How do I cool down my bedrooms. Remove carpet?
Question:My upstairs bedrooms are probably 10 degrees hotter than my downstairs. I have tile downstairs and carpet upstairs, if I remove the carpet should that considerably cool down the room?
Answers:
Trapped hot air is your problem. Solutions include:
1. Venting of the bedroom and attic to let or force the hot air out.
2. Sunheat through the windows can be reduced by tinting or installing insulated windows.
3. Insulating the walls (facing the sun) and the attic floor (bedroom ceiling)
4. Painting your roof with reflective (or vey light colored) roof coating.
5. And yes airconditioning is a sure fire way to cool things down.
I dont know if thats going to make a big difference or not. Generally the upstairs of a house will be warmer than the downstairs. Remember heat rises.
I dont know as to the set up of your house, but really the best thing to do is to get a fan, airconditioner, or some other climate control variable.
The upstairs is normally hotter than the downstairs, usually about 5-10 degrees. Tile will do nothing but cost you money, it will not help to alleviate your problem. Tile on the ground floor (especially on a slab house or in a basement) will be cooler because of the ground beneath. Tile upstairs may feel slightly cooler to the touch than carpet, but will not compare to the tile downstairs. To help with the cooling of your upstairs the best thing you can do would be to either install a whole house fan or ceiling fans in every room, to circulate the air in your house. Other than that air conditioning would be the next best solution, but the downstairs will ALWAYS be cooler at least by a degree or two at best.
You may need to simply add attic vents(the whirly spinners on top of the roof to displace the heat) or an attic fan can work wonders if you turn it on for a minute or 2 to remove heat build up in the top portion of the house. Try to push the cooler air from below up.
As far as you carpet try going down to the hardwood floor if it is there. But the rooms will still be hotter upstairs anyway since heat rises.
Good Luck!
I put darkening shades in my upstairs roomsand leave the( afternoon,shady side) windows open a crack or so. point the fans in the direction of the hot rooms and cross ventalate. If it gets really hot I sleep down in the living room with the rest of the family!
Roof insulation worked for me, also, you can get the windows tinted and if you have a double brick home you could have the cavity filled with the expanding foam.
You could also have the windows double glazed.
Even just keeping the drapes or shutters closed will help stop the Sun from heating up the room a bit.
Use screen to the windows; paint the walls with light green colour; have more ventilators just below the ceiling and fix exhaust fans for better result to cool down your bed-room
if you remove the carpet, then your sound-insulation goes out the window. you'll be able to hear EVERYTHING that goes on upstairs, so if you can live with that...i doubt that it would cool anything down. invest in central air, or ceiling fans.
You are better off using lined drapes. Leave the windows open during the night with fans sucking in the cooler night air. Then close the windows in the morning and pulling the drapes closed. It makes it darker, yes, but the cooler temps will last longer. Keep an oscillating fan going to circulate the air.
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