one room in my house gets hot in the evening that

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Anon08/09/26, 21:19No.3003687

Fan from the outside of the room into the room can help level out the temps, which is a good start. Is it a bedroom? If not, maybe just switch the sensor off in that room and base your AC off other areas?

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Anon08/09/26, 22:20No.3003698

Plant some clumping bamboo in front of your windows.

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Anon08/10/26, 01:10No.3003714

https://youtu.be/nDt-ft7Aj1Q

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Anon08/10/26, 02:50No.3003727

move the thermostat to a different room.

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Anon08/10/26, 12:44No.3003787

Plant a shade tree at least 10 feet away from the outside of that room. After a couple years problem solved. I have cut my cooling in half just with 3 strategically placed trees.

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Anon08/10/26, 13:25No.3003793

pull the thermostat off wall. locate pinout diagram for lv terminals coming out of wall. depending on terminals, if they're pins or lugs or whatever, you can just extend each wire to whatever room you need and plug in there. or get a pair of esp32s to wirelessly relay the signal from the new location to where it was previously plugged in. or just rewire if you're not renting.

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Anon08/10/26, 15:22No.3003801

that room is either not insulated or badly insulated.

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Anon08/11/26, 13:10No.3003965

One simple thing to do is to set the fan in the system to run constantly, not just when the AC or heat is on. This will help equalize the temperature throughout the house by circulating air between the hot and cold rooms.

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Anon08/11/26, 13:49No.3003968

>sun puts too much energy into the room in the evening so I put up curtains that absorb all that energy and radiate it straight into the room Whatever you put over the windows, it has to go on the outside or at least have a very reflective surface. A huge dark mass inside does almost nothing to reduce heat load.

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Anon08/12/26, 23:24No.3004196

I've now added the UV film, in addition to the curtains. If the film has improved anything, it's not substantial. I do think the curtains helped a bit. But point is the room is warm, and the AC is blasting constantly, unable to keep up.That said, there is another, smaller window in that room, which I haven't addressed. Only about 6 bucks for some more film, so I think I will do that and nail in a bed cover to see if doing this other window helps.After that, I will look into the attic and see if I can adjust things to get more juice to the bedroom (grille feels weaker than other rooms').Anyway, the reason I'm not jumping on exterior shades is because it's a rental, and I don't know how to DIY things. So if / when I need to do that, if it involves drilling or anything, I'll want to check with landlord. So that's why I'm starting with cheap things I can do myself.

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Anon08/13/26, 14:46No.3004267

Aside from the solutions that require you to do things that a renter isn't typically allowed to do (like re-insulating the walls/ceiling/roof, or replacing the windows with ones that have better thermal insulating values) the window AC is probably your best solution. It'll cool down the hot room without effecting the rest of the house's cooling and won't require any modifications to the house.

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Anon08/13/26, 16:27No.3004280

at my mom and dad's house that used to be my bedroom, except the HVAC gave no shits about me getting cooked alive up there, so I just added a window unit to my room. simply make sure the window unit is configured such that it only kicks on during the evening when that room gets hot, and you should be good.

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Anon08/14/26, 02:51No.3004364

My god none of you have any contracting experience! I'm so glad I saw this post, I mean offence, you are all kinda retarded.So go in the basement, there should be vent controls on the pipes. Most homes especially older ones have that. Usually you just turn the vent controls from winter to summer. Like pic related. Or in a more modern home you close and open vents to redistribute the air flow to make sure some rooms get more air than others, look up a guide on how to balance airflow. Its probably set to winter, that's why you are roasting.

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Anon08/14/26, 17:24No.3004413

>I want to figure out how to get the room colder. Get a register booster. I had a similar issue with one upstairs bedroom, and all I had to do was buy a register booster fan with a thermstat. If the room got warmer than I wanted, the fan would kick on and pull more air from the HVAC system into that room.Made a 10F difference without having to do anything complicated.

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