If you can't stand the heat, get out of the office.

I'm blogging from the back porch on our Sony VAIO laptop because it's just too damned hot up in our office.
The office, as you may recall, is what folks around here call a bonus room above the garage.
The room was unfinished when we bought the house last year. The previous owner used the space for storage and had it piled high with boxes that had never been unpacked when he and his family moved in two years earlier. Sorta like the wall of boxes downstairs in the garage that we've been working on for months.
Even though there are a couple of heating/cooling vents up there, our inspector opined that they wouldn't work properly because there was no cold air return. So, as part of our purchase offer, we required the seller to have a cold air return installed. That was no big deal, because the furnace/heat pump is on the other side of the wall in the attic.
Even so, the room remained disturbingly cool during the winter months.
Now that warmer weather is upon us, the afternoons have become increasingly uncomfortable up there. Even when I climb the stairs late at night, I'm greeted by stifling heat when I reach the top.
While the cold air return probably helps, I think the real problem is that it never occurred to anyone to insulate the roof above the bonus room.
Considering that we've already thrown a considerable amount of money into woodwork, paint and carpeting, there's really no choice but to call a home insulation outfit and have them see what can be done about getting insulation up there.
We've only seen temperatures in the mid-80s here so far, but we know the summer will bring some triple-digit heat. Nothing like what Steve and his family are seeing in Las Vegas, but hot enough to fry our computers and make the office unusable.