Going to be hot in my shop

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

I could sell you a roof top side draft for $250

[Akyla]

The A/C unit at my new store broke down the day we opened. FINALLY got the new unit installed and running today...2 1/2 weeks later. It hit 88 degrees inside yesterday. I several fans running but if I was behind the counter, they didn't hit me at all. I have never handled heat very well either. Probably lost 100 lbs in sweat the last couple of weeks!

[Superorb]

Does anyone her know where I could borrow or rent a FLIR camera? I'm trying to find the spots in my townhouse that are hot spots so I can try and eliminate them. It gets HOT upstairs where I work all day long.

[Brian]

Ugh, I feel you man. I just spent an hour outside in my garage trying to work on the jeep, and it's crazy hot. I really need to insulate it this year. The walls are easy but I use the ceiling beams to store stuff in. Anybody know if it would make a difference if I insulate directly under the actual slanted roof instead of going to the trouble to put up sheet rock and put in an actual ceiling? Do people do that? Basically skip putting in a ceiling but still get some insulation up there to tame the freezing winters and hot summers?

[Hummer]

Most folks over here use evaporative coolers because they're a lot cheaper to run than compressor operated air conditioners. We have two coolers on the house which previously would net a 12-16 degree differential. Two years ago we upgraded to more efficient Breezair coolers. At the time I extended a duct to include the garage and shop. Yesterday afternoon it hit 101 degrees here. Inside the house and garage for a short time the highest temp it got to was 75 degrees.

Lower humidity increases the evap cooler efficiency. Today, at 3:40 p.m., it hit a record 109 degrees. Inside the house it's a comfortable 72 degrees. An incredible 37 degree temperature differential! Love the Breezair coolers.

BTW, Xcel energy pays $500 in rebates for installing high efficiency evap coolers. We received $1K in rebates for our two coolers.

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

I also have portable evap coolers from 500 cfm to 5000cfm if anybody is interested send me a pm

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

Does anyone her know where I could borrow or rent a FLIR camera? I'm trying to find the spots in my townhouse that are hot spots so I can try and eliminate them. It gets HOT upstairs where I work all day long.

I have a portable 700cfm evap cooler that will work wonders for you $169 let me know if your interested also have smaller one for $149 or I have window A/Cs also

[Superorb]

Stupid HOA doesn't allow window AC units unfortunately. Don't swamp coolers just increase the humidity in an area? I absolutely cannot stand humidity. It's one of the main reasons why we moved from FL.

[Superorb]

dont do this if your windows are vinyl. i did it to a house of mine and it changed colors almost right away, and a couple of the windows vinyl actually started to "melt"

it worked great though. I used something similar to this

http://cds.a9t2h4q7.hwcdn.net/main/s..._RDBW24100.jpg



i mean the difference was day and night. I wish I could do it again to the house we live in now. we are too cheap to run the ac. so its between 82-88 degrees in here daily. somedays hotter.

Is that just foil backed bubble wrap? Where did you buy it? Our windows are glass.

[streetglideok]

The new shop I'm going to in a couple of weeks felt pretty comfortable thursday afternoon. It faces east, so that helps as well. Will be glad to get away from the drama I have here now.