Parts of the house getting hot

My living room gets pretty hot sometimes because it faces to the west and we keep the blinds and curtains open so the afternoon sun makes it hot. If someone leaves the front door open the sun shines through the glass storm door and adds even more heat to that area. My bedroom is the coolest room in the house. I live in south Florida so there's usually no such thing as cold here. Sometimes we get down to *chilly* in the morning but it warms up by the afternoon.

Our house is always hotter upstairs due to the heat rising, but for some reason my teenage sons room gets like a sauna. Many times, I have gone in there to check he doesn't have his heater on, but he never does. I know he has his pc in there but that can't generate that much heat. Even in the middle of winter he doesn't need to ever have his heater on, which saves me money, and saves the air drying out in his room.

Hi, I think this is pretty normal. I have air conditioning in my house and it is always way cooler downstairs than upstairs. It is because the vents are stronger downstairs. In terms of your computer room, computers really heat places up. If you do not want it to be too warm in there your will need to turn the computer off when it is not in use. cheers,

Our house is a three storey house and so in a good summer (which we have not had for the last two summers) the top part of the house becomes like a greenhouse and gets incredibly hot. The downstairs is always the coldest part of the house and it is awful in winter trying to keep it warm.

Hi , It seems to be the hottest in the upstairs bedrooms . Esp the little bed room , and this is even when the ac is on . It takes awhile for all the cold air to reach up stairs . Crazy but sometimes it is hard to sleep still .

My bedroom is the hottest room. We did not put the A/C in this year, trying to conserve energy. There is an A/C in the living room, and the kitchen is right next to the living room. I keep the ceiling fan on in the kitchen. But when I cook both rooms becomes warmer. Actually last night, being so hot, my smart husband decides to close the bedroom door so that all the air could stay in the living room and kitchen area. Well, when I opened that door to go to bed, the heat hit me like a bat. It was so hot in there it was unbelievable. After leaving the door opened for awhile, it cooled off enough to get to sleep. Another scorcher for today as well.

I have some rooms in my house that are like that in the summer. One thing I do that makes a huuuuuuuge difference is that I close the drapes on the side of the house that the sun is shining from. My Aunt gave me that tip years ago, and it really helps a lot. If the sun is shining full on my picture window, the drape is closed...once it moves to the next side of the house, I reopen those and shut those on the side that faces the sun. There is a big difference in the house if I don't do that. Yes, it seems like a pain in the butt lol, but without the sun beating on the window and amplifying the heat into the room, I'm willing to make concessions. It keeps the rooms so much cooler that I really haven't had to keep the fan on as much. My house is a century home with zero insulation in the walls, it's actually amazing that something so simple can do so much. In the winter, it's the exact reverse. I keep the drapes closed on the non-sun side of the house (especially if it's windy) and on the sun side I keep the blinds and drapes open. In the winter the living room is like an ice box, no matter what. But when the sun is shining on the picture window I don't even need a sweater, then it stays warm in there all day. It's a huge living room, about 20 X 35 feet (at least) so it makes a definite difference.

I live in a 3 bedroom flat and the front of it gets the afternoon sun, while the back part gets the morning one. The flat can get very hot in summer, especially since we live on the 7th and last floor. On hot days what I try to do is to always have a current of air flowing through the house and I do that by leaving windows open on both sides.

The upstairs of our house is always warmer, for obvious reasons of heat rising. In the summer, it can get pretty uncomfortable sometimes. We insulated the attic and installed ceiling fans in all the bedrooms upstairs, plus the living room and kitchen downstairs. It really helped a lot but it still gets a little warm on really hot sunny days. Other than that, there isn't really much else we can do other than install a zoned system. Even then, I think the cool air would still just end up going down the stairwell anyway.

Hi o2bnocn, I would say that the hottest part of our house is our computer room too...As much as I want to have a straight time working here, I will be forced to take a break and go outside to breath some fresh air!LOL! When we want to save the electricity, we will just leave our main door as well as kitchen door open to it's really cool and fresh in those part of the house!

There are parts of my house which is hotter than the others and usually during certain times of the day when it gets a lot of exposure to sunlight. My wife had some branches of the trees pruned and this has caused the sun to have access to the glass windows.

I'll tell you a funny story about rooms that are too warm. While my kids were growing up, we had a three bedroom house. It took quite sometime to find the right one because I had two girls and one son. A four bedroom house was out of the question, and this house had one bedroom large enough for twin beds and my daughters shared it. My son got his own bedroom and the girls understood, but I'm sure they wished for their own bedroom as well. It turned out, for no reason we could figure out, that my son's bedroom was the hottest room in the house. We tried everything. Closing blinds, adjusting AC vents, adding a ceiling fan, nothing made any difference. When me moved to a new house, my oldest daughter had moved out, so I only had the one daughter and my son. My son wasn't there the day we moved in and his sister got first pick of the bedrooms. As soon as my son came home, he said "Let me guess, I got the hot bedroom again." And so he did! We couldn't find a way to keep that room cool either, same as the last house. I think my son took it personally, with a good bit of humour. After he moved out, his old room became the computer room. the room remained the hottest room in the house. I think when he visited us, it gave him great satisfaction knowing he wasn't cursed with hot bedrooms, just bad luck.

The basement isn't too bad. The main floor (living room, kitchen) is really hot, but we have an air conditioner. However, the floor above where the bedrooms are equal hell. I was in my room all day today because the computer was occupied. I just had a fan on and it wasn't helping at all, lol.

Yes, my daughters room is freezing all the time. But it is also the first room to get hot. It is really weird. I like sleeping in there when she is a way because it stays so cold and I sleep so well. All the bedrooms stay cooler than the living room and kitches. I am not sure why maybe more windows more space.