During the summer months, almost all space inside of the house, particularly garage will become unfriendly or not-tolerate place. Cooling a garage during summer usually requires more effort and higer energy than when other areas or rooms of the homes like living room, bedroom, etc. It is normal situation because we know well that the hot temperature level in the garage is similar like kitchen area which usually higher than other rooms (can reach more than 37 degrees Celsius). Your garage should be kept tolerate into the normal temperature (around 25-28 degrees Celsius), particularly if you have a personal projects or repairs in there.
Ok, let’s explore how to cool garage optimally and efficiently. There are some options and methods on how to do it, from ideas that will require simple mechanisms to other options that need elaborate mechanisms. One of super simple ideas is by opening the doors or windows of your garage if you have a project that must be finished in there. This simple idea will make the air circulation of the inside be well. But overall using home cooling appliances, like portable air conditioners or portable swamp cooler unit is one of the most popular choices to make the garage becomes more tolerate area to your body during summer months. And usually the efficiency is the frequently problem when using those air cooling appliances.
Back to the topic, below are some simple ideas on how to make your garage have more friendly temperature during the hottest temperature of summer days:
- If you seriously want to cool your garage efficiently then installing the insulation to your garage is one of the elementary points. But unfortunately, there are many homeowners that ignore this point. The insulation is identically with the energy saving option! It means the proper installation will make your air conditioning system does not work hardly in your garage. Overall, the proper insulation is so helpful to eliminate the energy loss so thus will be helpful to encourage the lower utility bills that we have to pay monthly.
- There are some types of air conditioners to cool the garage. But which is the best one that you should choose? In fact, cooling of garage is infrequent. Therefore it is not money valuable if you choose to install central air conditioning unit in there. Based on this situation, using portable AC units or window units is more recommended. Unfortunately, portable ac models or window units cannot work as optimal as like central ac systems and on the other hand the hot temperature level in the garage is higher than other rooms in the house. So consider the size carefully! Make sure the size that you choose is powerful enough to cool your garage! It is so recommended to user units that has higher than 14,000 BTUs for the size, depending the large size of your garage.
- If portable or window air conditioning unit is too expensive for our budget, then by installing attic fan or ceiling fan is not too bad idea. Make it better by installing the fan at higher position like near the ceiling. This idea will be helpful to make the fan can work optimally.
- The other recommendation is by installing or using evaporative coolers, especially their portable model. They can cool the air almost powerful like air conditioner and will work optimally if your local area is qualified to use them. The working mechanism of evaporative coolers is influenced by two major important factors; (1) the humidity level and (2) the outside temperature. For more detailed information about, you can contact or ask to a HVAC contractor in your local area to make sure that your local area is qualified to use them!
- In addition, make ensure the garage has adequate space for air circulation. And after using your car or your motorcycle, it is better to allow them to cool down for a few minutes, because parking a hot car inside immediately will increase the temperature of the room.
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