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I have one room in my house, a southeast facing room, that gets damn
hot...the rest of the house can be 72 degrees and this room will still
be in the 80s with a ceiling fan going full blast (i live in Houston,
Texas)...the room is also over the garage....it has one window that
faces south and is double paned and one door that is double paned that
faces east to an outside porch...i am thinking about having extra
insulation injected into the walls

my questions to this great group are

1) do you think the extra insulation in the walls will help
2) what is the deal with reflective insulation and should i consider
adding that to the mix
3) are there any suggestions in general to get this room more in line
with the rest of the house and keep it cool...it is my office and i
have to move into the kitchen in the summer!

This may sound very silly and obvious, but do you have a computer on in
that room for long durations? I had a friend who complained that their
room was always much hotter than the rest of the house (and it was).
The problem turned out to be that they had a computer in that room that
was on for 12-18 hours per day, and their computer generated a lot of
heat. Certain CPU brands and models generate much more heat than
others. For example, the Intel P4s, and AMD 64 FX CPUs are big
generators of heat, and some models generate over 100W of heat
continuously.

-- I forgot to specify that the 100W of heat is from the CPU alone.
So for a whole computer, throw in an advanced video card, a 500 Watt
power supply, a high RPM hard drive,

The CPU/MB and drives uses the power from the power supply and exudes it
as heat. Of that 500watt power supply, only what it wastes, a small
amount, they are quite efficient, is dissipated as heat.

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If I had something witty to say, this is where I'd say it.