Well one thing “good” about recent economic trends, is that people are willing to do small jobs again. Here, at any rate, for the last few years you just couldn’t do that. Any contractor would have a choice between doing a little room like yours or doing a full house, and very few would not choose to do the bigger project.

One of the reasons I suggested moving the computer equipment out was heat generation… though when it gets to be 35 nothing short of full AC is going to make much difference anywhere. Most of the time you and I were broiling it’s been much less than that outside… have you thought of putting an exhaust fan in the room to dump hot air outside or into the garage? Were are only talking of something like a washroom exhaust fan, and you can get those fairly quiet. In fact, you only need a hole in the wall for the duct and the fan motor can be in the garage.

Just getting the hot air out is over half the problem as usually the air outside or in the rest of the house is a good 5 – 10 degrees cooler