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I was wondering about the opening of windows situation in an envelope house like you have. You have windows on the interior walls and then a little tunnel like 2 or 3 feet to the exterior wall with another window, is that right?

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No tunnels. In some areas there's a broad shelf (on the 2nd floor) that connects the two - similar to the upper balcony doors.

To open the outside windows, I gotta fancy stick that hooks into hooks and then spins around to crank open the windows. It's a good couple of hours worth of fucking around to do it. It's a pretty big house.

In a month or so, the basement will be cool (that too holds heat) and I can circulate the water from my boiler system and get cool water moving through the house. That's all well and good - until it gets hot. Once it gets hot, that's not nearly as effective.

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So I am thinking if you have a boiler system that you use to heat your home. Does that mean that you do not have the air ducts that a forced air system has? That will make it much more expensive to add central air conditioning

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I have a boiler. No forced hot air. There is some ducting, but it's used when I heat with wood.

I don't think I'm going to need to use ducting throughout the house. I suspect all I really have to do is cool it down in the air gap and the rest will take care of itself via convection. If I create a buffer that keeps it at like 78 in the air gap, the rest should take care of itself.

That's still a lot of cooling, but it shouldn't be too bad.