The essentials: good habits to pick up

Automate your blinds

Optimise the energy consumption of your air conditioner

Delta Dore tips to take things up a notch

  

The essentials: good habits to pick up

• Drink water regularly
• Keep your home cool: close internal doors, windows, and shutters during the day, air rooms out at night.
• Switch off electrical appliances when not in use: limit cooking and eat plenty of fruit and vegetables in salads.
• Defrost your freezer to limit electricity consumption
• Create outdoor green spaces: plants cool the atmosphere through evapo-transpiration

Did you know? Do not leave your fan running when no-one is in the room. It circulates the air but does not cool it. For even more effective cooling, place a bottle of frozen water, an ice pack or a wet cloth in front of your fan.

 

  

Automate your blinds

The trick to keeping your home cool is to plan ahead so that the heat doesn't have time to penetrate. To this end, there's nothing better than external protection (shutters, blinds, external Venetian blinds, sunshades, etc.), which are the most effective way of blocking the sun's rays.

With smart roller shutters, awnings, or external Venetian blinds, you can enjoy thermal comfort by controlling them as you wish from your Tydom app.

• Use your Tydom app to programme your shutters so that they anticipate temperature changes: and automatically lower before the hottest hours of the day. Thanks to Tymoov roller shutter motors, your bay window won't let the heat in when the sun is shining! 
• Remote control: you can also opt for remote control. You're at the office and the sun is beating down harder than you expected? Close your blinds remotely from your Tydom app! 

Did you know? Intelligent shading can reduce the temperature by up to 6°C in summer, cutting air-conditioning bills by 60%.

  

Optimise the energy consumption of your air conditioner

A few figures : 

• Turning up the air conditioning from 22°C to 27°C halves electricity consumption⁽¹⁾
• Starting up at an external temperature of 30°C rather than 27°C reduces consumption by a factor of three⁽²⁾

Things to remember when using your air conditioning⁽¹⁾ :

• To keep your electricity bill down, choose the most energy-efficient devices. You can spot by checking out the energy label: the most efficient appliances are rated A+++.
• Only use the air conditioning when the room temperature exceeds 26°C, keeping a maximum distance of 5 or 6°C from the outside to avoid thermal shock
• Remember to switch off your appliance when you decide to air out your home
• To avoid having to air-condition your home when your windows are open, install a window magnetic contact.

 

 

Delta Dore tips to take things up a notch

• Easy sockets: for switching off devices in standby mode. Most electrical appliances give off heat, even when on standby. By switching them off: you lower the temperature in your room and cut your electricity bill. 
• Micro-modules to control motorised openings (with Tyxia 5630) such as roller shutters, awnings, etc. See the dedicated article on micromodules. 
• Use LED lights that do not produce heat.
• Door/window magnetic contacts: to monitor exit points (doors, windows, etc.) and keep your home cool. With door/window magnetic contacts installed on your windows and linked to your Tydom box, you can monitor exit points and make sure that everything is closed when it's hot outside, or on the contrary, that everything is open when it's cool - in the early morning for instance! 

(1) Source: ADEME, How to keep your home cool in summer, April 2023, France

(2) Source: Comfort air conditioning in residential and tertiary buildings - 2020 status report, CODA stratégies on behalf of ADEME, France