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Need advice......
My parents bought a new (to us) house. I am in the room with NO heat run, yet it's one of the hotttest rooms in the house. The deed states the house as being built in the early 1900s, though we think it's more like in the '20s. It has a newer furnace (1998), and blow in isulation. There is almost 10 inches of the blown in stuff in the attic, and who know what is in the walls. It's so hot in this room I have had to open the windows when it was 20 or below outside..... The room below is HOT too...
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This is the odd thing, the rest of the house is warm, but not like these two rooms. They are also the smallest rooms (minus the bathroom) in the place..... I may suggest that, we just got our gas bill, it was outrageous for a 90+ furnace.... I fear we may have a small leak somewhere....
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Well the topic of this thread is "Need Advice" so I will assume you want advice on how to cool down your room.
What you are facing is probably a couple different methods of heat exchange. You say the room below is hot as well - that is radiated heat. You probably face convected heat as well from air circulation in the house. What you will need to do is to extract the heat somehow. The best way to do this is to vent it to the outside. Open your window and put a fan near it to blow the hot air out the window. Just opening the window will not do enough to cool your room off - you need to help the air move.
As a firefighter, I have to deal with heated air in buildings and getting it out as well. We use very powerful fans to "pressurize" the building and force air out. But you can move the air out as I describe above and it will help to cool your room down and draw some of the heat from below and send it outside also.
And as Torque1st said, you need to get an HVAC guy over to see what is causing this problem.
What you are facing is probably a couple different methods of heat exchange. You say the room below is hot as well - that is radiated heat. You probably face convected heat as well from air circulation in the house. What you will need to do is to extract the heat somehow. The best way to do this is to vent it to the outside. Open your window and put a fan near it to blow the hot air out the window. Just opening the window will not do enough to cool your room off - you need to help the air move.
As a firefighter, I have to deal with heated air in buildings and getting it out as well. We use very powerful fans to "pressurize" the building and force air out. But you can move the air out as I describe above and it will help to cool your room down and draw some of the heat from below and send it outside also.
And as Torque1st said, you need to get an HVAC guy over to see what is causing this problem.
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There isn't a heat run in this room, if the wind is blowing from the right direction it cools off quite nicely, but on a hot night like tonight no dice. I say I think we have a leak. It may have just been the crude seeping up through the soil too... Here in the county (and area of the county) where I live we have the one of the highest concentrations of crude in the state. The snow, and ice melting plus the rain is reaking havoc on the soil.. The whole yard is a huge muddy mess. So it's possible they were drilling a new well.. I didn't notice the smell though until after they'd opened the basement door (on the outside of the house).
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pfogle; If you have these additional problems it is DEFINITELY time to call in the professionals! Smells and leaks are something that needs to be addressed. You didn't say but do you have a oil-fired furnace? Do you have a buried fuel tank? If so it may be leaking that may need to be dug up and replaced (big bucks!) But whatever the cause, it needs to be investigated and whatever is causing it fixed.
Be careful with this...smells can also be dangerous. Fumes and Carbon Monoxide could be hazardous to your health. This probelm needs attention quick!
Be careful with this...smells can also be dangerous. Fumes and Carbon Monoxide could be hazardous to your health. This probelm needs attention quick!
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It's natural gas. I don't think there's a tank, there may have been as there is a huge hole in the basement floor. I think it's time to get a sniffer, we had one some years ago but now I have no clue what house it ended up at... The problem is that there really isn't anyone in the immeidate area that knows anything... We seem to have the largest population of half-witted techs on the planet. I'm hopin I can track it down tomorrow.... Now that I think about it. I'm doubting there is a leak. The only other time I smelled that same smell at this house was when we first looked at it. It's a different smell than that of natural gas, it's more like old heating oil. It may just be a lingering smell from an old tank, that was removed who knows when.
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Pfogle, you can also use dish washing soap and water mixed in a spray bottle to do your leak detecting. Spray it on fitting and joints and look for bubbles, if you see bubbles you have a leak.
Being a former HVAC tech have someone look at the room you are talking about, something just doesn't sound right there.
Being a former HVAC tech have someone look at the room you are talking about, something just doesn't sound right there.
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