We live in a top floor which is right below the terrace of an apartment in chennai.
Top floor apartment heat insulation.
Also ceiling and wall insulation makes a huge difference.
4d extend insulation into joist space to reduce air flows.
4c as an alternative to floor insulation foundation walls of unvented crawl spaces.
When the attic temperature elevate this heat radiates into your apartment or home through the ceiling and walls.
The insulation in your flat will ultimately decide how much higher and lower the bills will be.
Also if the bulding is very tall 30 floors or more you actually could be cooler on the top floor due to less radiated heat from the ground warming the flat.
Again it s the opposite living on the bottom floor compared to the top floor.
The air conditioning wasn t terribly good and we had a lot of heat producing equipment.
Living on the bottom floor makes your apartment a much easier target and therefore you ll have to take extra precautions.
So in this case you should adopt for some top floor apartment heat insulation processes.
During summer heat from the terrace radiates into the house and it s like sitting in an oven.
The insulation was so poor between the units that my elderly neighbors keeping their heat cranked up all winter which in turn kept my apartment from ever dropping below 70f.
Again because heat rises they don t have to pay as much in the summer to cool their apartments.
With ac you will be fine.
Insulate and vent the attic.
The topmost floor of an apartment is the service floor which contains the overhead tank pressure pumps lift machine electric panels cctv camera recorders access monitors fire safety.
I know there is no escape from heat in chennai.
I am looking for effective ways to reduce the heat that radiated from terrace.
I would like to add that even thought the house has ac it does not really help.
As i recall we had this huge heat and glare problem in an office i once worked in in malaysia tropical.
Also lower ceilings and the carpeting and pads installed on the floors above will help keep the heating contained in the winter.
If you are staying on the top floor of a building then you will certainly feel the effects of it.
I live in a place which is very very hot and humid and ac is quite ineffective during the daytime where the summer temperatures can go up to 51 degrees and ac with more power is useless i have read a lot about sun reflective paint false ceilings etc etc can you.
Also insulate 4a any portion of the floor in a room that is cantilevered beyond the exterior wall below.
We recently got wall insulation added.
Once the film was on the temperature was much improved.
You ll have to deal with neighbors living above you as well as any noise out on the street.
