3 TIPS ON HOW TO KEEP YOUR GARAGE COOL DURING SUMMER - BONUS TIP TO KEEP YOU COOLER THIS SUMMER

[@JK_Nex_Garage]

Excellent way to stay cool. Especially the bonus tip #4. Thanks for sharing.👍

[@ArrowheadGarage]

It's always the bonus tip that is better than all the others hahahahahahahaha

[@sunset1300]

I too live in Arizona. I have that exact same swamp cooler, but I use it on the patio when friends are over. As far as the garage goes, I put roll in insulation totaling R32 in the attic. I then cut foam 1 1/2 inch R-Tech foam for the garage door. Next I installed a 14,000 btu mini split heat and cool unit. I keep the garage at 80 all the time, never open the door unless I need to move something in or out and I do it fast. I am SRP and I monitor it daily, only costs about $1 a day.

[@BuffsGarage]

Great tips and tricks

[@ArrowheadGarage]

Not sure these tips would work out at the NEW BUFF's OKLAHOMA SHOP HQ with all that humidity... but its a NEW SHOP! Congrats on that!

[@BuffsGarage]

@@ArrowheadGarage well when it finally happens yes!! Maybe I need to invite a certain Pontiac loving air conditioning expert down to give me some tips once I actually land at a permanent location!

[@CarShowclub]

Great tips Brian! We bought a swamp cooler for our travel trailer and powered it with a jackery like power pack. Best investment ever. It would last about 4-5 hours just enough to cool down during the day.

[@ArrowheadGarage]

Vinny its a game changer out here in the Southwest (Barrels) area :)

[@JoeEngineer]

Solid tips from the surface of the sun, AZ! Hope all is well! 🤙

[@ArrowheadGarage]

Appreciate it! These 110 plus days are melting us! lol

[@marcellemay7721]

It's like 94 degrees here in east TN with 50% humidity right now. Which is actually kinda dry for this area in the summer. My garage is a huge 40x60 with 12ft ceilings. It's insulated but It'd be way too expensive to cool this place with central air. I have 2 huge garage doors on either end of the garage that I open and then I have a big harbor freight pedestal fan that i use and point it right in the area where I'm working. In the late afternoons the sun beats right into one of those garage doors so I close it, but leave it open enough to still get some cross breeze in the garage. The big ass fan blowing right on me is the only thing that makes it tolerable. When all else fails and I absolutely gotta get some work done. I'll take a nap in the afternoon during the heat of the day in my air conditioned house and go in the garage in the evenings. I live in the country so I can make all the noise i want in the middle of the night.

[@ArrowheadGarage]

Oh man yea if you have that humidity these swap coolers wont do anything for you :(

[@BadAttitudeC-10]

Great tips!

[@michaelgutzmer3303]

I disagree of your methodology. First, insulate your garage door. (they have kits for this and it's cheap ) Keep your side door closed and install a small window air conditioner. I live in Florida and the humidity will kill you. Doing this will make your garage as comfortable as your home.

[@ArrowheadGarage]

I have to agree with you Mike… if I lived in Florida or any part of the Great America 🇺🇸 with humidity I wouldn’t go with a swap cooler like I have here is Arizona. A Mister Cool a/c unit or etc would be ideal but will be a bit more pricey. And yes adding insulation to the metal garage door would give some help. Thanks for watching and dropping a suggestion.

[@bbb462cid]

I have insulted various parts of my garage many times, including the door, and it never helped.

[@a9ball1]

If the roof of your garage is open to the sun then insulating the roof will help. If your house is above the garage then I wouldn't.

[@jeffmeredith9094]

I insulationed my doors and my the attic of my 2 car garage and put a 14000 btu AC unit and foam and weather stripping around my door in it keeps it in the 70s and its 95 with a heat index in Baltimore of 107...

[@randylavallie824]

I live in Surprise az and I have the same cooler and what I did was insulated my garage door with 1.5” thick (4x8) sheets , I think I used like (4) on a two car garage . Big one is the ceiling exhaust fan keeps the humidity out , and I can tell when I forget to turn it on lol . When it’s 112 out side inside my garage will be 85

[@jaimemartinez1414]

I have pretty much the same cooler, I cut out the grill in the front where you can add water but I also add a lot of ice. It feels soooo good. :-)

[@ericanton8151]

Woohoo he is a Pontiac guy 👍

[@ArrowheadGarage]

You must be a Poncho guy as well Eric!!

[@ericanton8151]

@@ArrowheadGarage yes indeed i am, sadly i no longer own one

[@rolandperez4284]

Maybe also getting some spray foam insulation in the attic I know mine don't have any, yet.

[@ArrowheadGarage]

That is next on my list to do!!! Great tip thank you!

[@bbb462cid]

...subbed just because you're a Poncho guy

[@ArrowheadGarage]

Well hell yes!!! Thank you sir!!!

[@1982elusive]

got one of these at Home Depot. I turned on the pump for 15 mins, then turned the fan on after 30 mins I went to the garage and it smells like pee/plastic/mold. Any idea why? any info would help. Thanks

[@ArrowheadGarage]

These swap coolers need air flow… gotta open a window or door to create a “breeze” for them to work correctly

[@arcanewyrm6295]

Swamp coolers are great in arid environments like the desert southwest. But anywhere humid, like the rest of the country, swamp cooler effectiveness drops rapidly with the presence of humidity. Having lived in the Mojave desert for several years, I can say that swamp coolers ("evaporative" coolers) are AWESOME when you have 10, 15, even 30% humidity. It was regularly in triple digits during summer, and one wall- mounted swamp cooler kept my entirely uninsulated 980-square-foot home a VERY comfortable, almost chilly 75° inside. LOVED it, and so much cheaper than air conditioning. But here in Ohio when it's like today was, 93°F and 80% humidity, swamp coolers are completely useless. THAT is when they make it feel muggy. There's too much moisture in the air already, and sweat just lingers instead of evaporating and having a cooling effect. Adding more humidity to already saturated hot air just compounds the issue. One hack you *_could_* try, though, is dumping a bag of ice in the cooler's water tub before adding the water to it. That way you more effectively _chill_ the air it is blowing out, instead of just using room-temp water to absorb heat from drier air being sucked into the cooler.

[@ArrowheadGarage]

So true, swap coolers only work in the dry heat!

[@Czechbound]

It's a sweltering 95F here in Prague, CZ. With some humidity. And getting hotter by the day. Most places don't have A/C. We're all wilting. My apartment is on the top floor of a 6 floor apartment. It's new, but badly insulated. With a zinc covered flat roof. So my living room is like an oven :-). The neighbours have their newborn baby in the pram in the corridor as it's cooler ( very common thing for Czech people to do ). They are inside watching TV. The child is asleep and unmonitored. As an Irishman, I thought this was very strange when I first came here. But it's even more weird in the winter, when Czech people will routinely leave toddlers asleep in the pram all wrapped up. Outside on their balcony when it's 0C outside. They believe it's good for their health.

[@ArrowheadGarage]

I have a buddy who is Czech and that dude is the hardest working guy I know... Maybe they know something us crazy Western's don't?

[@a9ball1]

Man I live in Seattle and that baby would be gone in 60 seconds. If you leave anything out it will disappear.

[@Czechbound]

@@ArrowheadGarage Here in Prague, the work hours in offices for older people have an echo of Communist times ( when the regular shift was 06:00 to 15:00 ). So the older people in the office will be in and working for 7am. But by 15:30 they are going home. Even thought the set hours are 09:00 to 17:00. On Fridays, everyone heads for the door before 16:00, as they want to leave Prague for their holiday cottages ( small houses within approx 60km of Prague. A throwback to Communist times when nobody could get an exist visa, so your holiday was generally in country, with a few able to drive (if they had a car ! ) to Croatia ( another Communist type country that would give Visas to Commie comrades ). The Czechs work hard, but because the education system is "learn by rote", they don't have the capacity for blue sky thinking. Set them a list of tasks, and they'll go after it. Present them with a blank piece of paper and ask them to sketch out a solution to a problem and you'll get nothing. I'm generalising, but all us Westerns living here have the same experience .....

[@Czechbound]

@@a9ball1 It is kinda weird here alright. People will go into the corner store for 10 minutes to pick up some groceries and leave their sleeping baby/ toddler in the pram outside the shop. You see it all the time here. Nobody pays any mind to it. Weird, right !

[@GoGoGarage]

Thanks for sharing! - What size shirt do you wear?

[@ArrowheadGarage]

My big ass is a 2XL lol

[@The_slowest_buuurn]

Great video!! I'm looking at a mirror image of my own garage, also in the PHX area. It's south-facing, so it gets pummeled by sun, and also with those stupid windows on the top row of the garage door (whoever designed these garage doors deserves to be strapped to a rocket and shot to the moon) Every summer we avoid being in the garage. Not this summer! I'm on a mission to cool it down. Phase I is insulating the metal garage door with foam boards (with foil against the garage door panel), my order arrives this week. Phase II will be installing a fan on the garage vent outlet high up on the wall to get the hot air out. It's directly above another vent at the ankles. Unfortunately I don't have a side door like yours Phase III will be buying that Hessaire swamp cooler you recommended in your video! Thanks a bunch! Enjoy that frosty beverage - the mountains on that can are nice and blue! 🥶Cheers 🍻

[@ArrowheadGarage]

Heck ya, we need to take back our garages in the summer!!! TIP: before you put the cooler away for the winter, run a few gallons of DISTILLED WATER in it, help clean out all the tap water junk!

[@Clouds-su3dc]

How about having a white coloured garage from the outside for it to have the ability to for your garage to reflect the sunlight back to space to keep heat away to keep your inside of your garage cooler automatically. 👍

[@ArrowheadGarage]

That would be awesome but my HOA won't allow it :(

[@Clouds-su3dc]

Oh dang because that would’ve really helped with the garage being way cooler.

[@Clouds-su3dc]

But I still may have good news for you because you can try to use reflective siding material, covering your outside garage to reflect the sunlight without having it to be painted white and it reflects the same amount as having a white garage.

[@jdogj]

Yeah let in all the spiders and cockroaches and mosquitoes flies. what ever else And if I leave my garage like that, my car is covered with flying termites 🤦‍♂️

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

Best tip for not working in a hot garage........ Don't go out there. LOL

[@ArrowheadGarage]

lol I AGREE lol

[@aaronburt1103]

Or buy an ac for 250$ and have it ice cold

[@ArrowheadGarage]

The AC system I am considering is around $2000.00 but worth it for being in the shop 8-10 hours a day

[@chrisdc1689]

69 LOL