Well today I bit the bullet and climbed up into the attic above the garage. No small task mind you since my layout runs directly underneath it. The attic door is less than 2 feet wide and the layout is 2 and half feet wide. I got up there with no damage to the foam layout… All though thank the High all mighty that my fiancee didnt see me do it. She would yelled at me for trying to kill myself.
Well the good news, I found the air ducts above the house in the attic. The line I wanted/hopeing to tap into runs with 5 feet of the attic opening. It will be very easy to grab it and reroute it into the garage. Also, I was midly surprised to see a fair amount of insulation above the ceiling too. It has stayed cooler since I insulated the garage door. Sunday I am off to Home Depot to grab what I need. Sunday nite will begin the testing. Here is hopeing… keep ya posted
thats Great to hear john, Is there instation above the garage ?? hope it works out well ,i dont have any above mine,nor in the walls of the garage,but at least mine face to the north,not est to west
Doh, lucky with the northern face. I really wanted that when we were looking for house. Well, atleast it will keep it warm in the winter
Yup, there is insulation. I dont know how much as it seems its the chopped up messy stuff but it covers the rafters. The one wall that is on the outside of house is brick so it is pretty will insultaed. A bonus is that is faces east and only gets exsposed to a few hours fo sun a day.
I got really lucky with the AC duct work. I am stealing the AC line that goes to a laundry/work room that was add to the house after it was built. That room is hardly used and we can keep it somewhat cool just by keeping the door open. I was very happy to find that they actually ran a whole new duct work all the way back to the main air vent. it will be very easy to cut it, and reroute into the garage. I am pretty hopeful that this will make it pretty nice in there and I can make it through the summer in comfort.
You will love this story being in the garage. A few nites ago, I opened up the door to let in fresh air, as I had done a bunch of weathering. After about 10 minutes I started hearing thumping all over. I had close to a dozen grasshoppers all over my layout. Little suckers knocked over telephone poles, trees, thumped into buildings and one took out a fence. Funny part is I almost ran oner over with my SD70, but jumped at the last second. it took better part of 20 minutes and a tubberware bowl to catch them all. Ha, life in the garage
Omg John thats funny ,lol i would have been shocked ,i had a hudge spyder to catch last weekend,think it was a tranchila ,yes life in the garage you got that right ,let us know how it works out ,
i’ve seen grasshoppers in arizona … one evening the family was out for a drive in southern arizona , i don’t recall the exact area but it was pretty close to the mexican border . we started seeing some kind of living things on the road…first a few , then dozens, then hundreds of them . we pulled over to have a look and it turns out they were grasshoppers , about 3 to 4 inches long ! a couple of us (either the braver or more foolhardy ones) got out to have a closer look .they were big enough that you could easily see their eyes and it was very strange to see these grasshoppers looking back up at us , and as we approached them they would back away
Just a thought on your AC issue. If you duct a line into the garage like you are trying to do make sure there is a provision for return air to the AC unit. If you move out the same amount of air the unit is pumping in then it will work a whole lot better. I live in the north and deal a lot with heating systems that are forced air like your AC unit is. One of the biggest calls we get every winter from new home owners is for poor heating / air flow. When we get there we usually find that the cold air return is blocked by a rug or piece of furniture.
I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but here is something else to consider about ductwork in the garage. Before you move, you may have to un-do that work.
I looked into adding a vent into my garage. I was told that it was against code - because if you ever used the garage as a garage again, there would be a chance that a running car in the garage could introduce carbon monoxide into the rest of the house through the AC ducts.