10-20-2014, 12:52 PM
We have a newer house with no insulation. No insulation keeps the house from retaining heat in the late afternoon and evening.
We have no heating or cooling system unless you count opening and closing the windows. Oh, and I have a solar powered fan that sucks outside air into the house and blows the house air into the attic. It was few hundred dollars on eBay (fan plus solar panel) and it helps to keep the house cool (the ceiling no longer radiates heat).
Coquis aren't a problem because our chickens hunt them mercilessly. Plus there are landscaping options that help with that. The frogs off in the distance, we actually like hearing.
The noisiest thing is actually a heavy rain hitting the metal roof, but those types of rains generally don't last too long.
Before we bought the house we had an engineer inspect it and he said he generally only recommends insulation if you're going to be using or adding air conditioning some day, and that the fiberglass kind will just get moldy and full of creatures, so use something else.
We have no heating or cooling system unless you count opening and closing the windows. Oh, and I have a solar powered fan that sucks outside air into the house and blows the house air into the attic. It was few hundred dollars on eBay (fan plus solar panel) and it helps to keep the house cool (the ceiling no longer radiates heat).
Coquis aren't a problem because our chickens hunt them mercilessly. Plus there are landscaping options that help with that. The frogs off in the distance, we actually like hearing.
The noisiest thing is actually a heavy rain hitting the metal roof, but those types of rains generally don't last too long.
Before we bought the house we had an engineer inspect it and he said he generally only recommends insulation if you're going to be using or adding air conditioning some day, and that the fiberglass kind will just get moldy and full of creatures, so use something else.