*Works so well **Fastly.Cool** that it only requires daytime operation until high temp and humidity are overnight. It is difficult to get to side filters, but back is easily accessible.*
I'd also like to add that when you plant trees for shade, pay attention to where the sun is going. Get the shade over your house, not over your lawn or vegetables
Good point. So I did a search on dehumidifier without electricity: th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=dehumidifier+without+electricity I'm going to look through those videos (and probably a general internet search as well) to see what solutions are viable. Thanks for pointing that out!
Oh and most Italian homes have what they call a summer kitchen, close to the outside or in a cool cellar under the house and near the garden. The al fresco dining in the summer usually is in an outside place near the summer kitchen. And most houses also have an outside oven, a wood burning oven that can be used to bake, BBQ or pretty much any type of cooking.
Love it! Here in the Midwest, the humidity is so high and water table is too so we do not build on slabs anymore because of mold and the cement wicks up the moisture. Also insulating the walls. Most people do not get the whole cooking outside issue. Good choice. Here I do use ac but a small efficient box does great at night. I know a guy who has a contraption in a freezer box. The solar freeze the water in the box and he has tubes he runs air thru to heat exchange at night. Love the place. Looks great!
I do exactly everything you mentions, yet im on a crawl space......trust me.....it works. 90F degrees outside and only 70 inside. One thing i will mention is cellulose insulation in the walls and attic are a big PLUS along with proper attic venting. You speak my language girl. Im a subscriber now. Thanks!
as an aside, can i just say that your channel has remained true since the beginning - you haven't been swayed by ego, or money, or politics - you do what you do, same as you always have, you only put out good useful content and you ARE a homesteader... not a wannabee homesteader that spends hours making up excuses why they aren't ACTUALLY a homesteader, or a homestead-ee - a yuppy with a large rural property that uses 'homesteader' as a 'hook' to get people to watch their clickbaited costco trip videos. there aren't many channels i continue to watch, but yours is one. thanks for the truly awesome and consistently useful content! you are what youtube is supposed to be about! you are what a christian is supposed to be. you are what a homesteader was and is.
You are TO AWESOME! I NEEEDED THAT today in fact I posted your comment on my FB page...BLESS you for pulling me up!!! heres what i wrote all because of you I love love love it when my YOU TUBE followers SHARE their support and kind thoughts! Here is someone who made my day tonight! WHY? Because AS A FOLLOWER of CHRIST I GET beat down! I get lured..I get frustrated..YES Starry gets upset EVEN!!!It doesn't happen alot...but this week has been one of those weeks. SATAN knows our weaknesses. He finds our CRACKS! And then he works t hem like a sore!!We are human! YET when we stray and go down the wrong path not always is it EASY to look up and LISTEN to GOD!Am I saying something unusual here? IS there anyone else who goes thru this?So...that was my week. Working hard for the channel...losing some focus because of OTHER channels who arent being truthful. THEN getting sucked into talking about it! I usually dont say a word. GOD has taught me well. Why worry. Place it on HIS YOKE! RIGHT? But here I was..worrying and getting upset....wanting to HELP, wanting to SHOUT..WARN people....do HIS WORK I GUESS cause I can do it so much better:) HA!!! Thats how we are ...at least..thats what I struggle with. TRYING to do what I think is right BUT taking it into my own hands!!THATS not even like me...BUT...wait..IM HUMAN!!! Whoooaaaa Starry fall's and skins her knees!NOW a breath of fresh air. Someone who comes along and shares what I have been trying to do. WALK a true life..a real life.. a life that helps other and Glorifies GOD!THATS what matters! PRAISE GOD.And all it took was one person to just tell me..Im doing it right..WE SEE your realness your truth...your integrity!!!THANKS friends for always being there and for keeping it all real for all of us!WE NEED to support each other in positive ways! The negative people, the faksters and fraudsters WE know the end of the story for them. MOVE on and lets do what we need to do. LIVE a fruitful abundant life loving living and sharing and GLORIFYING CHRIST!!!! AMEN!!!!! Hebrews 13:16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to GodHeres the comment!!!.......................
well... to be fair, i'm not religious at all... and the reason, for at least some part, is that most of the 'christians' i've met are the most bigotted, selfish, hypocritical group! but i have read the bible - and the book of mormon and the qu'ran and all sorts of other books, and YOU practice what you preach - kindness, tolerance, helping other people... many so-called christians practice kindness but only if you're white, heterosexual, and just not any OTHER religion... so thank you - won't make me become a 'believer' though :)... anyways, might be my last comment for a bit - i live the cariboo region of british columbia and the whole area is on fire so just shoving stuff in to get ready in case we need to make a hasty exit!
rapunzel eh? I totally agree! Starry is an amazing example of staying true to herself and her way of life. I'm not even going to say if I am religious or not! I love her spirit and smile and she is just so intelligent and so great the way she passionately explains things and her enthusiasm its contagious! Thank you Starry and Mr Hilder. Thank you for sharing your life with us all. Starry your videos really pick me up when things are tough at home, I'm not even a homesteader but any video of yours always lifts my spirit. Bev 😊 xx
I'm moving off the grid,bought a place already set up wind solar and wind power. It's has 21 solar panels and 3 wind turbines,and I'm new to this. The previous owner went over the system with me, the basics,I have alot to learn in a short amount of time.
You are describing my ancient stone house and the other stone houses in this Italian village where I live. My house is about 900 years old and the outside walls are a little more than 2 feet thick, and are made of large solid stones and the cement to hold them together. The cement was added many centuries after these houses were originally built. They built with the dry stone wall methods back then. Anyway, when I had my first killer summer here, my Italian neighbors taught me how to deal with the summer heat. We all open our windows very early in the morning when the air is fresh and cool. A couple of hours later, we close the windows and the shutters where needed (where the sun is facing) and just relax in the cool house until the outside temp goes down again later in the day when we open up the windows again. At first I felt claustrophobic ( I always had AC in the US) but after using a fan near where I sit, I'm OK with it all, haha. My village or borgo as it's called, is one huge thermal mass unit of attached stone homes built under, over and next to each other. Btw, the house stays an easy 20 to 30 degrees cooler than the outside. And on the flip side, as you explained in your video, the stone walls and cotto tile floors maintain the heat all night from a wood burning stove even after it dies out. I'd like to say I knew all this before I bought the house, but sadly I didn't. But I'm smarter now, haha. It's really a great way to live.
I just bought a 6,000 BTU A/C unit for my very small shop office and also for my Toyota Motorhome. it only uses 450Watts and my Solar Panels will cover most of that when I'm on the road. Cool-Living Brand A/C unit (BiMart) $149.00 You guys have done a supurb job...Congrats ! Liked/Subscribed
I have a 12×30 building in the Sierra Blanca desert. It is hot! I have 11 dogs so my doors and windows stay open. I set up a soak pool for the dogs. This is my husband and mine first months of sustainability. No electricity unless we run the generator. Which is not sustainable. We've been off grid since October. We are both low income/fixed income. We spend mostly on the dogs. It doesn't leave much money for us or working our homestead. Water on the metal roof was a great suggestion! The slab is a great suggestion! Thanks everyone!
Great points, Starry. I do have to make sure that even if the world ends that our dishwasher must work... Otherwise, one of us will end up in the compost bin... That woman scares me.
and for those who dont have enough outdoor space to plant a tree there are climbing vines that can cover sunny side of your house....or plant tall growing grasses type of plants...we have zebra grass on south side of our house which will help block some sum against the wall therefore making it cooler...use planters if possible ...bamboo grows tall also....and if your area is too windy for awnings then maybe consider greenhouse shade cloths...they are cheap....6 X 25 foot $50 canadian walmart....allow wind to pass through
In the middle of winter in Australia, sitting around the 30 degrees F, so about 0 celsius. But hubby and I have to impliment some of these things on our tiny house for summer, just planted a peach tree outside our bedroom window that gets the afternoon/evening sun, we also need to put up a couple of outside awnings, we'll eventual build a deck out the back with a roof to keep the sun off that side of the house in the warmer months, I think doing just those couple of things will help a lot. God bless you xo
Gina Ladner. Yes it's winter in Australia now :) we're lucky enough not to have extreme cold weather like in America, so it's about 12 degrees celsius today, will get down to 0 degrees celsius or just below over night. I wish we got snow though :) I love winter.
Ow wow that's freezing, I'd still love it though lol I guess we're pretty lucky in Australia to have pretty moderate weather most of the year, summers can be hard sometimes, when we get a couple of weeks of over 40 degrees celsius.
I am fortunate to live in San Diego near the coast. In winter it gets down to 50 degrees F. In summer 80 degrees F. A few exceptions exist of course, but we have a mediteranean climate here, such as the south of France. We are a cool desert and humidity is a factor from July to September.
I live in So Florida and am still on the grid. To help keep my home cool-er I will take the hose and give a quick spray on the metal roof. The evaporation sucks the heat out. I wanted to put a soaker hose on the roof from the rain water catchment system on a solar pump/ timer but my husband thinks it would look TACKY in our neighborhood. The late afternoon thunderstorm we have every day would refill the catchment I also installed two solar attic fans in the attic
Gina, I was in Picayune for a wedding last October. The weekend was just like any in Northern California, mid 70's, dry, no bugs, light breeze. Then people told me that it had been hot and humid since March and this weather I brought was magical. If I win the Lotto I will buy a house on Hideaway Lake, put in a solar attic fan and let you know if it helps!
90 degrees sounds so nice. I live in the desert...first year I came out to the desert, it hit 127... a/c is necessary for kids and adults in this place.
what i did on another home i built was put a 3 foot culvert 40 feet long leeding up and coming in under my house into a vent in the floor of course i hade to put a drainage system in place to keep water out of it and i had to put a filter in the vent coming into the house to get rid of the musty smell but coming home from work each evening i could cool the house down from 90 degrees down to 65 degrees in 30 minuts or less ...i intend on doing that here to as soon as i can line up some culvert pipe
Starry I just absolutely LOVE you!!! Your zest for life and helping others is so genuine it literally glows from you! Thank you for sharing, thank you for caring, thank you for being my sister in Christ (just how I believe all of us were meant to live as children of God) and mostly thank you for just being YOU! May the Lord continue to bless you and Mr. Hilder always! 💟✝️💟✝️💟
a few years back I'd "air conditioned" my 12ft electric runabout boat. small 12v pump (0.3A) cycling lake water through a large automotive heater core, two 4.5" computer fans pulling air through it (0.35A each) to blow cooled air right into the cabin/seats. it circulated about 1.5 gpm water, about 90 cfm of air flow, very cool for 1A @ 12v. downside, a regular sized room like 13x15x8ft ceiling, it'd only cycle that much space 4x per hour. if it wasn't really well insulated it'd never keep up! (boat cabin area was only 30-40 cubic foot max).
Best quote I've ever heard and if u think about it long enough, u know it's sadly true; "People want to see do good...but never better than them, never forget that son." Rock on woman👍👍
Well she doesn't speak to the subject. Doesn't understand enough to mention what their conditions are... Lots of homes on slabs in Florida, can't keep them under 80... So humid. Feel free to open it up at night. I tried camping in December just north of Clearwater. 80 degrees and 100% humidity (foggy!) so she doesn't understand her advantages.
You are so pretty, sweet, and upbeat! So glad I found your channel. And I love how you call your husband Mr. Hilder. You are adorable! I'm a born-again believer too! God bless you and your family!
What a great idea & I love your floor :) When we visited a historical farm, they had no electricity; however it was very comfortable inside on a 95 degree day and there was no open windows. They had a kitchen screen door that was open for guests, but the rest of the windows & doors were closed. They had several huge old shade trees in the yard to help cool the house, but what really cools old homes like that is that they are 2-3 stories high with 18" thick timber walls (not sure what the filler material was back in the 17-1800s in America, but I remember mentioning it to the women who were in the kitchen in full length dresses and petticoats who were not sweating. It was warmer upstairs but not overwhelmingly hot. The main floor stays at least 20 degrees cooler. The doors had an open top on very tall doors that allowed for air breeze to flow through the house and by keeping the windows closed during the day it shut out the humidity. I used that same application in my lil homestead house with the north side in shade by a huge maple, the south of the house is exposed to the southside and I have a southern exposure sunroom & lots of windows, but during hot summer days I use blinds flipped to reflect not absorb. We do have air conditioning but I prefer not to run it when I can because it gives me sinus problems. So yea, your tip to open up at night...then close it in the day and use blinds & shades works great....don't be tempted to open it up because all that hot air comes in and ruins it with humidity. I think if I built a new house I'd employ the thick wall idea if I could afford it.
Hi The Hilders, I love your energy and enthusiasm! Here in the UK we tend to get temperate weather, not very cold, not very hot. However today has been almost 90 and I'm a sweaty mess. The only cool place is on my car, burning gas, with the air con on max. No sleep tonight, I guess...
Some good ideas, sure wish we could be air cond. free here in South Carolina! When it's 75-80 at night with high humidity, we just can't open the doors & windows, we'd have mold everywhere over time. Of course our winters are superb. And we have a crazy, long growing season. I'm about to plant round two of corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc as the first prolific harvests are complete. There are good & bad things about all areas! Edited to add - we do have a silver metal roof with upgraded attic & wall insulation - and that helps A LOT here in the hotter climates. Something to consider if you are building or replacing your roof.
Best video ever Starry! I loved this. I do think the effectiveness of these techniques have to do with location, but overall they are great to implement even as a cost saver. Thanks for sharing!
+ Darlene Smith . Have you seen SUPER ADIBE? look up Cal Earth Super Adobe on line, Fire proof tornado proof warmer in winter cooler in summer Earthquake proof (9.2 in Nepal EVERYTHING but the super adobes at the orphanage fell) & they didn't even crack. Awesome structures, we have super adobe & earthship as designs for our farm, went to TAOS New Mexico years ago to see the first Earth ship community, I agree they are just awesome.
NW Wyoming... 5000ft elevation... no air conditioner... ground level... open up at night and pull that cool night air through with fans then close it up in the morning. It's 2pm and it's 86deg outside... but it's 70deg inside. Yup, it works.
It truly works =) My ex father n law done that very thing and it is crazy how much difference it makes.... I wasnt able to but I did design my home to have max air flow - the placement of the windows and using transoms etc.... it is like a wind tunnel lol HUGE Difference
I agree with everything you do. The Great Depression was awful, so if the stocks crash again you don't have to worry, because you have everything you need without needing others.
These ideas work good for low humidity areas. If you live in the deep south like I do (Florida) swamp coolers and other methods of cooling that work in low humidity environments don't work here. Air conditioning "conditions" the air by removing the humidity and increasing the comfort level. 80 degrees at 30% humidity feels much better than 80 degrees at 90% humidity.
We TOTALLY understand Thermal mass here in Alaska! The rocks on the wood stove are great advice...we've done it for years! We have natures air conditioning here :)
When we lived on the river, we cut ice in the winter, and then stored it in our ice house, then used it for our refrigeration. The ice was stacked along the walls, along with saw dust. We were able to keep all our perishables fresh, including our root crops. Same concept! :)
My mom used to try to sneak it into her minestrone and veggie soup - nope I knew what that round wagon wheel looking stuff was lol If you watched the video of the Friday evening that everyone went to "Crackle" Barrel before the conference in May, Starry tried the fried okra - her look was priceless !!! so I just had to send her the 2 envelopes of okra that I had (and would never use) :) :) Starry - will you be at the one in VA in October ?
You can also incorperate a heat exchange pvc pipe concrete stagged or parralell core for water circulater for cooling in frost free states ..Or build in your home partly submergef where the landscape is sloped
Thanks for the infro; always a pleasure learning from you... I meet a guy that has a root cellar under his home and placed a fan at the bottom of the steps to shoot the air up into the house and this keeps his house cool in the summer. In the Winter he also has fans set up near his cook stove and fireplace in his bed room to shoot the air into the rest of the house. I also was reading about soap stone that holds heat better then any other stone; placing it near a fluted aluminum radiator will increase the heat. Soap stone is also used as grills because it is said that food doesn't stick to it; check out baking ovens that use wood the slabs are soap stone. In Alaska they put tents over the beds and have their dogs sleep under the bed to keep warm. I always wondered why beds were so high; when people were under five feet; this was the reason. Also; putting curtains around the bed with a top will keep you warm too. If you don't have a tent; run a rope over your bed from wall to wall and use a blanket or tarp to make a quick tent. If you have a storm and the electric goes off you can use pottery to heat up and use this as a heat source to keep warm. Be very careful about the clay pot heaters; only use beeswax candles and don't leave unattended. The heat can cause the paraffin little ones to ignite and start a fire. Thanks again for all your hard work. You are a wealth of information and you may save someones life someday with all you have been teaching all of us. So God Bless and stay safe girl.
Great video! I was trying to figure out who that man in the picture was over your right shoulder, then all of the sudden I saw a quiet Mr. Hilder sitting on the sofa. I was having a squirrel distraction moment. Lol
Even if you are *not* living off-grid, but are trying to be more sustainable with your energy use, you can implement some of these ideas. Some more ideas are: 1) Cook with your crock pot *outside* in summer. I plug mine in on my front porch, and let it cook out there all day. 2) Don't use your oven. My mom puts a large toaster oven on her screened porch and cooks out there all summer--brownies, meat, fish, anything! 3) Use a grill/cook elsewhere. My pool has a gas grill that all members can use for free! Other families don't take advantage of this (too snooty.) But many summer evenings, I bring our own food to the pool and we grill there, and eat at the pool, and leave all the mess behind, and come home to a COOL house! Many local parks also have grills, and we've collected firewood at the park (legal here) and cooked on the grills at the park for free! 4) Have one "cold food" dinner per week. This doesn't have to mean only salad, although tuna salad with lots of veggies is great. But it can also mean things like a bread and cheese and fruit tray, or European-style muesli or other cold food items. Nothing wrong with a cold dinner in the heat of summer! 5) Sleep in the basement or outside. If possible, move your sleeping area in the summer. Why sweat it out on the top floor of your house, if the lower level is nice and cool? Or if you have a screened porch? Just move things outside. "Sleeping porches" used to be a real thing. 6) Close off rooms of your house that aren't being used. You have to be careful about this, because of air-flow issues. But sometimes you can judiciously close off parts of the house that don't need as much A/C. Just make sure moisture levels stay OK in there. 7) Use fans. They really do help, and they use exponentially less energy, even if you use them 24 hours a day.
Great advice, we live in a century home that has a stone basement(huge rocks) open the hatch to outside and open the door to inside the house and presto free air conditioning! Love your videos Starry & Mr Hilder of course!
i designed my house based on ancient designs - 2ft overhangs around the house which block out the hot summer sun, but allow the winter sun into the house when the sun is low... lots of insulation in the attic.... windows open at night, and closed during the day. the basement is mostly underground so is actually uncomfortably cool... i'm a zone 4 at 3700ft but the summers are HOT. however if i'm really hot, i just go jump in the lake. i have 16 6v 440amp batteries with a 3kw wind turbine (which is almost always going) plus 2kw of solar... and another 2400w system that powers my greenhouse... and a 17kw generator that kicks in if the batteries are drained (not so far) is it over kill? sure... but i've been adding to it for years, it wasn't purchased all at once, plus i want to make sure i'm good for just about anything... part of it though is to be stingy with your usage regardless of how much you generate.... would have done a grid tie, but the hydro company makes it so difficult and expensive to do it, i just went totally offgrid. unless you're willing to be stingy stingy stingy with your power, don't bother going alternative... the best energy isn't alternative, it's energy that isn't spent at all.
Hi Starry just left a comment and went to check if everything was correct and the comment was gone...lol so wanted to say hi and i love you and rhanks so very much for your videos i always enjoy them,,, bless you and so glad your feeling better... blessings!!!!
There is a basement house not for from where I live that was built in 1970, the front of the house faces East and has a lot of windows and the 6' back of the house has top windows and has ran off solar from day one, but has been updated to newer panels. I asked David (The Great Grand Son who lives there today) what was the temp in his house at 3pm and he said 60deg. it was 101deg. outside that day. This is why I am drafting out a Home like yours Starry and David's next door to me ? Thanks GREAT VEDIO Prayers and Blessings Paul & Susan North Georgia
Thank you for sharing. I would recommend to you and others to use water with fan ( little energy ) beside what you are doing. Use your garden to cool your self naturally by surrounding your self with covered water fall with big fan. I hope i explained the point . If not i will show you example.
plant fruit trees, so true but we just let our little volunteer tree grow since the old maple had to go, it was 1/3dead, yet withstood 70 mile an hour storms! it was a good tree! I miss it, but it made room for more garden which is not unimportant if you only have 1/4 of an acre always pros and cons I love that concrete floor you got!!!!!
though it would look really weird in the states, look into a Yakhchāl. they use thermal mass to accomplish the same thing, and your entire house can be built around it.
I wish we could open doors and windows at night but here in arkansas in the summer it doesn't cool down much at night and it would get the house all humid and sticky feeling like it is outside. :(
Emilee Crowder I wondered how cool it got for them in Idaho. I've tried opening the windows at night here in kansas, but when the lows are in the upper 70's to low 80's at night and humid, it doesn't help cool the house much
excellent video very informative and really efficient in energy cost ,just need to be done before construction.in third world countries some people use innexpensive way to cool down their home with an array of cone shape end of plastic bottle inside the wall and when the air pass inside the venturi effect cause by the smaller diameter of the inside versus the outside is cooling the air by lowering the pressure you can drop the temp by 5 to 8 degree celsius not bad for a cheap air conditionning. You can also use an roman style with pipe in the ground at least 2 or 3 feet deep to cool the air coming inside and put the exhaust in your house and the beauty of this method is it s work in the winter to heat up and in the summer to cool down.ancient civilisation who had not acces to electricity found various ingenious way to cool their home .we need to look in the past to live a sustaimable life off grid . Thanks for all the knowledge you share with us ,love you .God bless you
Luvin' these COOL Starry tips on how to stay cool in the heat of SUMMER!!! When the rains arrive, they cool us down no problem, but when they leave(after 3 or 4 days of constant rainshowers), the Sun comes out and the highest it has gotten here is 33°C, funny thing though, not as hot as in the coastal lowlands or the southeast but still if a costeño comes up here on the central plateau, they'll be wearing sweaters in Summer, they say its so chilly up here! lol....thumbs up and keep being IRIE pretty lady! :)
Starry genius! I do wonder how these ideas haven't crossed people's minds. They seem common sense to me. Here's another tip: Cook pizza in 400F oven on 90F humid day?? Not so smart. Make dinners that need an oven in the winter. Ovens in winter double as another heat source.
its about 50 degrees in my house this morning lol but we do the same doors and windows open at night and shut the sun out during the day. We also live in maine so it dont get real hot where we live ..Love all your vids
I love your energy Starry! Thanks for sharing this info. I tell ya, its still 80-85 degrees in Central Texas at night--OIY! The heat is horrible. BUT I am not off grid and we are in a built home (totally on grid right now) with AC and I am thankful for it in the summer. Our house is for sale and looking forward to being on our homestead/farm soon. It probably will not be totally off grid, but I sure want to do SOME things DIFFERENTLY than now! And isn't that what it's all about?! :) Do what you can do with what you have, build on it, add/change things as you go to become more self sustaining/reliant. I just started my youtube channel to document out journey (so fun!) but I am just learning it, and it's a challenge for me for some reason. I can't wait to get it off of private mode and get up and running!
If you build your own house go with a monolithic dome. No other design (within reasonable cost) is as energy efficient. Fire proof, hurricane proof, tornado proof, earthquake proof, bullet proof. Equivalent to better than R-60 + thermal flywheel effect
Maybe I misunderstood, but the concept sounds more like “benefits of building a house on a slab - aka, heat sinks help”... either way, I think it’s really cool you’re working with the idea of zero electricity being a viable option. I see a lot of prepper types that build these whole set ups with the idea that they’ll be able to always get more gas for their petrol powered generators... so it’s good to see that someone’s thought of the possibility there might just not be power anymore. ^.^
90F=32C, Girl! it's not that hot really~ In Australia, we have much harsher weather in summer! the sunlight could bake dry my flowers and me! and high UV index.... which cause skin cancer :(
Lee Lee thats fo sure, we're in Queensland we get high 30's to low 40's here over Summer, not sure what that is in F degrees, air con is a must but our Solar pays for it, so our on grid power bill is not thru the roof.. cant grow too much here in Summer either, it just dries out from the heat
100F+ = 38C+, that's HOT, I found if the temperature get higher than 32 or 33C, it's hot, probably because the air all heated up too! does not like that :(
The air conditioner is still necessary depends on your location if you have a nice mountain location that is great But what if drought season coming, no rain trees leaves are drying scourging hot and fire sparks everywhere! That's when smog comes in! all air pollution particle like pm.2.5 pm.10 that smaller than your red blood cells enter your house your environment and lastly your body your family! ONLY Then you will gratefully to have airconditioner system.
good video Starry.....learned a lot! Not that I will ever be necessarily a total off grid prepper....but workiing that way for my area best I can legally....we'll see.
i have a 1500 gallon sistern in my fullsized rotcellar that gets filled about every 2-3 wks.that seems to keep the house fairly comfy in central ND.in the summer .just leave the dooor open an we get hydracooled;so to say.btw,nice deer racks on the walls.good hunting to youall this fall.thnks 4 the vid. naturalone.
Some really good tips. Thanks for posting your video. You would die here in Atlanta without air conditioning. We didn't have an air conditioner when I was growing up(Memphis). Landscaping, building etc helped some but IT WAS MISERABLE without air conditioning. I would do without electricity in every other way but would use all my electricity I did have for my air conditioner. No electricity for other things- kerosene freezer/fridge, wood-stove and hand crank washing machine(Thanks to Lehman's).
ok . well in some places it's 83 for a low , then not until 5 am , then 93 for a high . with a heat index of 105 . it does not " cool" off for 7 months .
Great tips! I love your positive manner, as always. It was super neat to actually see how much cooler the inside of your house was than the outside. Right now, I'm renting as I have been moving around, following the jobs. When I eventually settle down, I hope to help build (I definitely want an expert to lead me) an earthship on a nice piece of acreage.
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*Works so well **Fastly.Cool** that it only requires daytime operation until high temp and humidity are overnight. It is difficult to get to side filters, but back is easily accessible.*
I'd also like to add that when you plant trees for shade, pay attention to where the sun is going. Get the shade over your house, not over your lawn or vegetables
90 degrees sounds wonderfully cool and comfortable. What a nice mild day.
Love the setup, but that ain't gonna get it down south when it's 98 in the shade with 900% humidity.
Good point. So I did a search on dehumidifier without electricity: th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=dehumidifier+without+electricity
I'm going to look through those videos (and probably a general internet search as well) to see what solutions are viable. Thanks for pointing that out!
Yup
Oh and most Italian homes have what they call a summer kitchen, close to the outside or in a cool cellar under the house and near the garden. The al fresco dining in the summer usually is in an outside place near the summer kitchen. And most houses also have an outside oven, a wood burning oven that can be used to bake, BBQ or pretty much any type of cooking.
Love it! Here in the Midwest, the humidity is so high and water table is too so we do not build on slabs anymore because of mold and the cement wicks up the moisture. Also insulating the walls. Most people do not get the whole cooking outside issue. Good choice. Here I do use ac but a small efficient box does great at night. I know a guy who has a contraption in a freezer box. The solar freeze the water in the box and he has tubes he runs air thru to heat exchange at night. Love the place. Looks great!
I do exactly everything you mentions, yet im on a crawl space......trust me.....it works. 90F degrees outside and only 70 inside. One thing i will mention is cellulose insulation in the walls and attic are a big PLUS along with proper attic venting. You speak my language girl. Im a subscriber now. Thanks!
as an aside, can i just say that your channel has remained true since the beginning - you haven't been swayed by ego, or money, or politics - you do what you do, same as you always have, you only put out good useful content and you ARE a homesteader... not a wannabee homesteader that spends hours making up excuses why they aren't ACTUALLY a homesteader, or a homestead-ee - a yuppy with a large rural property that uses 'homesteader' as a 'hook' to get people to watch their clickbaited costco trip videos. there aren't many channels i continue to watch, but yours is one. thanks for the truly awesome and consistently useful content! you are what youtube is supposed to be about! you are what a christian is supposed to be. you are what a homesteader was and is.
You are TO AWESOME! I NEEEDED THAT today in fact I posted your comment on my FB page...BLESS you for pulling me up!!!
heres what i wrote all because of you
I love love love it when my YOU TUBE followers SHARE their support and kind thoughts!
Here is someone who made my day tonight!
WHY?
Because AS A FOLLOWER of CHRIST I GET beat down! I get lured..I get frustrated..YES Starry gets upset EVEN!!!It doesn't happen alot...but this week has been one of those weeks.
SATAN knows our weaknesses. He finds our CRACKS! And then he works t hem like a sore!!We are human! YET when we stray and go down the wrong path not always is it EASY to look up and LISTEN to GOD!Am I saying something unusual here? IS there anyone else who goes thru this?So...that was my week. Working hard for the channel...losing some focus because of OTHER channels who arent being truthful. THEN getting sucked into talking about it! I usually dont say a word. GOD has taught me well. Why worry. Place it on HIS YOKE! RIGHT?
But here I was..worrying and getting upset....wanting to HELP, wanting to SHOUT..WARN people....do HIS WORK I GUESS cause I can do it so much better:)
HA!!!
Thats how we are ...at least..thats what I struggle with. TRYING to do what I think is right BUT taking it into my own hands!!THATS not even like me...BUT...wait..IM HUMAN!!!
Whoooaaaa Starry fall's and skins her knees!NOW a breath of fresh air. Someone who comes along and shares what I have been trying to do. WALK a true life..a real life.. a life that helps other and Glorifies GOD!THATS what matters! PRAISE GOD.And all it took was one person to just tell me..Im doing it right..WE SEE your realness your truth...your integrity!!!THANKS friends for always being there and for keeping it all real for all of us!WE NEED to support each other in positive ways! The negative people, the faksters and fraudsters WE know the end of the story for them. MOVE on and lets do what we need to do. LIVE a fruitful abundant life loving living and sharing and GLORIFYING CHRIST!!!!
AMEN!!!!!
Hebrews 13:16
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to GodHeres the comment!!!.......................
well... to be fair, i'm not religious at all... and the reason, for at least some part, is that most of the 'christians' i've met are the most bigotted, selfish, hypocritical group! but i have read the bible - and the book of mormon and the qu'ran and all sorts of other books, and YOU practice what you preach - kindness, tolerance, helping other people... many so-called christians practice kindness but only if you're white, heterosexual, and just not any OTHER religion... so thank you - won't make me become a 'believer' though :)... anyways, might be my last comment for a bit - i live the cariboo region of british columbia and the whole area is on fire so just shoving stuff in to get ready in case we need to make a hasty exit!
rapunzel eh? I totally agree! Starry is an amazing example of staying true to herself and her way of life. I'm not even going to say if I am religious or not! I love her spirit and smile and she is just so intelligent and so great the way she passionately explains things and her enthusiasm its contagious! Thank you Starry and Mr Hilder. Thank you for sharing your life with us all. Starry your videos really pick me up when things are tough at home, I'm not even a homesteader but any video of yours always lifts my spirit. Bev 😊 xx
this world needs more ppl like you
I'm moving off the grid,bought a place already set up wind solar and wind power.
It's has 21 solar panels and 3 wind turbines,and I'm new to this.
The previous owner went over the system with me, the basics,I have alot to learn in a short amount of time.
Yeah... I'm in Ga. I'm staying in A/C till Jesus comes back 😘
Yea he is coming back!
@enochian seven That was the first time he came, silly.
the Earthship design kicks it up a notch, keeping uber cool in NM, I'm super inspired
You are describing my ancient stone house and the other stone houses in this Italian village where I live. My house is about 900 years old and the outside walls are a little more than 2 feet thick, and are made of large solid stones and the cement to hold them together. The cement was added many centuries after these houses were originally built. They built with the dry stone wall methods back then. Anyway, when I had my first killer summer here, my Italian neighbors taught me how to deal with the summer heat. We all open our windows very early in the morning when the air is fresh and cool. A couple of hours later, we close the windows and the shutters where needed (where the sun is facing) and just relax in the cool house until the outside temp goes down again later in the day when we open up the windows again. At first I felt claustrophobic ( I always had AC in the US) but after using a fan near where I sit, I'm OK with it all, haha. My village or borgo as it's called, is one huge thermal mass unit of attached stone homes built under, over and next to each other. Btw, the house stays an easy 20 to 30 degrees cooler than the outside. And on the flip side, as you explained in your video, the stone walls and cotto tile floors maintain the heat all night from a wood burning stove even after it dies out. I'd like to say I knew all this before I bought the house, but sadly I didn't. But I'm smarter now, haha. It's really a great way to live.
Sounds like our ancestors knew more than we think they did.
Angel Decoded people now are smart....just dont give a dam and are selfish. ..
I just bought a 6,000 BTU A/C unit for my very small shop office and also for my Toyota Motorhome. it only uses 450Watts and my Solar Panels will cover most of that when I'm on the road. Cool-Living Brand A/C unit (BiMart) $149.00
You guys have done a supurb job...Congrats ! Liked/Subscribed
I have a 12×30 building in the Sierra Blanca desert. It is hot! I have 11 dogs so my doors and windows stay open. I set up a soak pool for the dogs. This is my husband and mine first months of sustainability. No electricity unless we run the generator. Which is not sustainable. We've been off grid since October. We are both low income/fixed income. We spend mostly on the dogs. It doesn't leave much money for us or working our homestead. Water on the metal roof was a great suggestion! The slab is a great suggestion! Thanks everyone!
Great points, Starry. I do have to make sure that even if the world ends that our dishwasher must work... Otherwise, one of us will end up in the compost bin... That woman scares me.
and for those who dont have enough outdoor space to plant a tree there are climbing vines that can cover sunny side of your house....or plant tall growing grasses type of plants...we have zebra grass on south side of our house which will help block some sum against the wall therefore making it cooler...use planters if possible ...bamboo grows tall also....and if your area is too windy for awnings then maybe consider greenhouse shade cloths...they are cheap....6 X 25 foot $50 canadian walmart....allow wind to pass through
When is this girl going to teach like this on PBS? Excellent presence and presentation.
In the middle of winter in Australia, sitting around the 30 degrees F, so about 0 celsius. But hubby and I have to impliment some of these things on our tiny house for summer, just planted a peach tree outside our bedroom window that gets the afternoon/evening sun, we also need to put up a couple of outside awnings, we'll eventual build a deck out the back with a roof to keep the sun off that side of the house in the warmer months, I think doing just those couple of things will help a lot. God bless you xo
Anita Cusolito it's winter in Australia now?
Gina Ladner. Yes it's winter in Australia now :) we're lucky enough not to have extreme cold weather like in America, so it's about 12 degrees celsius today, will get down to 0 degrees celsius or just below over night. I wish we got snow though :) I love winter.
where I am in America it can down to -30F/-34.4 c. I'm pretty sure Starry can too.
Ow wow that's freezing, I'd still love it though lol I guess we're pretty lucky in Australia to have pretty moderate weather most of the year, summers can be hard sometimes, when we get a couple of weeks of over 40 degrees celsius.
I am fortunate to live in San Diego near the coast. In winter it gets down to 50 degrees F. In summer 80 degrees F. A few exceptions exist of course, but we have a mediteranean climate here, such as the south of France. We are a cool desert and humidity is a factor from July to September.
I lived on my boat here in Maine for 4 years. I never had a problem keeping the bilge pump batteries charged.
Piece of mind.
I live in So Florida and am still on the grid. To help keep my home cool-er I will take the hose and give a quick spray on the metal roof. The evaporation sucks the heat out. I wanted to put a soaker hose on the roof from the rain water catchment system on a solar pump/ timer but my husband thinks it would look TACKY in our neighborhood. The late afternoon thunderstorm we have every day would refill the catchment
I also installed two solar attic fans in the attic
When I lived in so fl, the terrazzo floors would b nice and cool in summer.
nice but when even water is off grid it can be water consuming and you may want to keep water for plant growing
we've got water coming out of our ears here in Florida
aries37 I'm in South Mississippi. Does the solar attic fans help?
Gina, I was in Picayune for a wedding last October. The weekend was just like any in Northern California, mid 70's, dry, no bugs, light breeze.
Then people told me that it had been hot and humid since March and this weather I brought was magical. If I win the Lotto I will buy a house on Hideaway Lake, put in a solar attic fan and let you know if it helps!
90 degrees sounds so nice. I live in the desert...first year I came out to the desert, it hit 127... a/c is necessary for kids and adults in this place.
I only use convection and induction for cooking and frying. Energy efficient. Superb temperature control. Does not heat up the house.
32 degrees celsius, I wish it got that cool during our outback Australian 6 summer months.
what i did on another home i built was put a 3 foot culvert 40 feet long leeding up and coming in under my house into a vent in the floor of course i hade to put a drainage system in place to keep water out of it and i had to put a filter in the vent coming into the house to get rid of the musty smell but coming home from work each evening i could cool the house down from 90 degrees down to 65 degrees in 30 minuts or less ...i intend on doing that here to as soon as i can line up some culvert pipe
this girl knows what she,s talking about very coool well done guys!
ahhh thank you for that! We do live the life here..no BS!!!
Starry I just absolutely LOVE you!!! Your zest for life and helping others is so genuine it literally glows from you! Thank you for sharing, thank you for caring, thank you for being my sister in Christ (just how I believe all of us were meant to live as children of God) and mostly thank you for just being YOU! May the Lord continue to bless you and Mr. Hilder always! 💟✝️💟✝️💟
ahhh love you for that sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a few years back I'd "air conditioned" my 12ft electric runabout boat. small 12v pump (0.3A) cycling lake water through a large automotive heater core, two 4.5" computer fans pulling air through it (0.35A each) to blow cooled air right into the cabin/seats. it circulated about 1.5 gpm water, about 90 cfm of air flow, very cool for 1A @ 12v. downside, a regular sized room like 13x15x8ft ceiling, it'd only cycle that much space 4x per hour. if it wasn't really well insulated it'd never keep up! (boat cabin area was only 30-40 cubic foot max).
Love your comments. You are an inspiration!!! And so is Mr. Hilder!
I like how the husband sits on the couch thinking to himself, I wonder where me and my dog can move next.
What kind of mean spirited person gives this sweet kind hearted lady a thumbs down? They must be pretty miserable in their own lives. tsk tsk.
SB Hamby someone who works owns and electric company. ..a troll? same kind of idiot who protests the wall. ..
SB Hamby. Maybe one of the giant rip off energy companies.
They were jealous
Best quote I've ever heard and if u think about it long enough, u know it's sadly true; "People want to see do good...but never better than them, never forget that son." Rock on woman👍👍
Well she doesn't speak to the subject. Doesn't understand enough to mention what their conditions are... Lots of homes on slabs in Florida, can't keep them under 80... So humid. Feel free to open it up at night. I tried camping in December just north of Clearwater. 80 degrees and 100% humidity (foggy!) so she doesn't understand her advantages.
You are so pretty, sweet, and upbeat! So glad I found your channel. And I love how you call your husband Mr. Hilder. You are adorable! I'm a born-again believer too! God bless you and your family!
What a great idea & I love your floor :) When we visited a historical farm, they had no electricity; however it was very comfortable inside on a 95 degree day and there was no open windows. They had a kitchen screen door that was open for guests, but the rest of the windows & doors were closed. They had several huge old shade trees in the yard to help cool the house, but what really cools old homes like that is that they are 2-3 stories high with 18" thick timber walls (not sure what the filler material was back in the 17-1800s in America, but I remember mentioning it to the women who were in the kitchen in full length dresses and petticoats who were not sweating. It was warmer upstairs but not overwhelmingly hot. The main floor stays at least 20 degrees cooler. The doors had an open top on very tall doors that allowed for air breeze to flow through the house and by keeping the windows closed during the day it shut out the humidity. I used that same application in my lil homestead house with the north side in shade by a huge maple, the south of the house is exposed to the southside and I have a southern exposure sunroom & lots of windows, but during hot summer days I use blinds flipped to reflect not absorb. We do have air conditioning but I prefer not to run it when I can because it gives me sinus problems. So yea, your tip to open up at night...then close it in the day and use blinds & shades works great....don't be tempted to open it up because all that hot air comes in and ruins it with humidity. I think if I built a new house I'd employ the thick wall idea if I could afford it.
Hi The Hilders, I love your energy and enthusiasm! Here in the UK we tend to get temperate weather, not very cold, not very hot. However today has been almost 90 and I'm a sweaty mess. The only cool place is on my car, burning gas, with the air con on max. No sleep tonight, I guess...
AH STARRY! ITS YOU! OH HOW I MISSED YOU GIRL, THIS IS JODENE, I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU THE OTHER DAY. GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK, THIS IS SO AWLSOME!
The naked guy in the background is goals for my husband lol. He cant wait to be shirtless all the time especially in my videos. I love your videos!
Great message Starry. I'm glad you are doing well. God has truly blessed you and Mr Hilder.
I like my off grid place!
Some good ideas, sure wish we could be air cond. free here in South Carolina! When it's 75-80 at night with high humidity, we just can't open the doors & windows, we'd have mold everywhere over time. Of course our winters are superb. And we have a crazy, long growing season. I'm about to plant round two of corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc as the first prolific harvests are complete. There are good & bad things about all areas! Edited to add - we do have a silver metal roof with upgraded attic & wall insulation - and that helps A LOT here in the hotter climates. Something to consider if you are building or replacing your roof.
Best video ever Starry! I loved this. I do think the effectiveness of these techniques have to do with location, but overall they are great to implement even as a cost saver. Thanks for sharing!
have you seen earthships?
+ Darlene Smith . Have you seen SUPER ADIBE? look up Cal Earth Super Adobe on line,
Fire proof
tornado proof
warmer in winter
cooler in summer
Earthquake proof (9.2 in Nepal EVERYTHING but the super adobes at the orphanage fell) & they didn't even crack. Awesome structures, we have super adobe & earthship as designs for our farm, went to TAOS New Mexico years ago to see the first Earth ship community, I agree they are just awesome.
yeah, they look great!
NW Wyoming... 5000ft elevation... no air conditioner... ground level... open up at night and pull that cool night air through with fans then close it up in the morning. It's 2pm and it's 86deg outside... but it's 70deg inside. Yup, it works.
90s isn't scorching! It's beautiful and bone warming!
great video. it is wonderful to have a home that is so cool and you don't even use an air conditioner, love, love love it
It truly works =) My ex father n law done that very thing and it is crazy how much difference it makes.... I wasnt able to but I did design my home to have max air flow - the placement of the windows and using transoms etc.... it is like a wind tunnel lol HUGE Difference
I agree with everything you do. The Great Depression was awful, so if the stocks crash again you don't have to worry, because you have everything you need without needing others.
I really like how you show and tell your story, exsplanation is very good. I'm right with you on this subject.☺
Thank you:))))
Been off grid for years now we love it and we run ac ..great video
It is all about finding the best land to homestead, one must educate themselves and then find the right spot like you all did.
These ideas work good for low humidity areas. If you live in the deep south like I do (Florida) swamp coolers and other methods of cooling that work in low humidity environments don't work here. Air conditioning "conditions" the air by removing the humidity and increasing the comfort level. 80 degrees at 30% humidity feels much better than 80 degrees at 90% humidity.
We TOTALLY understand Thermal mass here in Alaska! The rocks on the wood stove are great advice...we've done it for years! We have natures air conditioning here :)
YESSSS i wish more people understood the concept it is a MUSt off the grid!!!
When we lived on the river, we cut ice in the winter, and then stored it in our ice house, then used it for our refrigeration. The ice was stacked along the walls, along with saw dust. We were able to keep all our perishables fresh, including our root crops. Same concept! :)
Love the inside of your home :) :) At our age we aren't going to go "off grid" but enjoy watching you and Mr. Hilder :) :)
Thank you dear..seems i got a little okra in the mail the other day..someone trying to convert me??
hahaha not me - I don't like the stuff !!!!
My mom used to try to sneak it into her minestrone and veggie soup - nope I knew what that round wagon wheel looking stuff was lol If you watched the video of the Friday evening that everyone went to "Crackle" Barrel before the conference in May, Starry tried the fried okra - her look was priceless !!! so I just had to send her the 2 envelopes of okra that I had (and would never use) :) :) Starry - will you be at the one in VA in October ?
You can also incorperate a heat exchange pvc pipe concrete stagged or parralell core for water circulater for cooling in frost free states ..Or build in your home partly submergef where the landscape is sloped
thinking outside the box..im always forgetting to do so..thanks starring for the reminder and thank to you both mr. hilder for all your great videos..
Thanks for the infro; always a pleasure learning from you... I meet a guy that has a root cellar under his home and placed a fan at the bottom of the steps to shoot the air up into the house and this keeps his house cool in the summer. In the Winter he also has fans set up near his cook stove and fireplace in his bed room to shoot the air into the rest of the house. I also was reading about soap stone that holds heat better then any other stone; placing it near a fluted aluminum radiator will increase the heat. Soap stone is also used as grills because it is said that food doesn't stick to it; check out baking ovens that use wood the slabs are soap stone. In Alaska they put tents over the beds and have their dogs sleep under the bed to keep warm. I always wondered why beds were so high; when people were under five feet; this was the reason. Also; putting curtains around the bed with a top will keep you warm too. If you don't have a tent; run a rope over your bed from wall to wall and use a blanket or tarp to make a quick tent. If you have a storm and the electric goes off you can use pottery to heat up and use this as a heat source to keep warm. Be very careful about the clay pot heaters; only use beeswax candles and don't leave unattended. The heat can cause the paraffin little ones to ignite and start a fire. Thanks again for all your hard work. You are a wealth of information and you may save someones life someday with all you have been teaching all of us. So God Bless and stay safe girl.
Your house is so smartly designed and so very GROOVY!!!!!
I love the way y'all think : )
Great video! I was trying to figure out who that man in the picture was over your right shoulder, then all of the sudden I saw a quiet Mr. Hilder sitting on the sofa. I was having a squirrel distraction moment. Lol
Even if you are *not* living off-grid, but are trying to be more sustainable with your energy use, you can implement some of these ideas. Some more ideas are:
1) Cook with your crock pot *outside* in summer. I plug mine in on my front porch, and let it cook out there all day.
2) Don't use your oven. My mom puts a large toaster oven on her screened porch and cooks out there all summer--brownies, meat, fish, anything!
3) Use a grill/cook elsewhere. My pool has a gas grill that all members can use for free! Other families don't take advantage of this (too snooty.) But many summer evenings, I bring our own food to the pool and we grill there, and eat at the pool, and leave all the mess behind, and come home to a COOL house! Many local parks also have grills, and we've collected firewood at the park (legal here) and cooked on the grills at the park for free!
4) Have one "cold food" dinner per week. This doesn't have to mean only salad, although tuna salad with lots of veggies is great. But it can also mean things like a bread and cheese and fruit tray, or European-style muesli or other cold food items. Nothing wrong with a cold dinner in the heat of summer!
5) Sleep in the basement or outside. If possible, move your sleeping area in the summer. Why sweat it out on the top floor of your house, if the lower level is nice and cool? Or if you have a screened porch? Just move things outside. "Sleeping porches" used to be a real thing.
6) Close off rooms of your house that aren't being used. You have to be careful about this, because of air-flow issues. But sometimes you can judiciously close off parts of the house that don't need as much A/C. Just make sure moisture levels stay OK in there.
7) Use fans. They really do help, and they use exponentially less energy, even if you use them 24 hours a day.
You need to write for a blog!!!
I used to, but I ran out of time, doing "real life," LOL!
Mr. Hilder chilling in the background freaked me out for a minute!!!!
Great advice, we live in a century home that has a stone basement(huge rocks) open the hatch to outside and open the door to inside the house and presto free air conditioning! Love your videos Starry & Mr Hilder of course!
good job, I'm not off grid, too old, but I have been using the same common sense approach, gonna look into the outdoor oven....keep up the good work
Nice video 🤠
It gets 47 centigrade here in summers so real solar air conditioner becomes a necessity
Cool air for free
I love your house and how much preparation you put into the build. Thx for sharing and giving us ideas.
i designed my house based on ancient designs - 2ft overhangs around the house which block out the hot summer sun, but allow the winter sun into the house when the sun is low... lots of insulation in the attic.... windows open at night, and closed during the day. the basement is mostly underground so is actually uncomfortably cool... i'm a zone 4 at 3700ft but the summers are HOT. however if i'm really hot, i just go jump in the lake. i have 16 6v 440amp batteries with a 3kw wind turbine (which is almost always going) plus 2kw of solar... and another 2400w system that powers my greenhouse...
and a 17kw generator that kicks in if the batteries are drained (not so far) is it over kill? sure... but i've been adding to it for years, it wasn't purchased all at once, plus i want to make sure i'm good for just about anything... part of it though is to be stingy with your usage regardless of how much you generate.... would have done a grid tie, but the hydro company makes it so difficult and expensive to do it, i just went totally offgrid. unless you're willing to be stingy stingy stingy with your power, don't bother going alternative... the best energy isn't alternative, it's energy that isn't spent at all.
Thumbs up delivered. Your garden looks like it's flourishing.
Hi Starry just left a comment and went to check if everything was correct and the comment was gone...lol so wanted to say hi and i love you and rhanks so very much for your videos i always enjoy them,,, bless you and so glad your feeling better... blessings!!!!
I have watched many offgrid channel's and I find yours very interesting and well done..looking forward to the next video..ok I'm hooked.
I just love you. You are so kind and caring....God bless you....MINDY
There is a basement house not for from where I live that was built in 1970, the front of the house faces East and has a lot of windows and the 6' back of the house has top windows and has ran off solar from day one, but has been updated to newer panels. I asked David (The Great Grand Son who lives there today) what was the temp in his house at 3pm and he said 60deg. it was 101deg. outside that day. This is why I am drafting out a Home like yours Starry and David's next door to me ? Thanks GREAT VEDIO Prayers and Blessings Paul & Susan North Georgia
Thank you for sharing. I would recommend to you and others to use water with fan ( little energy ) beside what you are doing. Use your garden to cool your self naturally by surrounding your self with covered water fall with big fan. I hope i explained the point . If not i will show you example.
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plant fruit trees, so true
but we just let our little volunteer tree grow since the old maple had to go, it was 1/3dead, yet withstood 70 mile an hour storms! it was a good tree! I miss it, but it made room for more garden which is not unimportant if you only have 1/4 of an acre
always pros and cons
I love that concrete floor you got!!!!!
You two are absolutely brilliant !" 👍 very cool !" Without the expense !" I like that !"👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍✨
Very effective information. Thank you Starry for sharing ways to be efficient self reliant. God bless you.
though it would look really weird in the states, look into a Yakhchāl. they use thermal mass to accomplish the same thing, and your entire house can be built around it.
I wish we could open doors and windows at night but here in arkansas in the summer it doesn't cool down much at night and it would get the house all humid and sticky feeling like it is outside. :(
nothing like summer in the south
Emilee Crowder I wondered how cool it got for them in Idaho. I've tried opening the windows at night here in kansas, but when the lows are in the upper 70's to low 80's at night and humid, it doesn't help cool the house much
excellent video very informative and really efficient in energy cost ,just need to be done before construction.in third world countries some people use innexpensive way to cool down their home with an array of cone shape end of plastic bottle inside the wall and when the air pass inside the venturi effect cause by the smaller diameter of the inside versus the outside is cooling the air by lowering the pressure you can drop the temp by 5 to 8 degree celsius not bad for a cheap air conditionning. You can also use an roman style with pipe in the ground at least 2 or 3 feet deep to cool the air coming inside and put the exhaust in your house and the beauty of this method is it s work in the winter to heat up and in the summer to cool down.ancient civilisation who had not acces to electricity found various ingenious way to cool their home .we need to look in the past to live a sustaimable life off grid . Thanks for all the knowledge you share with us ,love you .God bless you
FANTASTIC way of THINKING !!! you're RIGHT on the MONEY !!! from MIAMI ...:-)
Luvin' these COOL Starry tips on how to stay cool in the heat of SUMMER!!! When the rains arrive, they cool us down no problem, but when they leave(after 3 or 4 days of constant rainshowers), the Sun comes out and the highest it has gotten here is 33°C, funny thing though, not as hot as in the coastal lowlands or the southeast but still if a costeño comes up here on the central plateau, they'll be wearing sweaters in Summer, they say its so chilly up here! lol....thumbs up and keep being IRIE pretty lady! :)
Enjoying and learning from several homestead TH-cam sites, found you though Patera's channel. Watching from Dayton, Ohio.
yessss ohio and yeaaa Patara my gal!!!
Starry genius! I do wonder how these ideas haven't crossed people's minds. They seem common sense to me.
Here's another tip: Cook pizza in 400F oven on 90F humid day?? Not so smart. Make dinners that need an oven in the winter. Ovens in winter double as another heat source.
its about 50 degrees in my house this morning lol but we do the same doors and windows open at night and shut the sun out during the day. We also live in maine so it dont get real hot where we live ..Love all your vids
I love you Starry! I have been watching you for months, love ALL your videos. Thanks and keep it up!
ahhhh love you to thanks!!!
I love your energy Starry! Thanks for sharing this info. I tell ya, its still 80-85 degrees in Central Texas at night--OIY! The heat is horrible. BUT I am not off grid and we are in a built home (totally on grid right now) with AC and I am thankful for it in the summer. Our house is for sale and looking forward to being on our homestead/farm soon. It probably will not be totally off grid, but I sure want to do SOME things DIFFERENTLY than now! And isn't that what it's all about?! :) Do what you can do with what you have, build on it, add/change things as you go to become more self sustaining/reliant.
I just started my youtube channel to document out journey (so fun!) but I am just learning it, and it's a challenge for me for some reason. I can't wait to get it off of private mode and get up and running!
At 5:38 I thought there was a deer in the living room! He was very still.
I'm jealous...live in a condo. was without power for 5 days. Used to ac. I learned from your video. Thanks
Mr Hilder is a Lucky Man!
If you build your own house go with a monolithic dome. No other design (within reasonable cost) is as energy efficient. Fire proof, hurricane proof, tornado proof, earthquake proof, bullet proof. Equivalent to better than R-60 + thermal flywheel effect
Maybe I misunderstood, but the concept sounds more like “benefits of building a house on a slab - aka, heat sinks help”... either way, I think it’s really cool you’re working with the idea of zero electricity being a viable option.
I see a lot of prepper types that build these whole set ups with the idea that they’ll be able to always get more gas for their petrol powered generators... so it’s good to see that someone’s thought of the possibility there might just not be power anymore. ^.^
90F=32C, Girl! it's not that hot really~ In Australia, we have much harsher weather in summer! the sunlight could bake dry my flowers and me! and high UV index.... which cause skin cancer :(
Lee Lee thats fo sure, we're in Queensland we get high 30's to low 40's here over Summer, not sure what that is in F degrees, air con is a must but our Solar pays for it, so our on grid power bill is not thru the roof.. cant grow too much here in Summer either, it just dries out from the heat
100F+ = 38C+, that's HOT, I found if the temperature get higher than 32 or 33C, it's hot, probably because the air all heated up too! does not like that :(
WOW! That is so cool Starry!, NO pun intended. Great information.
Awesome Starry tips! We use some of them and will now be doing more! Thanks for sharing some *COOL* info.
The air conditioner is still necessary depends on your location if you have a nice mountain location that is great But what if drought season coming, no rain trees leaves are drying scourging hot and fire sparks everywhere! That's when smog comes in! all air pollution particle like pm.2.5 pm.10 that smaller than your red blood cells enter your house your environment and lastly your body your family! ONLY Then you will gratefully to have airconditioner system.
good video Starry.....learned a lot! Not that I will ever be necessarily a total off grid
prepper....but workiing that way for my area best I can legally....we'll see.
90 outside and 60 inside without AC.... amazing!!
If it's 60 degrees inside, why is he sitting on the couch in shorts and no shirt? Something's not right here.
i have a 1500 gallon sistern in my fullsized rotcellar that gets filled about every 2-3 wks.that seems to keep the house fairly comfy in central ND.in the summer
.just leave the dooor open an we get hydracooled;so to say.btw,nice deer racks on the walls.good hunting to youall this fall.thnks 4 the vid. naturalone.
have you tried a evaperation cooling. You don't need to blow the damp air in the house. use the cool water to cool the house.
I love this! Such good tips, I'm opening all the windows now. Crossing my fingers it'll cool down the house for tomorrow!
Oh , that slab floor, Starry I would be stenciling designs all over the place, lol.
Some really good tips. Thanks for posting your video. You would die here in Atlanta without air conditioning. We didn't have an air conditioner when I was growing up(Memphis). Landscaping, building etc helped some but IT WAS MISERABLE without air conditioning. I would do without electricity in every other way but would use all my electricity I did have for my air conditioner. No electricity for other things- kerosene freezer/fridge, wood-stove and hand crank washing machine(Thanks to Lehman's).
ok . well in some places it's 83 for a low , then not until 5 am , then 93 for a high . with a heat index of 105 . it does not " cool" off for 7 months .
Great tips! I love your positive manner, as always. It was super neat to actually see how much cooler the inside of your house was than the outside. Right now, I'm renting as I have been moving around, following the jobs. When I eventually settle down, I hope to help build (I definitely want an expert to lead me) an earthship on a nice piece of acreage.