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Not sure if this is house and/or health-related. I have a cape cod and the upstairs bedroom is horribly hot - I've tried the tower fan on all night but end up w/a terrible sinus headache - what to do?? It's already so hot and it's only early July.
Not sure if this is house and/or health-related. I have a cape cod and the upstairs bedroom is horribly hot - I've tried the tower fan on all night but end up w/a terrible sinus headache - what to do?? It's already so hot and it's only early July.
I grew up in a cape. My bedroom was upstairs....I would sweat all night long, in the heat of the summer, and I had three windows. My parents put in a window AC. I think that is the only answer.
We have a west-facing townhouse with a single AC unit and thermostat downstairs. For our son's bedroom, which is the hottest of all due to a solid wall of windows, we put up solar film and high-quality thermal room-darkening curtains to block the source as best we could. This wasn't enough, so we ended up buying a portable AC (our only option, since HOA doesn't allow window units).
The other rooms upstairs are also pretty warm. Recently, we adjusted the air flow from the vents on the bottom floor to push more to the top floor, and that has done a great job of balancing everything out.
I grew up in a cape. My bedroom was upstairs....I would sweat all night long, in the heat of the summer, and I had three windows. My parents put in a window AC. I think that is the only answer.
I agree. I have two vents from the heat pump to the upstairs MBR in my Cape Cod, but they're inadequate as far as cooling it. The in-wall AC pretty much does the trick though. I don't even go into the adjacent closet unless it's early morning or a rainy day in the summer though - it's an absolute oven.
I grew up in a cape. My bedroom was upstairs....I would sweat all night long, in the heat of the summer, and I had three windows. My parents put in a window AC. I think that is the only answer.
We have a west-facing townhouse with a single AC unit and thermostat downstairs. For our son's bedroom, which is the hottest of all due to a solid wall of windows, we put up solar film and high-quality thermal room-darkening curtains to block the source as best we could. This wasn't enough, so we ended up buying a portable AC (our only option, since HOA doesn't allow window units).
The other rooms upstairs are also pretty warm. Recently, we adjusted the air flow from the vents on the bottom floor to push more to the top floor, and that has done a great job of balancing everything out.
I'll have to check into them more - limited hand strength though. Thanks.
Not sure if this is house and/or health-related. I have a cape cod and the upstairs bedroom is horribly hot - I've tried the tower fan on all night but end up w/a terrible sinus headache - what to do?? It's already so hot and it's only early July.
Well, all the fan can do is move already hot air around. It can't lower its temperature. A fan makes you feel cooler primarily because moving air speeds up heat transfer off your skin and helps perspiration evaporate. The air that's being pushed by the fan may not actually be cooler temperature-wise. Of course, if that air is really humid and/or close to body temperature it won't work nearly as well.
If the outside air at night happens to end up cooler than the air sitting in those upper story rooms, using a fan to pull it in through open windows can lower the temperature. If you don't want to open windows because of humidity, pollen, noise or whatever, you're stuck cooling it with AC. People who can't/won't use AC to cool the upper story of their houses plan to sleep downstairs or in basements when it's hot.
Aren't there OTC meds that relieve sinus headaches? I don't get them so don't know which work. In addition to sleeping downstairs, a fan, that may help you get some sleep.
Last edited by Parnassia; 07-05-2023 at 02:34 PM..
Warm air rises, cool air drops. If you have central air, close all the downstairs vents and open the upstairs. Do the opposite in winter.
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