be an oven without AC. It has a front porch, but it's small, and no back porch, the crawl space is low, and the roof peak is low. I have nice tree cover, but that wasn't part of the building plan.

The house I used to live in was built pre-1920. It had high ceilings, a 4 foot crawl space, and high peaked roof. There were deep porches on the front and back as well. People would drop by and be surprised that it was nice and cool inside with no air conditioning.

 

[bentalphanerd]

Have our own house style up here - the "Queenslander" theres air vents above all the door frames throughout - no wall insulation. Off the ground for heat & flood. High ceilings to catch the heat into a peaked roof.

Basically it just catches any breeze from any direction and passes it through the house.

Last 20 years though...they just build little brick shoe-boxes with mega air-con.

 

[Pam]

Have our own house style up here - the "Queenslander" theres air vents above all the door frames throughout - no wall insulation. Off the ground for heat & flood. High ceilings to catch the heat into a peaked roof.



Basically it just catches any breeze from any direction and passes it through the house.

That looks like the beach houses that are built here. It still gets cold enough long enough in the winter here to need to take that into consideration in building, so you don't really see a house like that unless it's near water. I can't say I've seen much in the way of home design around here that takes weather into consideration at all.

Last 20 years though...they just build little brick shoe-boxes with mega air-con.

*nods* Same over here. And they push down all the trees before they build, so there is no relief but to run the AC.

I had a ridge vent put in on my roof, and this summer the Puppy Au Pair and I put a foil radiant barrier in the attic to try and help with cooling. Next up will be an attic fan, or whole house fan, as some people call it.

 

[Nova]

Nice house bent. I love the way the grass is growing through the flower garden bricks/stones.

 

[Pam]

*puzzled look* That's Bent's house? Bent, I thought you said the floor of your house was 6 or 8 inches under ground to keep it cooler in the heat? Am I misremembering?

 

[bentalphanerd]

not mine...house too big, yard too small. I do have an old queenslander though...built in 1880

 

[rabbit]

Yes, oddly I love the warmer weather for my pepperplants, but oddly I have a grow room and I've been oddly praying for colder weather for at least another month. I'm a crazy northener that LOOOOOVES to ICEFISH!!!.LOL! What's funny is I'm serious too...LOL!! I do like warm weather if on a vacation though. Then again I could take a whole week to icefish I guess there are crazy yanks too...lol!