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.
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Do you live in a place where winter is really white and cold? If you do, you probably know how much of your expensive indoor heat gets lost because of thermal exchanges that occur all over glass surface. Glass is indeed an awful thermal insulator, yet many of use love big windows, mostly if we have a house with a beautiful view. For such windows, insulated curtains are an affordable and effective solution for creating a radiant barrier that would prevent cold drafts formation inside the rooms.
Making your own thermal insulating curtains or drapes is very easy. It’s enough to double your regular curtains with an insulating lining layer. You sew the two pieces of fabric together, then hang your curtains back to the windows and add some Velcro tape on the backside of the curtains and on the walls, in order to make the three free edges of the curtain stay pressed against the wall.
This is one of the cheapest home insulation methods that can significantly improve the r-value of your windows, thus increasing your thermal comfort and decreasing your energy bills.