Beat the Great Indian Summer - the Natural way

With the start of summer in India, people will be planning to install airconditioners if they have not already done so. People have so little time to spend that they rarely do reasearch and spend time to find out if they can avoid using airconditioners. So I am writting this article with details I collected from various sites related to natural way's of keeping your home cool.

Bringing to your view disadvantages of airconditioners
1) Initial investment high.
2) Consumes lots of electricity.
3) Possible cause of release of gases which is depleting our ozone layer.
4) Creates noise pollution for neighbours.
5) Restricts our precious view to outside world, since we have to close all doors and windows.
6) Once we get accoustomed to the conditioned air our body will not be able to tolerated out of the room environment. Reduced immunity.


Natural cooling methods
1) Checkout your house exterior paint color. Dull / dark paints absorb more heat. If so repaint your home with bright, reflective colors.
2) Another main culprit for heating of the house is roof. You can paint your roof with bright reflective paints (white latex) . Also you can put up thached roof from coconut leaves (what they call as pandal in tamil) over your roof.
3) Landscape your house
4) Use sun control films for your windows

Alternate to airconditioner
Airconditioner has two jobs, one is to remove stale air from your room and populate your room with cool clean air. We can accomplish removing of stale air from your room through a exhaust fan. And instead of cooling the whole room, you can go for a table fan which blows air in particular direction, which when directed over your body will cool you. So instead of going for costly and not so eco friendly airconditioner why don't you try out this cheap alternative.