When are you using your air con throughout the day and year?

[Naam]

Electricity bill 400-450฿/month

= lukewarm beer

[PoodMaiDai]

Build your house with passive cooling and take full advantage of the many ways to do so, and you probably won't need an air con, or if you do, only for a few months when you sleep.

We use ours about 5 months out of the year during sleeping only. Part of that is to kill the sound of no less than a million barking dogs around us.

[SantiSuk]

So many rich people being cheap with Electric

Probably just a tease, but if that were a serious jibe it misses the point, which is you feel much better being acclimatised to the ambient temperature than if you have to run for the cover of aircon. I've been here 6 years now and in the first 2 or 3 I would do very little outside. Now I find myself able to work in the garden/oddjob outside/do the pool etc for several hours of the day, thus displacing the local cheap labour. Oh - there you go again - rich cheap charlie

[Estrada]

The temperature setting for offices in Thailand is 24C but the Government recently suggested businesses to set the thermostat at 26C. In the UK we set the thermostat at 18C usually for heating. My electricity bill for a 3 bed house is B5,000 in the cooler season in Thailand and B8,500 for the hot season. I run the Air-con mainly at night and use fans during the day unless the weather is very hot. I have 4 Air-cons.

[harrry]

No need to talk about our solar setup. This thread is about air con usage.

Well if you are not connected to the grid how else would you run the airconditioners?

[ignis]

 

I don't have any A/c at our house,personally I don't like it, been British I was never used to A/cs until

I started traveling, Americans on the other hand do not seem able to live without it, been brought up

with it I suppose.

All we do is leave as many windows open as possible,sleep with open windows, around the house we have

lots of trees and plants ,also a few small ponds, all that keeps the house at a livable temperature 99%

of the time, couple of weeks maximum do we wish it was a bit cooler, but no real problem.

We just use fans, ceiling and floor fans, just put one on in the room we are in, good enough, we also

have solar water heater for the hot water.

Good luck with your venture, first thing to do is plant trees they will save you money in the long term.

regards Worgeordie

Being British it should surely work the other way,you should crave the cool air,I mean I always slept with the window open in the UK all year round even with snow on the ground.

 

Not everyone feels the need to use Air Con, when the house was built had fitted a unit in the main living room and in the master bedroom, what a waist of money........ as yet 10 years in October have never found the need to use them, the odd times Thais visit maybe will use the Air Con downstairs for an hour or 2....

Even in the car, mostly drive with the window open, odd times in a City maybe need to switch it on, is set to 24. the odd times I have been on the BTS in BKK, it is freezing cannot understand how people can travel like that.

[carib102]

I guess most of the replies are from people who live in the north.

It is the Chiang Mai forum

HA! So it is. I neglected to notice that. Must be the heat

[ignis]

 

I guess most of the replies are from people who live in the north.

It is the Chiang Mai forum

HA! So it is. I neglected to notice that. Must be the heat

 

Yep likewise failed to notice was CM Forum........ me 50 km north west of BKK and today a real cold wind, even with the sunshine, did have short on working in the garden but had to change to long trousers

[Khunangkaro]

Electricity bill 400-450฿/month

= lukewarm beer

What do you know about electricity consumption of a fridge besides your consumption of bear.

Suppose I would fill up all empty space in my fridge with bottles of bear then my electricity bill would even be less!!

Anyway, my great interest in bear is since longtime not anymore my cup of tea, so I might fill up my fridge with bottled water, although icy cold water is also of little interest......

Cheers.

[Naam]

Electricity bill 400-450฿/month

= lukewarm beer

What do you know about electricity consumption of a fridge besides your consumption of bear.

Suppose I would fill up all empty space in my fridge with bottles of bear then my electricity bill would even be less!!

Anyway, my great interest in bear is since longtime not anymore my cup of tea, so I might fill up my fridge with bottled water, although icy cold water is also of little interest......

Cheers.

there seems to be some misunderstanding i don't consum bear but 2 or 3 bottles of beer per week

bear

beer

[Naam]

 

I guess most of the replies are from people who live in the north.

It is the Chiang Mai forum

HA! So it is. I neglected to notice that. Must be the heat

 

Yep likewise failed to notice was CM Forum........ me 50 km north west of BKK and today a real cold wind, even with the sunshine, did have short on working in the garden but had to change to long trousers

any icicles forming at your roof?

[harrry]

Electricity bill 400-450฿/month

= lukewarm beer

What do you know about electricity consumption of a fridge besides your consumption of bear.

Suppose I would fill up all empty space in my fridge with bottles of bear then my electricity bill would even be less!!

Anyway, my great interest in bear is since longtime not anymore my cup of tea, so I might fill up my fridge with bottled water, although icy cold water is also of little interest......

Cheers.

Think you picked the wrong person to put that comment about Khunangkoro....check back on a few of his posts and see his previous qualifications and occupation.

[Naam]

Electricity bill 400-450฿/month

= lukewarm beer

What do you know about electricity consumption of a fridge besides your consumption of bear.

Suppose I would fill up all empty space in my fridge with bottles of bear then my electricity bill would even be less!!

Anyway, my great interest in bear is since longtime not anymore my cup of tea, so I might fill up my fridge with bottled water, although icy cold water is also of little interest......

Cheers.

Think you picked the wrong person to put that comment about Khunangkoro....check back on a few of his posts and see his previous qualifications and occupation.

"errare humanum est" - to err is human!

[Khunangkaro]

555 LOL.

My interest in beer so low, even forgot spelling.

Thanks for correction, but any well thinking person would understand that an ordinary bear never fits in an ordinary beer bottle in my ordinary fridge.

BTW thinking of a beer in the forest, I would prefer the smell of a bear.

In Sri Lankan jungle live rather small black bears that are really cute and nice when you feed them. Much better company then Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers, I can tell you.

This will explain my mistake.

Wish that you people understand the energy saving from a fridge full of beer. Better than using the corps of a black bear??

[harrry]

Wish that you people understand the energy saving from a fridge full of beer.

Yep I know after I empty the fridge of beer and drink it I save energy by lying down and sleeping.

[Khunangkaro]

Wish that you people understand the energy saving from a fridge full of beer.

Yep I know after I empty the fridge of beer and drink it I save energy by lying down and sleeping.

WRONG!! You forgot to refill the fridge first.

[KRS1]

If your out in the country, its much cooler because there is less concrete around you to absorb heat during the day.

Probably wont need it at all at night time.

If it gets hot a good alternative are misting fans.

[harrry]

If your out in the country, its much cooler because there is less concrete around you to absorb heat during the day.

Probably wont need it at all at night time.

If it gets hot a good alternative are misting fans.

Not if you have the high humidity here.

[KRS1]

If your out in the country, its much cooler because there is less concrete around you to absorb heat during the day.

Probably wont need it at all at night time.

If it gets hot a good alternative are misting fans.

Not if you have the high humidity here.

Yes it is.

Go to Hauykaew aboretum and take a walk, youll find its much cooler than just 50 meters away.

[L&J]

We have a house that has good ventilation and with the aid of ceiling fans and floor fans in

six years we have never used the air conditioners in the house. We are away in April and May,

which I would advise you do if possible, so we avoid the hottest, driest and most polluted time

of the year here.