Towing tongue temperature check
There might be some level of heat
sinking going on with our trailer towing tongue.
The far end is a little bit
colder than 2 feet over.
The outside temperature was
24 degrees while it was 54 inside.
I'm curiouis now if the
temperature difference would be the same this Summer?
Maybe expelling heat in the Summer will balance the loss of heat during
the Winter?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Mark,
I'm a bit dubious that the tongue will help you out in the summer unless your interior temperature is higher then the exterior temperature.
If that tongue is sitting in the sun during the day it will be absorbing heat and transferring part of it into the rest of your house.
Perhaps if you sand it down and paint it white you can avoid having it be too much of an issue when things heat up.
Well, if there is a temperature difference along a conductive material like steel, there is definitely heat flow.
And since heat always flows from high to low temperature, you probably won't get a break in summer.
To be fair though, this is probably not the the place of biggest heat loss. That will most probably be the windows, or general leakage. (You'd have to look at your house with a thermal camera or thermal phone attachment to identify where the largest heat losses occur.)