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Up early to work whilst it is a bit cooler, and cool the house by a few degrees for breakfast time, and I am wondering about purge ventilation. Hoping to drop the temp by 3-4 degrees from the 27C it was mainly at last evening. Is there (or has there been) any useful work on the amount of open window needed to cool a house down, or rules of thumb? This morning I have about 200mm x 600mm x 4 area (=.48 sqm) of open skylight (ie 600mm centre hinged open 200mm) upstairs, and a conservatory door open downstairs (=1.5 sqm ish), and it is going to have a noticeable effect. A couple of top windows would not be sufficient. It depends on the ΔT between the inside temperature and the outside temperature, and also the thermal characteristics and size of the house and the materials, decrement delay, thermal emissivity etc, time that it is open etc. Is anyone aware of anything? I am thinking of something as simple as the building regs rules about window area vs floor area for adequate light etc. My 'single data point guestimate' says 0.5-1 sqm of ventilation opening aperture per 100sqm of average storey floor area size should be enough. Probably. Cheers Ferdinand
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Perhaps suitable for the cooling season, does anyone have any systematic thoughts on this? My little list of considerations. Maintainabilty. Ease of use. Automated? Power opening and closing, but also detecting conditions. Security. In sight or hidden? Prevailiing winds. Insects. Interlock with air conditioning? (see - Tenants and District Heating victims cooling the house / flat by opening the window not turning it down) Control systems that are obsolete in less than 10 years - simplicity or switches not whole house systems? To me one idea is skylights easily openable at opposite ends of the prevailing wind direction. Ferdinand
