I spend more time in my bedroom than any other part of the house, I sleep there as well as spend most of my leisure and study time there.
So it is fairly important to make this room as comfortable as possible.
Unfortunatly the room is anything but comfortable in summer.
My room was built by myself a few years ago into the second car slot of a 2 car garage. There was no insulation in the roof however I have now insulated all the walls and ceiling and bought insulating sliding glass door window treatments.
In the corner of my room is a hot water heater which is on 24/7 which adds considerably to my rooms temperature.
My room has think carpet which rests on top of shattered concrete so the carpet has to stay.
There is no window in my room but I installed a vent that sucks air from outside and pulls it in, however it doesn’t work at all during summer because the air outside is very hot.
I have 5 desktop fans on 24/7 which create a cyclone-effect.
The room has 3 PC’s, 2 TV’s and a server PC which generates a lot heat.
The room is thankfully almost dust free due to the lack of windows and I installed dust filters on intake air. However in order to keep it dust free the door to my room needs to be shut and vacuum sealed as much as possible, resulting in the room having a very high pressure.
Air conditioning is out of the question because I already pay a lot on power as it is.
I would also prefer to keep liquids to a minimum in this room due to the expensive hardware that could be sensitive to it.
So with that aside, what can I do to make my bedroom cooler?
at the moment it is 28 degrees Celsius and I can’t wear cloths inside my room.
Feb
13
Category: Home & Garden
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You built the room yourself.I’ll bet your skilled enough to install a room air conditioner through an outside wall of course you’ll need to build an opening for the installation of the A.C.first
I can’t think of anything. to make the room cooler.
Perhaps you should invest in one of those handheld electric fans that have a water squirter attached.
Try drinking some water with lots of ice in it. (cool,and you’ll need lots of water in a hot enviroment.)
The heat is trapped in your room and needs to be vented out.
Warm air is less dense than cold air and is therefore easily displaced by it. Cold air will fall to and gather at the floor level, displacing, or forcing the warm air upward. You say you insulated the ceiling. That traps the warm air in. Sure the insulation helps keep your room cooler in the Summer months by preventing the heated air in the garages attic from heating up the air in your room, but it also leaves you with the situation you have now. I will bet that the attic of the garage is not properly vented to allow the hot air that accumulates there to be pushed up and out either at the peak through a full length “ridge vent” or at the gable ends (if your garages roof is an A-frame style) through large “gable end vents”. And in order for the warm air to be properly forced out, cooler air must be able to enter from under the outside eaves through “soffet vents”.
If those two venting systems were adequate in your garage roof, the air in the attic would always be cooler than it is now, allowing some of the warm air in your room to migrate up and out, especially if you installed a couple ceiling vents to speed the process along.
So hop up into your attic. If it is being properly vented the air should be roughly the same temperature as the air outdoors, NOT a lot hotter. I’m betting it’s pretty warm.
Having a properly vented attic will also prolong the life of your roof, preventing ice damage and shingle over-heating.
If that’s too expensive and time-consuming an undertaking for you, a small window-vent installed high on a side-wall with a blower or fan pulling the warm air out of your room will also help.
You should also put an insulation blanket around the water heater as a minimum, if not completely boxing it off from your room to prevent any additional heat from it adding to your problem.