We live in NC and me and my husband have a hard time staying cool in the bedroom at night. we keep our thermostat on 70 degrees and the rest of the house stays cool, but we burn up at night. what can be causing this! we both wake up every morning sweating! i hate this! please help! No perverted answers please! i am being serious!
2006-09-27 06:20:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
its hot out and i dont want to sleep with the window open when its 80 degrees outside. we also have a fan in our room that stays on high every night and we have even turned the AC down to 65 degrees but its still hot!
2006-09-27 06:24:40 · update #1
Heat rises. You need a way to vent off the heat in your room and let the cooler from the house flow in. The hot air gets trapped. Try fans to blow it out or a small a/c unit just for the bedroom.
2006-09-27 06:24:02 · answer #1 · answered by Steve M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have the opposite problem, our bedroom is freezing while other areas a warm. Often, the problem is the design of your ducting. The ducts from your AC/furnace are too small to push enough air into you bedroom.
Also, the return register for the AC/furnace is usually in a hallway. When you close your bedroom door at night, you cut off the return air from your room. This leaves the hot air just sitting there and less room for the new, cooler air.
Solutions:
- Get a HVAC professional in to redo your ducts. Either increase the size of the duct to your room or add a return register in the bedroom.
- Leave your bedroom door open at night
- Close the AC vents in rooms or areas that are used less or which are disproportionately cool, this will force more air to your bedroom.
- Use a ceiling or standing fan to curculate air in the room
2006-09-27 06:30:14 · answer #2 · answered by Wundt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just open a window. Sometimes certain people can radiate a lot of body heat. Sleep with a fan blowing on you. Turn heat down lower than 70.
Okay can you place a/c in bedroom window. Have it blow right on you. Sleep naked no blakets cover up with top sheet
2006-09-27 06:22:51 · answer #3 · answered by sabbycat76 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its possible that lights or lamps are heating the room or that just takes in a large amount of heat. I have the same problem and whenever there is two many people in my room or the lights are left on the room absorbs the body heat and electrical heat, so what i did was i had a house fan (which is a large fan that you put in the attic over the ceiling)installed where i can just open the windows and the fan brings in the cool air from outside so it stays cool in the house.
2006-09-27 06:28:36 · answer #4 · answered by etnie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First thing, I would try a ceiling fan in the bedroom......
If that doesn't work, you may need to get a heating and air guy in there....they should be able to adjust the dampers so that there is better air flow to the vents in your bedroom.
2006-09-27 06:32:07 · answer #5 · answered by jrsgurl62 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a few things that have worked for me, take a box fan and place it directly in the window pointing in. It will take the cooler air outside and blow it in. Another thing that can be a hassle, but really works, before bed put some cool water in your bathtub and dip your sheets in the water and wring them out before putting them on the bed damp, but the evaporation of the water really cools you down. I use a tub to dip sheets on campouts all the time, but a water proof mattress pad is highly recommended so the moisture doesn't get down inside your mattress.
2016-03-18 01:57:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you in a two story house? If you are then naturally the heat will rise and upstairs will always be hotter then downstairs. Also if you are over a garage, then your room will be hotter because the garage will be hotter. Finally, if your room is the last room that gets the sun as it sets, it will be hotter.
Open windows upstairs/downstairs to get the air circulating out of the room
2006-09-27 06:28:46 · answer #7 · answered by travis94303 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the same problem its because the hotwater heater is in the wall behind my room. Is the hot water heater any where near your room if so that my be the cause. We had ours removed. Good luck. I don't blame you I would't want to open my window either.
2006-09-27 06:28:58 · answer #8 · answered by Teeley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your roof is low that could result in heat being trapped in your bedroom.
2006-09-27 06:25:08 · answer #9 · answered by RACQUEL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy a whole house fan. It takes the air from outside and brings it through the house into the attic, cooling the attic.
These people sell a good one.
http://www.wholehousefan.com/
2006-09-27 06:26:54 · answer #10 · answered by KQ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋