We don’t exactly entertain out of town guests all the time.
Yet, I am also very happy to offer an HVAC comfortable room to family and friends.
I was sort of raised this way. My folks were always having people stay the night if they were passing through. It made growing up in that house a lot of fun because there were a lot of interesting people coming through. I lucked out because my wife was raised in the same fashion. But, it makes it tough to offer a guest room that is colder than the rest of the house by at least 10 or 15 degrees. Guests love that room in the summer. The winter is quite another story altogether. I searched and searched for the source of that cold. It wasn’t the window and I could not locate a draft no matter how hard I searched. It ended up being a guest who showed me the solution. He suggested I install a room to room ventilation system. It’s basically a little fan put inside an adjoining wall. The fan then pulls warmer air into the cold room. I took him up on the suggestion while he was there. He was much more of a handy man than I was. And, I really didn’t want to have to pay someone to do something that appeared to be so straight forward. We were able to start after lunch, finish a few hours later and were in time for happy hour. I could not believe the difference it made. Not only was the cold guest room now the same temperature, it felt like the HVAC temp was more balanced in that entire section of our home.