I have an enormous sun load. It's a new development, and I've just started landscaping (and very few of my neighbors have), so there are essentially no trees. The house is brown stucco. It's oriented less than a degree from true N/S/E/W (future archaeologists will go nuts trying to figure out the significance
). The master bedroom is on the south face, upstairs, with 2 windows on the south side. I've got blackout shades, and I keep them closed nearly all the time.
Another question - the house proper is a rectangle with gable ends, long dimension N/S. The garage is at the south end of that, sticking out perpendicular, to the east, with a gable end at the front. The master bedroom has one window on the east side that overlooks the north half of the garage roof. During the day, the garage attic gets murderously hot. Not long ago, I was up there with some hand tools and screws for not more than 15 minutes, and in that time, the tools & screws literally got hot to the touch - that's how hot it gets. So here's the question: is the heat from that attic contributing to the hot upstairs, and particularly the master bedroom (I expect that's a "no duh") - so what can I do about that? There's an uninsulated "gable end" inside the attic where it meets the house.
