Yeah, contractors aren’t so hard to get. The floor folks I was dealing with are generally pretty available- all they do is hardwood flooring, so they have several crews. They were the ones who did the refurbishing of our floor a few ears ago and I was pleased with their work.

As far as putting in an exhaust fan: most of the time, I just set up a floor fan near the door to push air from the rest of the house through the room. It usually works pretty well, but obviously can’t deal with the really hot days that approach or exceed 30 degrees. A/C is the only way to “fix” that, and if I’m going to start punching holes in walls then I’ll be looking at AC.

I should at least make the effort to get an estimate on A/C for that room. I’ve hesitated thus far partly because I wasn’t sure how I wanted the room laid out (I am now), because I thought we’d go with central air one day, and because I thought even single-room “built in” cooling would be too expensive. Maybe, though, it wouldn’t be too bad.