New house is hot upstairs, insulation
I know I shouldn’t be surprised. I definitely should expect this, and should have no negative 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 home is ungodly hot. Again. Yes, I have lived in a home with a similar floor plan before, and yes, the hot air accumulation upstairs was exactly the same. I know I was naive to think that our air quality would be any different in this new home, but I guess I fell victim to wishful thinking. Rather than entering our brand new home with the reasonable expectation that our upstairs bedrooms would constantly be ten degrees warmer than the rest of the house, no matter the thermostat settings, I really hoped that a higher quality cooling system and home construction would circumvent this air quality nightmare. Well, dreams don’t always come true. It turns out that our top floor is just as hot and humid as could be. Sure, it doesn’t help that our AC unit 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 home inspector stuck his head up into the attic, he let us know that that present insulation was in poor shape. There was little heat being trapped inside or outside of the home with the 2 inches of old insulation present, and he suggested we have it replaced immediately for energy efficiency. Well, we had good 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 home is all ours, and our top floor is still as hot as ever.