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Does your house feell like a forced fan convection oven in summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s how to build a highly efficient, giant solar powered oven.<\/p>\n

Eight steps to making sure your oven gets as hot as possible in summer: powered by nothing other than the sun!<\/p>\n

1. Erect a wooden frame about the size of an average house.<\/p>\n

2. Build bricks around the outside of the frame. Bricks have a good thermal mass, which means that as the sun shines on them in the day, the bricks will store the heat and radiate it back into the oven long after the sun has gone down.<\/p>\n

3. Fix a very low thermal mass material (like plasterboard) to the inside of the timber frame so that if any cool air gets in the oven (heaven forbid), the coolness won\u2019t be stored in the inner walls.<\/p>\n

4. Put lots of glass in the walls (avoid double glazing at all costs), especially the north facing one. Make sure these windows have minimal awnings.<\/p>\n

5. Put black colorbond (ideally) or dark tiles on the top of the timber frame to maximize the heat absorbed by the \u2018roof\u2019 of the oven.<\/p>\n

6. Add a fan that blows air down from the top of the oven. This way, as the hot air inside the oven rises, you can blow it back down to floor level to makes sure that anything on ground level gets suitably cooked through. To keep things simple, we\u2019ll refer to this ventilation system as the \u2018Ducted Air System\u2019<\/p>\n

7. If you are worried about cool air getting into the Ducted Air System, then simply add an insulated ceiling to create a roof space.\u00a0 Ensure all the ducted air system\u2019s pipes are kept inside this ferociously hot roofspace.\u00a0 This will\u00a0 minimize the chance of any air in the pipes actually getting cold.<\/p>\n

8. If the meat in the oven needs a little more grilling, then add dozens of high powered halogen heaters liberally recessed into the ceiling. As well as producing enormous amounts of heat these little halogen bulbs will produce a small amount of light as an added bonus.<\/p>\n

If your house was built like this and resembles an oven in summer,\u00a0 the two most cost effective things you can probably do are:<\/p>\n

a) \u00a0 Fit mains or solar powered fans into the roof to remove the hot air from the roofspace. These will remove 7-10 times as much air as a passive \u2018whirlybird\u2019.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u00a0 Fit external awnings on all N, E and W facing windows.<\/p>\n

If you do those and your cooling bills don\u2019t halve, I\u2019ll eat my cancer-council approved wide brimmed hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Not long ago, in a suburb not too far away from SolarQuotes HQ, a solar\/battery system owner made contact. 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