It’s only the start of June and it’s hot here in Austin. In the last couple of weeks we have already had a couple of 100 degree days, and the hot part of the year isn’t here yet. Thankfully we have a couple of ways of beating the heat around our house. The best one is the pool in the backyard, nothing is better than going out and splashing around in the water for an hour or two during the heat of the day. Unfortunately our pool is a little sick right now, we’ve had an outbreak of mustard algae, so the chemical treatments to get rid of it preclude swimming at times, but we can usually schedule the chemicals for an off use period. What’s this have to do with being “green”, aside from having to run the filter more than I’d like, not much except it is a great way to cool down.
Speaking of cooling down, have you changed your A/C filter recently? It is the first of the month, and it is recommended that you change the filter on your A/C every month or two. You see as the filter traps more and more dust, it allows less and less air to pass through, causing your A/C to work harder and longer to cool your house, wasting electricity. So go change that dirty filter, while you’re at it, check your smoke detectors too.
