Excess heat in bunk above outdoor kitchen..

The back of the fridge is going to be where most of the heat is produced. Maybe, putting in a screened vent from that area is all that's needed.

I second the idea of solid foam under the mattress. I sure wouldn't use Reflectix under a mattress.

Yeah, ill need to explore a Little.. But i need to do something for sure. Even a vent with a pc fan.

harley4275 wrote:
My out kitchen has 2 vents behind the fridge to vent the heat from the fridge to the inside of the trailer when the door is closed. Will stop most heat from heating up bunk.

I am thinking of adding vents to inside wall on my outside kitchen. It gets so warm in the sealed compartment that it makes the fridge work harder.

My out kitchen has 2 vents behind the fridge to vent the heat from the fridge to the inside of the trailer when the door is closed. Will stop most heat from heating up bunk.

most frigs in the outdoor kitchen are electric, My daughter and son in law have an outdoor kitchen and he leaves his open most of the time while we are around it. At night he closes it(the door) but his is bigger than the one pictured and he has more kitchen area than that so he has some breathing room above his frig.
I like the idea of checking for that air space between kitchen and bunk and adding some heavy foam silver lined insulation.
randy

DiskDoctr wrote:
Additional ideas...

1. Add computer fans to pull air out of fridge space. This is done often and improves the cooling of the fridge, considered an efficiency improvement.

2. Ifmyou need serious heat/sound insulation, check out the sound deadening mats used to line vehicles, including the heatshield stuff used to cover the "lid" (can't think of right name) inside a van that covers the motor.

That stuff is designed to handle serious heat and is sound deadening. Much of it is adhesive, too. It's expensive and probably overkill, IMHO, but available.

People have made baffles, diverters, heat shields, etc to redirect airflow through fridge vents and out the vents.

Does your outside compartment door have vents? Got a pic?

Here is a stock photo. No vents..

DiskDoctr wrote:
2. Ifmyou need serious heat/sound insulation, check out the sound deadening mats used to line vehicles, including the heatshield stuff used to cover the "lid" (can't think of right name) inside a van that covers the motor.

Dyna-mat

Additional ideas...

1. Add computer fans to pull air out of fridge space. This is done often and improves the cooling of the fridge, considered an efficiency improvement.

2. Ifmyou need serious heat/sound insulation, check out the sound deadening mats used to line vehicles, including the heatshield stuff used to cover the "lid" (can't think of right name) inside a van that covers the motor.

That stuff is designed to handle serious heat and is sound deadening. Much of it is adhesive, too. It's expensive and probably overkill, IMHO, but available.

People have made baffles, diverters, heat shields, etc to redirect airflow through fridge vents and out the vents.

Does your outside compartment door have vents? Got a pic?

Great info guys, Thank you..

We're going to pickup some refletix and see if it doesnt resolve..

Francesca Knowles wrote:
It's the fridge, which makes heat to "cool", however bizarre that fact always seems to me. Heat rises, and that's the point. Fix is shielding as suggested OR turning it off when sleeping- which last might be the simplest thing to do, since you probably only need the bunk at night.

Things in the fridge will keep just fine for eight hours or so without the fridge actually powered up.

Granted that an ammonia fridge is different, but all "cooling" appliances create heat in some way, and the process of cooling is really a matter of heat transfer. The term "cold" is really the absence of heat - your home fridge and A/C units all create heat by way of the compressors and fan motors generating heat as a byproduct of performing work. The refrigerant creates "cold" by transferring heat from one space to another. This is also how a heat pump can heat a home (within limits) - by removing latent heat from the outdoors and transferring it indoors.