Snowy36
2022-08-21 16:38:02
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Can’t you cross-ventilate the bedroom with other rooms in the evening and at night?
We have a kfw55 house but have absolutely no problems.
Some windows and doors are open during the day, and if it’s 30 degrees outside, I have the same inside. I don’t mind, in that weather I’m outside anyway.
In the evening there’s a draft through the whole house, the heat goes out quickly, usually it gets a pleasant 25 to 26 degrees.
Only the bedroom with west-facing windows (however the sun only gets there late) we shade with roller shutters during the day. Then in the evening the window is opened, overnight the window stays open and the shutter is pulled down, only leaving about 20 cm open at the bottom. That way we can sleep really well, the bedroom is max 24 degrees in the evening, mostly only 21 to 22 degrees in the morning.
From my point of view, ventilation at night is the most important.
Your husband is worried about break-ins with the windows upstairs? Where do you live? Somewhere where it’s even bright at night and you need soundproof windows at night? That’s of course annoying but shouldn’t be the usual case with single-family houses.
By the way, we have a bungalow, so the bedroom windows are on the ground floor. That’s why the roller shutters are pulled down about 20 cm and the window is open. Burglars don’t want to get caught, they almost certainly won’t break into an occupied bedroom. That only happens in crime novels.
We live in the countryside. In a new development area with about 20 houses at the end. If you want to sleep later than 7 a.m. on a Saturday, you better close the windows. Kids’ noise, neighbors working, cutting tiles, paving, woodworking, mowing the lawn etc. etc.… And lawn mowing and kids on Bobby cars will continue too. And at that time it’s already light for a long time.
And we don’t have roller shutters but window shutters… they can be closed and then a bit of air comes through…. But even that he doesn’t dare to leave open on the ground floor…. Because we actually sleep upstairs, if someone tries anything there we wouldn’t even notice?
Maybe not in your bedroom, but what if the other side of the house is open for cross-ventilation?