Colder On Floor Or Window

How to keep a second floor warmer.
Colder on floor or window. More radical folks change the flooring. If the second floor of your home stays cold in the winter even when the first floor is toasty it may indicate that your home is improperly insulated or ventilated. Because your problem is created by a lack of room for warm heated air to circulate between the floor joists we have to find a way to allow that to happen while maintaining a proper level of insulation. Concrete clay or other masonry does a great job of holding heat even if it s colder than we d like.
Some include floor heating in tiles. Hardwood tile and linoleum floors are colder than carpeted ones because the carpeting provides extra insulation on the floors. How to reconfigure a window air conditioner to get colder than 61 deg. A quick and inexpensive way to make a window refrigerated air conditioner make a room colder.
Combined with thermal bridging through the floor joists which are almost directly exposed to the cold outside temperatures it will make the floor surface feel cooler than the surrounding floor.