New house is boiling upstairs, insulation
I know I shouldn’t be surprised. I undoubtedly should expect this, and should have no downside feelings about this fact. However, I can’t help but to feel disgruntled and defeated with this most recent development. What’s going on, you ask? My upstairs level of my house is ungodly hot. Again, and yes, I have lived in a house with a similar floor plan before, and yeah, the boiling air accumulation upstairs was exactly the same. I know I was naive to think that our air quality would be any odd in this new home, despite the fact that I know I fell victim to wishful thinking. Rather than entering our brand new house with the satisfactory expectation that our upstairs family rooms would constantly be ten degrees warmer than the rest of the house, no matter the thermostat settings, I definitely hoped that a higher quality cooling system and house construction would circumvent this air quality nightmare. Well, dreams don’t constantly come true. It turns out that our top floor is just as boiling and humid as could be. Sure, it doesn’t help that our AC component is well over 10 years old, but I’m also pretty sure that the lack of attic insulation isn’t helping our cause either. Whenever the house inspector stuck her head up into the attic, she let us know that that present insulation was in poor shape. There was little heat being trapped inside or outside of the house with the 2 inches of aged insulation present, and she proposed we have it replaced immediately for energy efficiency. Well, we had superb intentions in demanding that the seller replaced the insulation, but they had their own ideas about energy expenditure… By that, I mean they spent as little energy as possible to install yet another layer of poor quality insulation. Now the house is all ours, and our top floor is still as boiling as ever.