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According to Luckydevil, it's okay to have one post telling about a product, so here goes:
When I moved to the Phoenix area from Austin seven years ago, I found that starting in about May, there was no way I could work (play) in my garage. It would be 100 outside and 115 in the garage. Swamp coolers work GREAT here, but I quickly learned that the HOA forbids having one on the outside of the house.
I tried one of the roll-around evap coolers, but found it only helped if I was right in front of it. It also just recirculated the same old stale air. 
One clause in the home owners' restrictions is that security doors are allowed as long as they are painted to match the house.
Out of desperation, I developed a system that mounts the evaporative media between a security door and the solid door on the side of the garage. It has a water supply to a sump and a couple of pumps to keep the whole thing working. Outside air is sucked in through the "security door" where it is cooled by as much as 30 degrees. A large fan mounted in the garage ceiling pulls in the fresh air and exhausts it into the attic.
It has the side benefit of significantly cooling the attic above the house. I can't prove it, but I think that the improved house AC efficiency of the cooler attic may actually pay for running the cool door.
Now, even on the hottest days, I can be in the garage doing my thing.
Since fresh air is always being circulated, it never gets stuffy and the humidity does not continue to build up. There is an increase in humidity. If it is 15 percent outside, I will see about 35-45 percent in the garage, still in the comfortable range.
This works so well that friends have encouraged me go into business. So now I have a patent pending and am selling what we now call "A Cool Door". Check out our web site, www.airzee.com, to learn more. Give me a call or email, and let's see what can be done for your hot garage.
According to Luckydevil, it's okay to have one post telling about a product, so here goes:
When I moved to the Phoenix area from Austin seven years ago, I found that starting in about May, there was no way I could work (play) in my garage. It would be 100 outside and 115 in the garage. Swamp coolers work GREAT here, but I quickly learned that the HOA forbids having one on the outside of the house.
I tried one of the roll-around evap coolers, but found it only helped if I was right in front of it. It also just recirculated the same old stale air. One clause in the home owners' restrictions is that security doors are allowed as long as they are painted to match the house.
Out of desperation, I developed a system that mounts the evaporative media between a security door and the solid door on the side of the garage. It has a water supply to a sump and a couple of pumps to keep the whole thing working. Outside air is sucked in through the "security door" where it is cooled by as much as 30 degrees. A large fan mounted in the garage ceiling pulls in the fresh air and exhausts it into the attic. It has the side benefit of significantly cooling the attic above the house. I can't prove it, but I think that the improved house AC efficiency of the cooler attic may actually pay for running the cool door.Now, even on the hottest days, I can be in the garage doing my thing.
Since fresh air is always being circulated, it never gets stuffy and the humidity does not continue to build up. There is an increase in humidity. If it is 15 percent outside, I will see about 35-45 percent in the garage, still in the comfortable range.This works so well that friends have encouraged me go into business. So now I have a patent pending and am selling what we now call "A Cool Door". Check out our web site, www.airzee.com, to learn more. Give me a call or email, and let's see what can be done for your hot garage.
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