Attic fans and vents.
Attic above garage gets too hot with air conditioner.
There s some attic space above the front half of the garage and two bedrooms over the rear half of the garage both of which get very warm during the summer.
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Updating your garage door.
It s always too cold or too hot.
They have thermostats that turn the fan on at a recommended preset temperature of 100 110 degrees.
The garage attached to my townhome gets the full afternoon sun.
Thus hot attic air is moving through this space heating the floor of the room and rendering the insulation useless.
Pedestal fans box fans or even better a higher powered shop fan will get the air in your garage moving.
Install electric ventilators and attic fans which remove hot air from an attic.
This can happen in the ceiling areas too with the insulation against the underside of the roof decking but leaving an air gap to the back side of the dry wall of the ceiling of the bonus room.
The temperature in the garage has reached 110 degrees at times this summer.
I have large attic with ridge vents and screened vents at either end of the attic to maintain air flow.
My idea is to vent the build up of hot air that has risen to the ceiling in the hotspot rooms into the attic so that air from cooler parts of the house can move in.
And in homes with attic knee walls i e.
You ll stay cooler and your garage air conditioner unit won t have to work as hard.
Like the rest of your home your garage gets a lot of extra heat from the attic above it.
Another highly efficient means of keeping the garage cool is the installation of a permanent vent with an attic fan.
Alternatively install passive vents such as gable soffit and ridge vents which are openings in the roof that allow hot air to escape.
Modern garage doors come in many different materials and colors.
The fan will draw hot air upward and send it out through the vent instead of just moving the hot air around.
Builders rarely insulate the floor above a garage.
Low cfm similar to a bathroom vent 300cfm and only in the hot spots basically by adding an inline ducting fan to the return ducts for the hotspot rooms.
Add some rolled insulation to the floor of the attic or to the ceiling of the garage if the attic is finished.
I have a shop in my attic for some of my hobbies and it get s very hot in the summer.
Using air conditioning in the garage might also be too cost prohibitive for your liking.
Your attic is on the other side of the bedroom wall.
One of the cheapest garage cooling solutions you can use that s still effective is a simple oscillating household fan.
This is when you shouldn t get a variable speed air conditioner.
