A 26 minuit video to tell us, 1 how hot it is in Arizona, The Armish build houses with 2 thick walls 3 high ceilings 4 trees for shade on house. 5 no need for AC. I typed it all in two lines.
You left out summer kitchens, ice houses, and clothes that cover the head and arms, protecting the body from excessive exposure to sun. Don't forget strategically opening and closing windows to get a cross breeze going. I would add, from my own experience, that it helps to put a few frozen lunch bag inserts next to you when you sit down to sew or read.
@@enaid54 Arizona native here, most of this story is bs. Go research it. The native Americans are the ones that build to stay cool, not the Amish in Arizona. The Amish are mostly winter visitors, snowbirds and there is a Mennonite church in Sunnyslope, but no large communities. It's cooler in northern Arizona, no one in the valley lives like that. Sunnyslope is mostly ghetto.
The most energy efficient home I ever built had ten-foot ceilings and windows above the double pane, picture windows with an inner plastic coating, which would bounce the sunlight back out the windows on the view-wall which was facing toward the south. When the sun was lower in the winter, as it progressed toward the west, the sunlight was let in to provide ambient warmth. Since the home was on a ridgetop it, many times, let the cooler breeze in in the summer cool the home. There was a fantastic coastal, redwood view.
I had a relative who lived in Palm Springs. His house was very cool too. He had AC, but only turned it on for a couple of hours per day in the summer. I asked him how his seemingly normal house stayed so cool and only needed AC for such a short time. He said his house was built using 2x6 framing rather than the typical 2x4. So that extra 2 inches and space for thicker insulation was all it took to make the difference. So if you think about it, we are ALL about 2” away from having very efficient homes compared to now. While 2x6 is more expensive, i think if we redesign our new homes to have at least a central core made with this thicker material and the rest using standard, we can close off and isolate the areas. But realistically, maybe make bedrooms and other regularly used areas out of the thicker material and the rest out of 2x4 and close them off during the hottest parts of the day if its found to be more affordable to mix the materials. But really, you just need the outer walls to be 2x6 and all interior, 2x4. If you add brick to the exterior and shade trees, that will help even more. In your more humid areas, you may only need to run a dehumidifier although, AC dehumidifies and gives you cool air too. Humid areas are more tricky. Swamp coolers don’t really work. But regardless, having thicker walls will keep temperatures much better and 2x6 vs 2x4 construction has a significant impact. Wouldn’t have believed it till i experienced it.
In northern California I made a 120 Sq ft bug out shelter out of sandbags. In the summer it stayed cool and winter it stayed warm. If I ever lost my job what money I do have would go a long way
I saw a lot of farms and Amish houses in this video but not a one of them in Arizona. I'm an 80 year old Arizona native and retired firefighter and have lived here continually all my life. You keep saying Arizona but I see green lawns and farmland. I didn't see one Saguaro cactus or desert landscape of our Sonoran desert. Communities along the Colorado River dividing Arizona from California are nearly as or equally as hot as Death Valley. Parker, Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City easily reach 120 degrees every year. This year it has gotten to 127 degrees F. 130F has been recorded. Unless you are into water sports and have a boat you don't want to live here. No such place as "PEAK" Arizona.
Don't go with the recordings Have seen people posting on social media recording temperatures on mountains in deserts, basically on top of sun scorched stones which showed upto 20°c higher than the residential areas there
That's because there have never been Amish in Arizona. I mean outside of maybe possibly visiting there have never been any Amish. There are beachy Amish in places like Florida, but they're closer to Mennonites and the way they're more technologically modern. I mean people want to know good techniques for surviving the heat. They would be better off focusing on indigenous architecture from that region. Or looking up other places that have desert climates. There are ancient ways in which people used to cool down and the specifically what kind of architecture they used to have.
Everyday for months at 10:30am my thermometer outside with no sunshine on it says 120. The recorded temp is 100. I cancel plans till it does cool to 100 by my thermometer. Basically there is so much cancelled it’ll take me months to get caught up. There is no cold water by the way. I’m way behind on laundry. Cotton breathes but the hot water shrinks it. What I like is there are no fleas. They simply cannot survive this heat. @@creativeideas012
I grow up in the Middle East and summer times used to be so hot and we didn’t had AC, but inside the stone houses was cool and I remember everybody use to come home sleep for few hours and then afternoon go back to work.
I'm 4 minutes and 33 seconds into this video... HOW MANY TIMES CAN A PERSON SAY THE EXACT SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER?
My grandmother lived in Florida and cooled her house with an attic fan. You could open the windows in July, turn that fan on, and it would create a breeze that was more effective than any AC unit.
This is noticeable in many places in Europe, old houses in villages are usually built to live in without air conditioning. The stone walls kept it nice and cool in summer and helped keep the heat in during winter. If I ever build my own home, I'd use the German style personally.
Just to pile on with everyone else: You didn't explain HOW to open windows. For the casement style, open halfway at bottom AND top to set up a natural thermal wave. If you have a 2-storey, open one downstairs window on the first floor from the bottom. At the other end of the house, open another window from the top. Same principle. And don't forget wraparound porches! My house was built in 1880 and although we can get some pretty hot summers hitting well over 100 degrees F, I never bother to turn on the AC even for a few hours in the afternoon until August, and then only 5-7 days' worth. But I have a big wraparound porch too, and I know how to open windows. Also 10' ceilings etc.
This is how houses in Europe are built today. Especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland where the Amish originally come from Great importance is attached to keeping the houses cool in summer and warm in winter (energy efficiency). This stable and forward-looking construction method could be one of the reasons why houses in these countries are several hundret years old.
Many of the Amish clips are from the movie Witness and were filmed in Lancaster County, where I was born and raised, as was 12 generations of my family. I dont know of anf Amish or Old Order Mennonites in Arizona and I have lived in Tucson for the last 40 years.
Amish dont live in Arizona this video is almost entirely bullshit accept for the segment where suggested adobe houses (who in az doesnt already know that?) I dont think amish would want to live in az
My solar panels rock in summertime. I keep a small deep freezer I've built in a boxed area . Protected by a shade tree, locked up of course...so for one person living off grid, it's stocked well. I generally have 6 months of meat daily. I love cooking out side over a wood fire and Dutch oven. Cowboy cooking. But in winter I'll cook inside. Much of my food is canned, that I've water bath preserved, it's already cooked, so it's more like heat n eat, being conservative with cooking fuel. Think about having whole foods, in the preservation process it's cooked, then you simply heat and eat.... Think about how much heating fuel you save.
I'll never understand what the point of having bunkers and tunnels and all that doomsday prepper crap is. Humans are social creatures. It's how we evolved. Let's say you are under 'attack' (which will never actually happen to anyone who thinks they can be a one man army), then what after? You will still be alone. No doctor to patch you up after a fantasy firefight. You'd just get sick and die. Or, run out of rations. And, die. Or, get overwhelmed and die. Or, simply no longer be able to live with the crippling loneliness and simply either go mad or leave your home. Waste of money.
When I was in College back in the 70s I was assigned a corner room in a 1934 solid stone 3 story dormitory built by the WPA. No AC, but the walls were about 2’ thick. We really didn’t miss it, and acclimated pretty quickly. It helped that we were in a high plains area and the humidity was low, even though the temperature was hot half the time we were there. Heat came via old fashioned steam radiators. It also made a great shelter in case of a tornado.
This isn't exclusively Amish, people in the 1800s did the same thing using high ceilings, transom windows, trees, adobe/rock/brick, summer/winter kitchens, root cellars, etc. Ice houses wouldn't work in AZ, Penn. yes...
Big utility bills: The problem is that buildings are STILL not insulated well throughout the USA, not just AZ. Insulation is the key whether natural or man-made. The whole nation could drastically reduce the energy demand.
I disagree, thermal mass is a better way to keep your home cool in the summer. Thick walls made of dirt or rock will do a fantastic job however, they are a lot more expensive to build. That’s why builders choose inexpensive ways to build houses because inexpensive houses sell a lot better than houses that are better built.
I also disagree, my 1906 home with zero insulation in the desert area of California, cooled off super fast in the evening. All that insulation just holds heat and releases heat all night . I just open the windows with a window fan. Didn't turn on window ac until around 2 or 3 and off by 9. Winter, natural gas was cheap to heat it
At fort McDowell in the 1870s the soldiers were in adobe barracks and linen sheets were kept damp so the breeze would blow through the sheet and cool the rooms further.
🌴 Palm springs girl here...Funny, Ive lived in the desert for 55 years in a 120°. So i'm very aware of insulation. We don't park a car.We don't buy a house unless there's trees around it as well. So I was interested in watching your video.And I didn't see any houses from the desert.Almost every house you showed was from back east where i'm from. Do you have any homes that are actually in the desert by these Amish folks
here is another tiny tip. dig a pit in your basement and fill it with river rock and cover it with some kind of strong grate. build your high ceilings and on your roof put a square 1/2 wall od windows that will open. in summer open the lil windows and your house will draw cool air from the rock pit through your house. in winter cover the pit, close the windows and turn on a ceiling fan.
If you keep a 2 or 3 foot ring around your tree with a low fence to compost the leaves it drops it will grow far faster and stay healthier and you have a place to dump the yard grass and Autum mess.
No Amish person would allow themselves to be filmed or even photographed. All the scenes of "Amish" in this article are from a movie or movies. But Native Americans who have lived in Arizona for centuries, use these ways to stay cool. Also, having grown up in Phoenix, I can tell you that living with the heat gets you used to the heat. Using air conditioning makes you more intolerant to the heat.
Amish will not let you photograph. I live near true Amish. They have strict rules, they are religious, and they will not be filmed. However, Harrison Ford will be filmed. Case closed.
I often live in Phoenix with 115 and up. With no AC in my vehicle or anywhere else. Of course, I am only 71 in 2024. Being this young makes it much easier to handle high temps without any AC.
My 170 year old House in Mississippi stays comfortable past 90 degrees. While the walls are not that thick, the house is over 3 feet off the ground (thus ventilated beneath), the ceilings are high, so the hot air is up above one's head. The floor plan allows the breeze to blow through unobstructed, and the breeze itself is cooled by blowing through a tree-shaded area outside, in addition to the shade from the porch.
It would be nice if the construction companies that build the houses for the general public would incorporate these building methods, but they build houses for as cheap and as fast as possible to maximize their profit. I pay way to much for air conditioning.
Shade, shade, shade. Cover your skin. Sun on your skin is hotter. Dig holes. Love under ground ! Get those rain gathering fences, that pull moisture from the breeze, and morning dew, and collect it ! Yes, cement homes and floors, room between the roof and house, for any breeze. Fans, fans, fans. Drink LOTS of water !!!
I have lived in Arizona for over forty years. I did a quick search and found that there are no year long Amish communities in Arizona. Evidently you have never seen the Arizona desert. Absolutely none of the pictures shown were from the AZ desert. They are a bit too lush.
You were probably too busy "fiddling with the fan" and the nest thermostat rather than vaulting your ceilings 1 story ranch ceiling to a 3 story cathedral instantly in a snap of finger like the Amish. (For me in SF Bay, I'm looking at over 300K contractor costs and an unpermitted modification -- not to mention the 6 monthes of renting an AirBnb or hotel equivalent). Oh yeah, and rather than looking to your machines like an ice maker and AC unit, you should have planted that tree 30 years ago. What were you thinking?
What I have noticed is that modern houses make open kitchens into the living room/dining rooms...older houses usually had walls separating the kitchen and living room/dining room which prevented the heat to spread into the living room.
I had a high ceiling house in the Philippines 🇵🇭 it works. And in Spain 🇪🇸 tall ceiling and a front porch with large high roof cover which shades the suns heat away from the windows and door. I don't recall Air conditioning units 🤔 tall birch trees in the yard that shades the house, in the Philippines tall coconut 🥥 palm 🌴 trees we had tall large windows open and screen
I live in Central Queensland where it can get extremely hot also. We mostly have our older houses up on stilts. This allows any wind to pass around the house and cool it down. I do have an AC, but don't use it as a fan is usually good enough when it does get really hot.
Where many of us in America live, it’s not a hot environment that is the determining factor, but the cold where things like high ceilings have to be mitigated with the power grid.
I live in one of the most Amish populated areas around and have stayed the night and hung out with Amish (at their homes) and there is such a thing as "Amish AC" but its not like this video. Most Amish houses around here are built with a basement. Not just any basement though. My friend had a ramp in his garage (wide enough to drive a car down) that led to his basement. There was a door to shut off the basement from the garage and ramp, but in the summer, he would open his garage door, open both basement doors and the wind would blow the cool air from the basement up to the rest of the house. It kinda worked. The drawback was that he had a lot of mice in his home. He was sitting on 35 acres of farmland (corn fields mainly) and a lot of dust and dirt blew into the house. There were so many mice that the ones that got stuck in the glue traps would get eaten by the ones that didnt get stuck.
Wear long sleeve loose fitting garments and wide brim hat that protect you from solar radiation (the sun). Basement 10 foot deep, floor temp around 56F depending on location. Wrap around porch to keep direct light off the wall of the house, Clare story windows under two foot overhanging eves. the sunrays can't directly enter the home. The sunlight striking the ground reflect upward coming in through the clairestory windows, striking the white ceiling lighting the room. Two foot thick wall of stone or brick. Open windows on shaded side of the house to let cool air in and exiting through ceiling vent in the highest part of the house. Trees shading the house from the noon time sun. Open windows at night and shutting the windows in the day with drapes covering the windows. Drapes over the windows on the outside of the house. Central hallway from front door to back door funneling air through creating a Ventura effect. Summer cook house for cooking, laundry, dishwashing. Screen porches attached to the house with screens on three sides. First floor rooms earth sheltered to four or five feet. Outside yard with 6 to 10 foot bushes trees in front and back yard of different heights, and mid height native grasses absorbing sun light. Crushed rock instead of concrete car park. Street wall of bushes surrounding the property. Been there, done that.
I have used many of these techniques for years, although I also have wood heat and AC. You did not cover basements, which is the opposite of high ceilings. Well done!
Obviously you have never spent a summer in Arizona. I have been here for over forty years. If you do a quick search asking about Amish communities in Arizona you will find that there are none. This video is complete BS.
We are so spoiled nowadays! I’m 37 and grown up we had a small ac in our house in the hallway that barely worked if you laid right next to it. We only turned it on once in a while. We have ceiling fans and a pool. When it hit triple digits, I would wet towels down and lay them on me when going to sleep. We made it work it wasn’t that bad.
Well I just clicked on this video to just debunk one thing there is no Amish in Arizona. There are very few groups of Amish in the southern states. You can sort of consider beachy Amish but they do things a little bit different from your old order Amish. Other than that you can consider like Mississippi a Amish group. But for the most part none go further beyond Tennessee. There are Mennonites that are everywhere but they have various different technologically difference. If you want a better answer, how did people in the South used to live or how did people in the southwest used to live before air condition. What were traditional buildings and indigenous buildings that were there before. But there was a reason why very few people moved to the Sunbelt states before air condition. It was very tough for people to adapt to the heat.
Sir, have you ever BEEN to Arizona? I live in the desert. Go ahead and try to plant and water a tree in AZ in the desert. lol go ahead. I live off grid. no well. I have to haul water from the nearest town to keep my home going . I'd love to have a tree. But getting water to keep it alive is the problem. nice video, tho.
I call Bull Shit on the Amish living in Arizona !!! I never meet or knew of a single Amish person in Arizona, and I was stationed there 55 years ago, and visit friends there every summer. The Amish people are very cleaver, and very resourceful, and have an amazing presence in the area around Lancaster Pa. NOT in Arizona !!! Now the old Spanish missions in the South Western United States do use thick walls ( Thermal mass ), and a host of other passive cooling technology, and have for over 400 years. So do most of the Real Spanish style homes, not only those built hundreds of years ago, but very modern ones as well. The Arco Santé project in Arizona serves to teach this older technology to younger architects, and engineers, and started over 40 years ago. People who are knowledgeable and frugal, learn to live in harmony with their environment. It was only the coming of cheap energy, that happened after the Second World ended, that enabled people to build wildly energy inefficient home, that were constructed just for appearance, rather than efficiency. We are paying the price for that inefficiency now. And only because of the tremendous rise in energy costs has any one taken an interest in energy efficient building construction, especially structural sighting, natural shading, earth sheltered, and better insulation. Tim
We live in an old adobe house here in west Tx, and it's HOT in here most of the year, and COLD in winter, because the owners installed the cheapest of windows, and theres n9 insulation in the attic, plus it has dark colored shingles which soak up the sun's heat like a sponge. They built an add-on onto it, and put NO INSULATION i the walls, And didn't caulk around the windows or outlets. So no matter what tha walls are made of there's other factors to consider.
You right, but like New Orleans and further south, often as spring it’s below sea level, waters are up on the levee and you’re down below. Misery! Like Camille, that’s what made it so bad! Florida does real good with hurricanes!
Arizona has much less humidity than other areas. When I was young I lived in AZ and ride my bike 7 miles to work in 110 degree weather . It wasn’t too bad. Now I’m in Texas. There’s no way that I could do 7 miles in 100 degree temperature.
You need a course in geography, especially that of Arizona. Trees in the desert and adobe structures lol😂. Is that like growing cactus on icebergs.....
I wish I could live 1 year like they do. In Portugal. My family home was built in 1397. it has 207 rooms. the walls are about 4 feet wide. every bedroom has a large fireplace. but no air conditioning. it's warm during winter, and cool during summer. I remember when an electrician came to our home to install electricity they didn't have anything to make a deep hole in the wall to bring in the wires.
I just found an article that Amish don't live in Arizona. If they do, they sure don't have a huge green lawn in the desert as in your video unless they live up North where you don't need much air conditioning to start with. Mennonites live here, but I don't think Amish do. I don't think anyone can survive nowadays in Arizona without some form of electricity. No one builds adobe anymore like the natives did and there is less water to keep things cool and more black top roads increasing heat. If the Amish do build houses, where do they do this at? Most houses in the desert have only stucco. I am very curious how they could farm and be successful in the desert like they have been back east with water restrictions. The AZ desert without air and electricity is unbearable and many die of heat exhaustion within a few hours. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT AREA OF ARIZONA AMISH BUILD THESE HOUSES THAT CAN WITHSTAND 110 DEGREES WITHOUT AC?
I’ve lived in AZ for most of my life. I’ve travelled all over the state for research and work. I’d like to know where this Amish community is in AZ? I’ve never bumped into it, and I’m almost 60.
Yeah, this went on way too long before you got to any point but you got 52,000 views so I guess it worked I live in Tucson. It’s been in 100s for months. Basically these Amish people are not cool in their homes. Trust me they are dying outside and inside maybe their house is what 89° inside please don’t be ridiculous, it’s hot as heck here ain’t nobody surviving without air conditioner and loving it😊
I live in a palm thatch home, but it leaks, going to put on fake teja. My walls are made of adobe and thick. But it still gets hot. I have very high ceilings.trees on nearly all four corners.
The Amish are an excellent example but lest we forget, they are not the only ones, even here in Arizona! How did the Navajo and the Hopi stay cool? And what about the cowboys way back when? A visit to Tombstone will teach you that not only did they use extra-high ceilings but they also plated them with tin tiles like giant heat-sincs to pull the hot air up and out through vents. You'll see that in the saloon! Then too, all throughout Eastern world, they used and still use Wind Catcher towers often paired with subterranean waterways to pass the air currents over and cool it even further before venting it back up into and through the house. People who want to make money on everything can't stand to watch people live without spending money on anything. They suppressed all this ultra-advanced ancient technology so they could sell us A/C units and the power needed to run them! But the truth is we never needed them. The Native American people of the West also lived and thrived in the desert heat. They weren't exactly cavemen and primatives! But even before the so-called primatives many of these ancient super high-tech methods were in use. What we tend to call progress is hugely just a lot of giant leaps backwards. The kardashev scale is wrong to say that the most advanced civilization is the one that is able to cature and utilize all of its energy. It's quite the contrary, actually! In terms of energy dependence the most advanced and mature civilization would use the least amount of energy not the most.
I’m Armenian by nationality, I bought vacation home home in Armenia, that house was very old but well built, external walls of the house was one meter thick, under hot summer days inside the house very cold is like 65 degrees F, I remodeled the house but I didn’t touched the external walls, previous owner told me in winter time house is very worn as well
@@enaid54stones , same as my grandparents in Czech Republic or other countries in Europe , same as old castles , all of them build from stones with very thick walls .
Before I continue to "read" this publication, I hope I have output enough topic-pertinent information to be beneficial (As a first-generation born U.S. citizen, of a woman of the Great Western Australian Outback) ...
Yeah, my mum said they use to have hot tea at teatime in the outback. I would think that could help biological climatization beyond just sweating. Me, here in the western U.S., i drink hot water.
A 26 minuit video to tell us, 1 how hot it is in Arizona, The Armish build houses with 2 thick walls 3 high ceilings 4 trees for shade on house. 5 no need for AC. I typed it all in two lines.
thank you
The video was very interesting and great information. It caught my attention.
Tnx!
You left out summer kitchens, ice houses, and clothes that cover the head and arms, protecting the body from excessive exposure to sun. Don't forget strategically opening and closing windows to get a cross breeze going. I would add, from my own experience, that it helps to put a few frozen lunch bag inserts next to you when you sit down to sew or read.
@@enaid54 Arizona native here, most of this story is bs. Go research it. The native Americans are the ones that build to stay cool, not the Amish in Arizona. The Amish are mostly winter visitors, snowbirds and there is a Mennonite church in Sunnyslope, but no large communities. It's cooler in northern Arizona, no one in the valley lives like that. Sunnyslope is mostly ghetto.
The most energy efficient home I ever built had ten-foot ceilings and windows above the double pane, picture windows with an inner plastic coating, which would bounce the sunlight back out the windows on the view-wall which was facing toward the south. When the sun was lower in the winter, as it progressed toward the west, the sunlight was let in to provide ambient warmth. Since the home was on a ridgetop it, many times, let the cooler breeze in in the summer cool the home. There was a fantastic coastal, redwood view.
I had a relative who lived in Palm Springs. His house was very cool too. He had AC, but only turned it on for a couple of hours per day in the summer. I asked him how his seemingly normal house stayed so cool and only needed AC for such a short time. He said his house was built using 2x6 framing rather than the typical 2x4. So that extra 2 inches and space for thicker insulation was all it took to make the difference. So if you think about it, we are ALL about 2” away from having very efficient homes compared to now. While 2x6 is more expensive, i think if we redesign our new homes to have at least a central core made with this thicker material and the rest using standard, we can close off and isolate the areas. But realistically, maybe make bedrooms and other regularly used areas out of the thicker material and the rest out of 2x4 and close them off during the hottest parts of the day if its found to be more affordable to mix the materials. But really, you just need the outer walls to be 2x6 and all interior, 2x4. If you add brick to the exterior and shade trees, that will help even more. In your more humid areas, you may only need to run a dehumidifier although, AC dehumidifies and gives you cool air too. Humid areas are more tricky. Swamp coolers don’t really work. But regardless, having thicker walls will keep temperatures much better and 2x6 vs 2x4 construction has a significant impact. Wouldn’t have believed it till i experienced it.
What a goof story. 😅
Building with 2x4 for home hasn’t been the standard in the us for the past 40 years.
Cuz building houses with sticks works great 😂😂😂
It’s the outer walls that need the extra insulation. Inner walls do nothing to keep the heat from coming in.
Thank you for this. The builders or those in charge plant houses facing WEST here in Arizona. Can’t even touch the doorknob in the afternoon.
YOU'RE AS LONG WINDED AS THIS VIDEO.
JUST SAY IT.
More insulation = less energy costs.
DU --FKING-- H
In northern California I made a 120 Sq ft bug out shelter out of sandbags. In the summer it stayed cool and winter it stayed warm. If I ever lost my job what money I do have would go a long way
You better not let the code enforcement catch you.
I saw a lot of farms and Amish houses in this video but not a one of them in Arizona. I'm an 80 year old Arizona native and retired firefighter and have lived here continually all my life. You keep saying Arizona but I see green lawns and farmland. I didn't see one Saguaro cactus or desert landscape of our Sonoran desert. Communities along the Colorado River dividing Arizona from California are nearly as or equally as hot as Death Valley. Parker, Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City easily reach 120 degrees every year. This year it has gotten to 127 degrees F. 130F has been recorded. Unless you are into water sports and have a boat you don't want to live here. No such place as "PEAK" Arizona.
Don't go with the recordings
Have seen people posting on social media recording temperatures on mountains in deserts, basically on top of sun scorched stones which showed upto 20°c higher than the residential areas there
@creativeideas012 please believe Phoenix gets to 120° sometimes higher in peak summer! I've lived in it I should know
@@mom4zaliegh True.
That's because there have never been Amish in Arizona. I mean outside of maybe possibly visiting there have never been any Amish.
There are beachy Amish in places like Florida, but they're closer to Mennonites and the way they're more technologically modern.
I mean people want to know good techniques for surviving the heat. They would be better off focusing on indigenous architecture from that region.
Or looking up other places that have desert climates. There are ancient ways in which people used to cool down and the specifically what kind of architecture they used to have.
Everyday for months at 10:30am my thermometer outside with no sunshine on it says 120. The recorded temp is 100. I cancel plans till it does cool to 100 by my thermometer. Basically there is so much cancelled it’ll take me months to get caught up.
There is no cold water by the way. I’m way behind on laundry. Cotton breathes but the hot water shrinks it.
What I like is there are no fleas. They simply cannot survive this heat. @@creativeideas012
I grow up in the Middle East and summer times used to be so hot and we didn’t had AC, but inside the stone houses was cool and I remember everybody use to come home sleep for few hours and then afternoon go back to work.
Yes, and dome ceilings are often built into their houses to help draw the heat up and away from the interior.
I'm 4 minutes and 33 seconds into this video... HOW MANY TIMES CAN A PERSON SAY THE EXACT SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER?
You should listen to Governor Newsom, he can say nothing for 30 minutes!
AND OVER AND OVER
its not a person.
My grandmother lived in Florida and cooled her house with an attic fan.
You could open the windows in July, turn that fan on, and it would create a breeze that was more effective than any AC unit.
Those are great!
@@FlipDahlenburg Taking a shower while it was on was Fabulous!! 😊
One fellows home, you’d sweat your butt off, turn the attic fan on, it’d make it tolerable!
This is noticeable in many places in Europe, old houses in villages are usually built to live in without air conditioning. The stone walls kept it nice and cool in summer and helped keep the heat in during winter. If I ever build my own home, I'd use the German style personally.
(speaking from experience)
Just to pile on with everyone else: You didn't explain HOW to open windows. For the casement style, open halfway at bottom AND top to set up a natural thermal wave. If you have a 2-storey, open one downstairs window on the first floor from the bottom. At the other end of the house, open another window from the top. Same principle. And don't forget wraparound porches! My house was built in 1880 and although we can get some pretty hot summers hitting well over 100 degrees F, I never bother to turn on the AC even for a few hours in the afternoon until August, and then only 5-7 days' worth. But I have a big wraparound porch too, and I know how to open windows. Also 10' ceilings etc.
This is how houses in Europe are built today. Especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland where the Amish originally come from
Great importance is attached to keeping the houses cool in summer and warm in winter (energy efficiency). This stable and forward-looking construction method could be one of the reasons why houses in these countries are several hundret years old.
Many of the Amish clips are from the movie Witness and were filmed in Lancaster County, where I was born and raised, as was 12 generations of my family. I dont know of anf Amish or Old Order Mennonites in Arizona and I have lived in Tucson for the last 40 years.
Yes , there are no Amish in Tucson , AZ .
@nadiajurasek186 There are no Amish living in Arizona.
There is Amish in Arizona. I'm a Mennonite and I'm in Las Vegas and we are in every state in the country
Amish dont live in Arizona this video is almost entirely bullshit accept for the segment where suggested adobe houses (who in az doesnt already know that?) I dont think amish would want to live in az
@@susanpsaropulos1147exactly i dont even understand this fucking video's existence
My solar panels rock in summertime. I keep a small deep freezer I've built in a boxed area . Protected by a shade tree, locked up of course...so for one person living off grid, it's stocked well. I generally have 6 months of meat daily. I love cooking out side over a wood fire and Dutch oven. Cowboy cooking. But in winter I'll cook inside. Much of my food is canned, that I've water bath preserved, it's already cooked, so it's more like heat n eat, being conservative with cooking fuel. Think about having whole foods, in the preservation process it's cooked, then you simply heat and eat.... Think about how much heating fuel you save.
In a pinch you can just eat self canned food not as nice unless it is peaches but you know that already.
I’m in Las Vegas,we are grateful when the temperature is around 100 degrees! Yes it sucks and you never get used to the heat.
Basements, bunkers, tunnels stay 68F all year. A cool place to store, work, sleep. A secure place against weather, attacks. Compare to Switzerland
What do you mean compare to Switzerland?
@@JustinJohn-j4r The Swiss also have a good approach to living. Investigate, if you're curious.
I'll never understand what the point of having bunkers and tunnels and all that doomsday prepper crap is. Humans are social creatures. It's how we evolved. Let's say you are under 'attack' (which will never actually happen to anyone who thinks they can be a one man army), then what after? You will still be alone. No doctor to patch you up after a fantasy firefight. You'd just get sick and die. Or, run out of rations. And, die. Or, get overwhelmed and die. Or, simply no longer be able to live with the crippling loneliness and simply either go mad or leave your home. Waste of money.
When I was in College back in the 70s I was assigned a corner room in a 1934 solid stone 3 story dormitory built by the WPA. No AC, but the walls were about 2’ thick. We really didn’t miss it, and acclimated pretty quickly. It helped that we were in a high plains area and the humidity was low, even though the temperature was hot half the time we were there. Heat came via old fashioned steam radiators. It also made a great shelter in case of a tornado.
My aunts old home in Georgia was built post war. It had 1 ft thick poured cement walls. It was always cool in middle Georgia
This is why old houses have tall ceilings not just in Arizona
2 minute cities will change that.
This isn't exclusively Amish, people in the 1800s did the same thing using high ceilings, transom windows, trees, adobe/rock/brick, summer/winter kitchens, root cellars, etc. Ice houses wouldn't work in AZ, Penn. yes...
There are no Amish communities that reside year long in AZ
Basements as well
Big utility bills: The problem is that buildings are STILL not insulated well throughout the USA, not just AZ. Insulation is the key whether natural or man-made. The whole nation could drastically reduce the energy demand.
I disagree, thermal mass is a better way to keep your home cool in the summer. Thick walls made of dirt or rock will do a fantastic job however, they are a lot more expensive to build. That’s why builders choose inexpensive ways to build houses because inexpensive houses sell a lot better than houses that are better built.
I also disagree, my 1906 home with zero insulation in the desert area of California, cooled off super fast in the evening. All that insulation just holds heat and releases heat all night . I just open the windows with a window fan. Didn't turn on window ac until around 2 or 3 and off by 9. Winter, natural gas was cheap to heat it
Yes. Exactly.
At fort McDowell in the 1870s the soldiers were in adobe barracks and linen sheets were kept damp so the breeze would blow through the sheet and cool the rooms further.
You just described almost every home in México
🌴 Palm springs girl here...Funny, Ive lived in the desert for 55 years in a 120°. So i'm very aware of insulation. We don't park a car.We don't buy a house unless there's trees around it as well. So I was interested in watching your video.And I didn't see any houses from the desert.Almost every house you showed was from back east where i'm from. Do you have any homes that are actually in the desert by these Amish folks
No
here is another tiny tip. dig a pit in your basement and fill it with river rock and cover it with some kind of strong grate. build your high ceilings and on your roof put a square 1/2 wall od windows that will open. in summer open the lil windows and your house will draw cool air from the rock pit through your house. in winter cover the pit, close the windows and turn on a ceiling fan.
If you keep a 2 or 3 foot ring around your tree with a low fence to compost the leaves it drops it will grow far faster and stay healthier and you have a place to dump the yard grass and Autum mess.
No Amish person would allow themselves to be filmed or even photographed. All the scenes of "Amish" in this article are from a movie or movies. But Native Americans who have lived in Arizona for centuries, use these ways to stay cool. Also, having grown up in Phoenix, I can tell you that living with the heat gets you used to the heat. Using air conditioning makes you more intolerant to the heat.
Amish will not let you photograph. I live near true Amish. They have strict rules, they are religious, and they will not be filmed. However, Harrison Ford will be filmed. Case closed.
Basement keeps cool. Open one second story window it draws up the cool air.
I often live in Phoenix with 115 and up. With no AC in my vehicle or anywhere else. Of course, I am only 71 in 2024. Being this young makes it much easier to handle high temps without any AC.
Did this video write this comment?
My 170 year old House in Mississippi stays comfortable past 90 degrees. While the walls are not that thick, the house is over 3 feet off the ground (thus ventilated beneath), the ceilings are high, so the hot air is up above one's head. The floor plan allows the breeze to blow through unobstructed, and the breeze itself is cooled by blowing through a tree-shaded area outside, in addition to the shade from the porch.
Grammas stone house in PA had a summer kitchen off the porch
Also, notice the vents just below the roof/lintel for the hot air that has risen, to escape.
It would be nice if the construction companies that build the houses for the general public would incorporate these building methods, but they build houses for as cheap and as fast as possible to maximize their profit. I pay way to much for air conditioning.
Southwest tribes have known this method. It is truly an "old" innovation.
This is why I love having an old house with high ceilings and trees. It's cooler inside and outside. I wish I had a Amish style outside kitchen.
And that’s whyI live in a Strawbale house It’s cool inside and we had 114 degrees this summer. You haven’t shown any Arizona house.
Shade, shade, shade. Cover your skin. Sun on your skin is hotter. Dig holes. Love under ground ! Get those rain gathering fences, that pull moisture from the breeze, and morning dew, and collect it ! Yes, cement homes and floors, room between the roof and house, for any breeze. Fans, fans, fans. Drink LOTS of water !!!
refreshing & informative! trolls should stop throwing stones 🌵
I have lived in Arizona for over forty years. I did a quick search and found that there are no year long Amish communities in Arizona. Evidently you have never seen the Arizona desert. Absolutely none of the pictures shown were from the AZ desert. They are a bit too lush.
If you want people to trust your content and return foe more, make it with facts!
Using cob, hemp Crete and window quilts make a difference in keeping a house warm during the winters and cool during the summer ALSO
FAKE- no photo of Amish in Arizona
A-MEN to that.
You were probably too busy "fiddling with the fan" and the nest thermostat rather than vaulting your ceilings 1 story ranch ceiling to a 3 story cathedral instantly in a snap of finger like the Amish. (For me in SF Bay, I'm looking at over 300K contractor costs and an unpermitted modification -- not to mention the 6 monthes of renting an AirBnb or hotel equivalent). Oh yeah, and rather than looking to your machines like an ice maker and AC unit, you should have planted that tree 30 years ago. What were you thinking?
I’m in Arizona. Amish farm. Too hot for that here.
That’s because he’s full of 💩. There is no Amish in Arizona. He would know that if he did a quick Internet search.
lol icwydt 👍
For one thing most Americans don’t want to deal with that kind of heat. That’s why we have air conditioners and that’s why we use them.
What I have noticed is that modern houses make open kitchens into the living room/dining rooms...older houses usually had walls separating the kitchen and living room/dining room which prevented the heat to spread into the living room.
Highs is Arizona can reach up to 130° and in the evenings it can stay at 100° all night long. Have you ever been there during the summer?
Yes I have and this video is BS.
@@a.ramosakadrumgrl6677 That’s the part that gets me is the night. I never can believe how hot it is at night. Fools me every night.
I had a high ceiling house in the Philippines 🇵🇭 it works. And in Spain 🇪🇸 tall ceiling and a front porch with large high roof cover which shades the suns heat away from the windows and door. I don't recall Air conditioning units 🤔 tall birch trees in the yard that shades the house, in the Philippines tall coconut 🥥 palm 🌴 trees we had tall large windows open and screen
I live in Central Queensland where it can get extremely hot also. We mostly have our older houses up on stilts. This allows any wind to pass around the house and cool it down. I do have an AC, but don't use it as a fan is usually good enough when it does get really hot.
Where many of us in America live, it’s not a hot environment that is the determining factor, but the cold where things like high ceilings have to be mitigated with the power grid.
I live in one of the most Amish populated areas around and have stayed the night and hung out with Amish (at their homes) and there is such a thing as "Amish AC" but its not like this video.
Most Amish houses around here are built with a basement. Not just any basement though. My friend had a ramp in his garage (wide enough to drive a car down) that led to his basement. There was a door to shut off the basement from the garage and ramp, but in the summer, he would open his garage door, open both basement doors and the wind would blow the cool air from the basement up to the rest of the house. It kinda worked.
The drawback was that he had a lot of mice in his home. He was sitting on 35 acres of farmland (corn fields mainly) and a lot of dust and dirt blew into the house. There were so many mice that the ones that got stuck in the glue traps would get eaten by the ones that didnt get stuck.
There are no Amish in Arizona, according to Wikipedia.
In Japan, an "air conditioner" is correctly called a "cooler".
Wear long sleeve loose fitting garments and wide brim hat that protect you from solar radiation (the sun). Basement 10 foot deep, floor temp around 56F depending on location. Wrap around porch to keep direct light off the wall of the house, Clare story windows under two foot overhanging eves. the sunrays can't directly enter the home. The sunlight striking the ground reflect upward coming in through the clairestory windows, striking the white ceiling lighting the room. Two foot thick wall of stone or brick. Open windows on shaded side of the house to let cool air in and exiting through ceiling vent in the highest part of the house. Trees shading the house from the noon time sun. Open windows at night and shutting the windows in the day with drapes covering the windows. Drapes over the windows on the outside of the house. Central hallway from front door to back door funneling air through creating a Ventura effect. Summer cook house for cooking, laundry, dishwashing. Screen porches attached to the house with screens on three sides. First floor rooms earth sheltered to four or five feet. Outside yard with 6 to 10 foot bushes trees in front and back yard of different heights, and mid height native grasses absorbing sun light. Crushed rock instead of concrete car park. Street wall of bushes surrounding the property. Been there, done that.
House with dog Trot alley down the middle. Draws in the air and cools it. Add wrap around porch.
I have used many of these techniques for years, although I also have wood heat and AC. You did not cover basements, which is the opposite of high ceilings. Well done!
Obviously you have never spent a summer in Arizona. I have been here for over forty years. If you do a quick search asking about Amish communities in Arizona you will find that there are none. This video is complete BS.
They are content with what they have. God gave us all we needed is their mindset.
These people really know how to live! I love their energy bills!
We are so spoiled nowadays! I’m 37 and grown up we had a small ac in our house in the hallway that barely worked if you laid right next to it. We only turned it on once in a while. We have ceiling fans and a pool. When it hit triple digits, I would wet towels down and lay them on me when going to sleep. We made it work it wasn’t that bad.
I live in Florida so I have to watch this
Well I just clicked on this video to just debunk one thing there is no Amish in Arizona. There are very few groups of Amish in the southern states. You can sort of consider beachy Amish but they do things a little bit different from your old order Amish.
Other than that you can consider like Mississippi a Amish group. But for the most part none go further beyond Tennessee.
There are Mennonites that are everywhere but they have various different technologically difference.
If you want a better answer, how did people in the South used to live or how did people in the southwest used to live before air condition. What were traditional buildings and indigenous buildings that were there before.
But there was a reason why very few people moved to the Sunbelt states before air condition. It was very tough for people to adapt to the heat.
Sir, have you ever BEEN to Arizona? I live in the desert. Go ahead and try to plant and water a tree in AZ in the desert. lol go ahead. I live off grid. no well. I have to haul water from the nearest town to keep my home going . I'd love to have a tree. But getting water to keep it alive is the problem. nice video, tho.
I call Bull Shit on the Amish living in Arizona !!!
I never meet or knew of a single Amish person in Arizona, and I was stationed there 55 years ago, and visit friends there every summer.
The Amish people are very cleaver, and very resourceful, and have an amazing presence in the area around Lancaster Pa. NOT in Arizona !!!
Now the old Spanish missions in the South Western United States do use thick walls ( Thermal mass ), and a host of other passive cooling technology, and have for over 400 years. So do most of the Real Spanish style homes, not only those built hundreds of years ago, but very modern ones as well.
The Arco Santé project in Arizona serves to teach this older technology to younger architects, and engineers, and started over 40 years ago.
People who are knowledgeable and frugal, learn to live in harmony with their environment.
It was only the coming of cheap energy, that happened after the Second World ended, that enabled people to build wildly energy inefficient home, that were constructed just for appearance, rather than efficiency.
We are paying the price for that inefficiency now.
And only because of the tremendous rise in energy costs has any one taken an interest in energy efficient building construction, especially structural sighting, natural shading, earth sheltered, and better insulation.
Tim
We live in an old adobe house here in west Tx, and it's HOT in here most of the year, and COLD in winter, because the owners installed the cheapest of windows, and theres n9 insulation in the attic, plus it has dark colored shingles which soak up the sun's heat like a sponge. They built an add-on onto it, and put NO INSULATION i the walls, And didn't caulk around the windows or outlets. So no matter what tha walls are made of there's other factors to consider.
Many many old cultures have done this.
Arizona heat is nothing compared to Florida. We love our water so much here we breathe it. At least when you sweat there, it evaporates
You right, but like New Orleans and further south, often as spring it’s below sea level, waters are up on the levee and you’re down below. Misery! Like Camille, that’s what made it so bad! Florida does real good with hurricanes!
Arizona has much less humidity than other areas. When I was young I lived in AZ and ride my bike 7 miles to work in 110 degree weather . It wasn’t too bad. Now I’m in Texas. There’s no way that I could do 7 miles in 100 degree temperature.
I grew up in Las Vegas, I guarantee that it's miserably hot inside those houses without air conditioning, I don't care how high those ceilings are.
I was really hoping for something useful here since it was 106° in Arizona today and i live in a camper. Can i have my 20 minutes back please?
You need a course in geography, especially that of Arizona. Trees in the desert and adobe structures lol😂. Is that like growing cactus on icebergs.....
I wish I could live 1 year like they do. In Portugal. My family home was built in 1397. it has 207 rooms. the walls are about 4 feet wide. every bedroom has a large fireplace. but no air conditioning. it's warm during winter, and cool during summer. I remember when an electrician came to our home to install electricity they didn't have anything to make a deep hole in the wall to bring in the wires.
That opening pic can't be Amish, he has the forbidden mustache.
26 mins of word salad. In one line, Willpower, Thick Walls, High Ceilings, Trees.
Many houses in the American South have summer kitchens. Of course in Antebellum times they were staffed by slaves.
when one of them r sick god forbid they have the funeral wagon next to the house god bless them
I just found an article that Amish don't live in Arizona. If they do, they sure don't have a huge green lawn in the desert as in your video unless they live up North where you don't need much air conditioning to start with. Mennonites live here, but I don't think Amish do. I don't think anyone can survive nowadays in Arizona without some form of electricity. No one builds adobe anymore like the natives did and there is less water to keep things cool and more black top roads increasing heat. If the Amish do build houses, where do they do this at? Most houses in the desert have only stucco. I am very curious how they could farm and be successful in the desert like they have been back east with water restrictions. The AZ desert without air and electricity is unbearable and many die of heat exhaustion within a few hours. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT AREA OF ARIZONA AMISH BUILD THESE HOUSES THAT CAN WITHSTAND 110 DEGREES WITHOUT AC?
Build a swamp cooler, or an evaporator cooler. I had one when I lived in N M.
So, how do the Amish of Arizona keep themselves warm during the colder months? They do, after all, seem more specialized in cooling themselves.
More power to them. I'll take a/c any day.
I’ve lived in AZ for most of my life. I’ve travelled all over the state for research and work. I’d like to know where this Amish community is in AZ? I’ve never bumped into it, and I’m almost 60.
Will you just GET ON WITH IT????
Yeah, this went on way too long before you got to any point but you got 52,000 views so I guess it worked I live in Tucson. It’s been in 100s for months. Basically these Amish people are not cool in their homes. Trust me they are dying outside and inside maybe their house is what 89° inside please don’t be ridiculous, it’s hot as heck here ain’t nobody surviving without air conditioner and loving it😊
BOY YOU GOT A BIG MOUTH FOR SOMEBODY THAT'S NEVER TRIED TO PLANT A TREE IN A DESERT
Im surprised they haven't made a movie about the Amish surviving and thriving in a futuristic apocalyptic event...
I live in a palm thatch home, but it leaks, going to put on fake teja. My walls are made of adobe and thick. But it still gets hot. I have very high ceilings.trees on nearly all four corners.
Earthships naturally remain cool.
The Amish are an excellent example but lest we forget, they are not the only ones, even here in Arizona! How did the Navajo and the Hopi stay cool? And what about the cowboys way back when? A visit to Tombstone will teach you that not only did they use extra-high ceilings but they also plated them with tin tiles like giant heat-sincs to pull the hot air up and out through vents. You'll see that in the saloon! Then too, all throughout Eastern world, they used and still use Wind Catcher towers often paired with subterranean waterways to pass the air currents over and cool it even further before venting it back up into and through the house. People who want to make money on everything can't stand to watch people live without spending money on anything. They suppressed all this ultra-advanced ancient technology so they could sell us A/C units and the power needed to run them! But the truth is we never needed them. The Native American people of the West also lived and thrived in the desert heat. They weren't exactly cavemen and primatives! But even before the so-called primatives many of these ancient super high-tech methods were in use. What we tend to call progress is hugely just a lot of giant leaps backwards. The kardashev scale is wrong to say that the most advanced civilization is the one that is able to cature and utilize all of its energy.
It's quite the contrary, actually! In terms of energy dependence the most advanced and mature civilization would use the least amount of energy not the most.
I’m Armenian by nationality, I bought vacation home home in Armenia, that house was very old but well built, external walls of the house was one meter thick, under hot summer days inside the house very cold is like 65 degrees F, I remodeled the house but I didn’t touched the external walls, previous owner told me in winter time house is very worn as well
What material did they use for the walls?
@@enaid54 house was built from stone middle of the wall was filled up with dirt, is cheap and free best insulation you could find
@@Levon9404 Wow, such a good idea. I live where it's very hot and this would help keep the house cool when there's no electricity. Thank you!
@@enaid54stones , same as my grandparents in Czech Republic or other countries in Europe , same as old castles , all of them build from stones with very thick walls .
How do they live through the outdoor cooking under 120F heat? Being under the hot sun and above the hot flames...that's what I'd like to know.
What kind of Amish do you prefer? Eskimo, Feudal Japan, Ancient Greek, Romans, the era of the Spanish Armada?
I'm off Electricity for 5 years in Oklahoma ☹️ 5:58
Ac window units cost less than $100. AND are not expensive to run nonstop. So theres that. Heating bills are what will break the bank.
Imagine putting an a/c in a clay house 😎🥶
Where do they harvest ice blocks in Arizona? 🤔
Enjoyed
All lies. I've lived in Arizona for over forty years.
Maybe that's why the walls are so thick in my stone house in Portugal 🇵🇹
Why would Amish farmers move to Arizona where water is so scarce?
This person ? loves the sound of his voice....
Amish in Arizona. Are they living above the Arctic Circle, too? Did Nanook of the North invite them to learn how to hunt?
I've never walked into a building where it's 120 outside and thought to myself wow it's so cool in here. Nope.
Before I continue to "read" this publication, I hope I have output enough topic-pertinent information to be beneficial (As a first-generation born U.S. citizen, of a woman of the Great Western Australian Outback)
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Yeah, my mum said they use to have hot tea at teatime in the outback. I would think that could help biological climatization beyond just sweating. Me, here in the western U.S., i drink hot water.
I lived all over Arizona for nearly 15 years. Never saw any Amish communities, only Mormon.
Adobe buildings have been common in the desert southwest for centuries and it's not an Amish thing.
The amish dutch german they created the old school technology for America farming machines
Been here in AZ more than 25 years & no Amish live here that l have seen.