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Keeping It Cool: Top Tips for Managing
the Temperature at Home

Introduction

When you live in a warm or humid area, you can end up spending a lot of money on keeping your home cool. Installing an air conditioning system can get expensive and, if you have one already, it is expensive to run for extended periods of time. When buying devices to cool your home, you also want to get the best air coolers that are efficient and affordable.

There are many other things you can try to regulate the temperature of your home, which is where we come in. In this short post, we’ve gone through the temperatures you should expect in your home and some of the top tips you can employ to make it comfortable.

The Ideal Home Temperature

When we talk about temperature, we’re talking about the ambient temperature of the rooms in your home. The temperature of this air, whether it’s warm or cold, dictates how bearable the environment in your home will be. As we also said, humidity can make a slightly warm room feel much worse as that warmth will linger.

The typical room temperature sits at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, or 50 degrees Celsius, but the many rooms of your home will have slightly different readings depending on their size, appliances in those rooms, and even the surface materials decorating them.

You can expect a living space to sit at that 70F average if verging slightly on the colder side naturally. Colder again will be your bathroom, where tiled or porcelain surfaces keep the room chilled if no temperature regulation action is taken. In both cases, it’s best to keep these rooms slightly above the standard room temperature.

You might want your bathroom to be even warmer, especially after you’ve showered, and don’t want to suffer a chilly room afterward. That said, be careful with bathroom temperatures as they’re also one of the more humid rooms in your home. Any warmth will stick around for longer and you do not want to unintentionally create a sauna in your attempts at regulating its temperature. Your bedroom can be colder than other rooms since you’re usually wrapped up and unconscious when you’re in there. 

Top Temperature Management Tips

• Insulate Your Home
  Insulation is the foremost means of protecting your home against unwanted temperature changes without using electricity or other costly means. Chances are that your home is already insulated, of course, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have the insulation upgraded or redone to make it even more effective.

  After the initial cost, insulation works for you by keeping exterior temperature out and interior temperature in, all without a constant requirement to pay for electricity like you would with an air conditioner unit.

  That said, the initial cost can become too much if you need a lot of insulation done. Fortunately, you can do it little by little to keep costs manageable while also getting the job done.

• Treat Your Doors and Windows
  Similar to having new insulation installed, your doors and windows act as gateways where temperature bleeds into or out of your home, and so you can treat these to make sure the temperature is properly regulated. Sealants along the borders of your door frames and windows can deteriorate with time, so make sure you top them up to keep the temperature barriers intact.

  You can also cover the windows to add more barriers between the interior of your home and the outside world. Don’t discount the use of curtains when trying to regulate the temperature of your home. You should have curtains already and by opening them, you can let sunlight in for natural heat. If they’re thick enough, you can also use them to keep the cold out by closing them. The same applies to shutters and other window decorations.

• Check Your Ventilation
  Another problem area that undermines the temperature stability of your home is its ventilation system. If your home has air vents, you need to check them. They may be blocked, in which case less air makes its way around your home and causes warm, stagnant environments. Unblocking a vent can be as easy as wielding your favorite vacuum cleaner but for more serious blockages, you may want to hire somebody to clear it for you.

  There can also be leaks in air ducts that lose valuable airflow, resulting in an unevenly regulated temperature where some rooms will be colder or warmer than others for seemingly no reason.