Hoping for some practical suggestions ... Desperately trying to find a way to cool down the bedrooms in our 1930s style chalet bungalow which was built in the 1950s. Apparently its not a conversion and was built as a chalet bungalow. In winter the temp drops to a low of 14 degrees which is not ideal but is ok but at the moment it's still 24degrees at 9 pm at night. We have a 15 month old and that kind of heat is not great.
The two bedrooms upstairs are separated by a normal if steep staircase. There's one long dormer along the front of the house (west facing) which provides windows to the two bedrooms and the staircase. These windows are badly double glazed and don't open. Each bedroom also has its own dormer window which does open. Before we moved in, we had Celatex 125mm thick installed between the sloping rafters and the ceilings replastered. We couldn't fit celatex on the sides or rooves of the dormer windows because there wasn't enough space so these aren't insulated at all. We left the non sloping internal concrete block walls alone. The attic space (a narrow passageway in the eaves which runs around the two bedrooms) has maybe 75mm thick yellow fibreglass? insulation. I'm not sure if the attic space is vented particularly well but as that's not the bit we live in, does that matter?
We think we have to install better double glazing (and reduce the size of the windows so that we can celatex the dormers) but we are not sure what else we should or could do. Is the problem in fact fixable? How can we get the hot air to escape? For some reason we can't get a draft to flow between the open bedroom doors and the two dormer windows that do open. If the new double glazing in the long dormer at the front of the house could be opened, would that create a draft when combined wit) the other open windows? We are currently using a fan in the toddler's bedroom but it's not very effective.
Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.
to find a way to cool the upstairs bedrooms in the summer.
The two bedrooms upstairs are separated by a normal if steep staircase. There's one long dormer along the front of the house (west facing) which provides windows to the two bedrooms and the staircase. These windows are badly double glazed and don't open. Each bedroom also has its own dormer window which does open. Before we moved in, we had Celatex 125mm thick installed between the sloping rafters and the ceilings replastered. We couldn't fit celatex on the sides or rooves of the dormer windows because there wasn't enough space so these aren't insulated at all. We left the non sloping internal concrete block walls alone. The attic space (a narrow passageway in the eaves which runs around the two bedrooms) has maybe 75mm thick yellow fibreglass? insulation. I'm not sure if the attic space is vented particularly well but as that's not the bit we live in, does that matter?
We think we have to install better double glazing (and reduce the size of the windows so that we can celatex the dormers) but we are not sure what else we should or could do. Is the problem in fact fixable? How can we get the hot air to escape? For some reason we can't get a draft to flow between the open bedroom doors and the two dormer windows that do open. If the new double glazing in the long dormer at the front of the house could be opened, would that create a draft when combined wit) the other open windows? We are currently using a fan in the toddler's bedroom but it's not very effective.
Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.
to find a way to cool the upstairs bedrooms in the summer.
