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07-23-2011, 05:17 PM
#51
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Location: Port Lavaca, TX
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Originally Posted by Glassquilt
My ex was stationed at Fort Hood, TX and our apartment had a swamp cooler. It worked very well.
Up here a dehumidifier can work wonders up to a point. The currant heat need AC cause it just to dog-gone hot!
Up here a dehumidifier can work wonders up to a point. The currant heat need AC cause it just to dog-gone hot!
They work better in low humidity.
One in a window will cool a whole room.
The drawback is you have to put water in its little tank
yourself, and every so often, before it will work.
Google "How to Make a Swamp Cooler!
07-23-2011, 05:19 PM
#52
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yes, I ve done seomething similar when I was first married and we had an apt, no a/c living off an air base. I would make ice cubes all day, (had those metal pull trays, lol) kept rubbing alcohol in the fridge. When we went to bed, showered, rubbed down w/ rubbing alch, put the cubes in a shallow basin (so they were spread out), put the basin on a chair at the foot of the bed and put a small table fan behind the basin to blow on low acoss the cubes and up the bed and slept fine all night. sharet
07-23-2011, 11:08 PM
#54
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Location: NW Wa
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just like our swamp cooler we had years ago. We put water and ice cuben it it... it worked very well.
We sold it when we moved to Alaska thinking we wouldn't need it (big Mistake) never seen one since.
ConnieF
We sold it when we moved to Alaska thinking we wouldn't need it (big Mistake) never seen one since.
ConnieF
07-24-2011, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by BluegrassGurl
Well.... how about that!
Thank goodness we do have central air.... but if not....I would be filling up and freezing every empty large container I could put my hands on!
I hope we all get a reprieve soon!
Thank goodness we do have central air.... but if not....I would be filling up and freezing every empty large container I could put my hands on!
I hope we all get a reprieve soon!
07-24-2011, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Prissnboot
I live in Houston and the only time I love the humidity is when I come home from the desert, like Las Vegas. And for you Phoenixites or Phoenixians (or whatever they call people who live there), it doesn't help us to hear "yes, but it's a DRY heat". Hot is hot!
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