Advice regarding Keeping Cool in Thailand... Without breaking your bank account

[lopburi3]

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

My house has a roof which looks like this.  

 

One would think that there should be fairly low heat transfer from the space below the roof, through any plaster board, to the rooms below.

 

Also, don't these types of prefab metal roofs already have insulation fastened to the underside of them?

 

Maybe it would be advisable to measure the temperature with a thermometer attached to the ceiling to learn how hot the ceiling gets.

 

Insulation is very cheap compared to the cost of wasted BTUs, for sure.

That appears to be a tile roof - not metal.  Tile has no insulation attached.  

[big dendrobenaes]

On 8/7/2021 at 1:55 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

How old should one be, before one is not considered a newbie? 

 

2 years in Thailand? 

20 years in Thailand? 

40 years in Thailand? 

 

I just hope that I can, someday, reach 60 years, since my first time in Thailand. 

 

Maybe I will. 

I ain't planning on going nowhere, anytime soon. 

 

I plan on having my ashes scattered here. 

 

70 years, for me, in Thailand, is not inconceivable, Lord willing. 

 

Thank the Lord, I chose Panasonic! 

 

 

i have daikin inverter

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

That appears to be a tile roof - not metal.  Tile has no insulation attached.  

Sorry.

I meant the shape of the roof, and the brick walls underneath.

Mine is actually a metal roof, and it makes noise when it expands in the Sun.

Also, I can hear animals, sometimes quite loud, running back and forth on the roof, after midnight and until 4am. Not sure what these animals might be.

Definitely I have a metal roof.

 

(Note:  A steel roof tends to reflect the sunlight, which is good.  However, I think my roof must be some other metal. Steel is expensive.)

Edited August 11, 2021 by GammaGlobulin

[lopburi3]

11 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Sorry.

I meant the shape of the roof, and the brick walls underneath.

Mine is actually a metal roof, and it makes noise when it expands in the Sun.

Also, I can hear animals, sometimes quite loud, running back and forth on the roof, after midnight and until 4am. Not sure what these animals might be.

Definitely I have a metal roof.

 

(Note:  A steel roof tends to reflect the sunlight, which is good.  However, I think my roof must be some other metal. Steel is expensive.)

Cats and rats are the most likely runners at night but during day birds will make a lot of noise.  Only the newest and most expensive types have bonded insulation - if not they transfer heat as get hot as h... in the sun and are like an oven below.  So good airflow below is important and if have ceiling insulation on that will help keep it out of living area (and not expensive to do),  Will also help to deaden the noise a bit.

Edited August 12, 2021 by lopburi3

[GammaGlobulin]

6 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Cats and rats are the most likely runners at night but during day birds will make a lot of noise.  Only the newest and most expensive types have bonded insulation - if not they transfer heat as get hot as h... in the sun and are like an oven below.  So good airflow below is important and if have ceiling insulation on that will help keep it out of living area (and not expensive to do),  Will also help to deaden the noise a bit.

The noise on my roof at night and early hours does sound like a fairly large animal chasing another sizeable animal.

Maybe a cat chasing a rat, as you say.

Maybe two rats chasing a cat.

More likely, two cats chasing three rats, is what it actually sounds like.

 

Fortunately, the noise is not cats in heat,

It's plenty hot already, without that.

 

Edited August 12, 2021 by GammaGlobulin