Heat Transfer

This past Saturday jmaynard and I moved a few things out of the machine room and into the basement hoping to reduce the house's upstairs temperature. So far, it's working. The basement won't be harmed by a couple degrees increase in temperature and the machine room has been holding at about 78F for the last few days. Granted, other equipment in the machine room has been shut off this week, but this is probably the first time the machine room has been less that 80F without a furnace failure. There is also that the weather has been cooler since the obnoxious heat of this past weekend. This coming weekend might be more of a test of things.

The downstairs (not basement) temperature was holding at 72F, but I've increased the thermostat setting for the air conditioner a bit. If it stays fairly comfortable upstairs, I'll leave it at the higher setting and hopefully make a dent in the electric bill. Even if not, at least I'm not feeling as much heat-induced lethargy.