geedee

I think you should buy at least one good quality dehumidifier before condensation starts damaging your home.....

nikki dreaming

I am off to the shop tomorrow thanks

Snort

Hi Nikki welcome to NS glad to see you are settling in.

A Dehumidifier works, we dont have one yet but we are considering it, someone mentioned ceiling fans these are fairly cheep ive seen them as low as $50, and they do cool you down, we have one in the bedroom and its a godsend in the hight of summer, if you have a split entry open plan consider putting one in an area where it pushes hot air high on the ceiling down into the lower level, this is good in the winter when its generally cool in the lower level. Other methods involve a pool in the back garden when it all becomes too much and you need to cool off fast.

Air conditioning is good, I hear a heat pump can be used for air conditioning, and they are supposed to be the most energy efficient heating/cooling system going.

Greenhill

If you're talking about geothermal there, this is true, plus the government will give you a few thousand dollars for installing one. Still will probably set you back at least $15k though and they might do a lot of digging or drilling in your land.

Definitely worth looking at if you have heating ducts already installed and have high oil/air con related costs.

bodgerx

Is air-con in homes less popular in Atlantic Canada? It seems most houses have it in Ontario...

Seems to me like you need Air-con. Of all the people I know in North America, they all have air-con in their homes. Not good for the environment, obviously, but there you go...

Cookie

We don't get as hot as eg Ontario which can reach into the 40Cs during the summer. We hit into the 30Cs though. We also get a bit of a breeze where we are but still, it's the humidity that needs to be controlled in the home - your clothes can feel damp in the closet and even your bedding feels damp when you go to bed.

Atlantic Xpat

Very rare in Newfoundland with the exception being those people who have a heat pump system. But not needed. One of the joys of living here is it never really gets that hot, nor that cold. On those days it is sticky we use the ceiling fan in the bedroom to keep cool at night and hang in the basement during the day when needed. I look forward to summer and lower energy costs unlike you mainlanders.

dbd33

Not all mainlanders. We don't have airconditioning and we didn't in the previous house, it's not common in older urban houses.

One neighbour on that street had a machine installed. I absolutely hated it, it ran 23 hours a day, rattling and clanking and generally being a bother to everyone. If I'd wanted to hear droning machinery all day and night I'd have moved to a suburb or into a factory. Bloody unhyphenated people, doncha hate them?

bodgerx

I suppose the newer, well serviced, units are a lot less intrusive. A friend in central Toronto has a window installed unit in the living room of the apartment. It is old, and a little clunky, but I took the extra noise over the heat for the few days I slept on the sofa there a couple of years back...

Partially discharged

The people two houses away from us set their AC at 22 c and leave all windows closed.....I'm sure they have huge bills and little fresh air in the house. They are, predictably unhyphenated.

AC is better at taking the humidity out of the air which is quite important in some parts of Canada.

Simon Legree

There is little point in having A/C if you don't have the windows closed. What does "predicably unhyphenated" mean ? When I lived in Ontario we kept the temp at 25 C. It was a central unit, mounted in the plenum. No bother. There is air circulation, through the ductwork, Life would be a little uncomfortable in most parts of Ontario without A/C I can tell you. it is not so common in the Maritimes because, believe it or not, the humidity is much less as is the temperature. It's to do with the continental land mass.

dbd33

One of the problems of life in Ontario is that, without effort, one cannot completely avoid the unhyphenated. They have some curious ethnic behaviours, among them an obsession with things related to coldness. This fixation includes the unnecessary chilling of their abodes from which spins the need to keep windows and curtains closed. You will note that whenever one of those people involved in ice hockey appears on the television he or she has the pasty complexion one otherwise associates with rent boys and members of the Libertines. Thus, when one encounters frigidity one may reasonable expect that the unhyphenated are somehow involved.

Partially discharged

Having AC and keeping the windows closed do go hand in hand....what I meant is that their windows are never open and they just go from heating season to AC season w/o getting fresh air in the house.

Unhyphenated is a term used on this board by some posters to refer to those people in Canada whose ancestors have been here for generations upon generations and have no ties to other places or cultures. Some posters look down on them.....think Bob and Doug in the worst case example.

Simon Legree

Would that include that Don Cherry character ? LOL

dbd33

I think he's more "chicken hawk" than "rent boy". His outfits wouldn't have looked out of place on Danny LaRue.