Top Floor Apartment Heat
With ac you will be fine.
Top floor apartment heat. Let your apartment breathe naturally. The sun is pretty hot. Additionally top floor units usually also get more sunlight which is yet another source of free heat for you. This also means it will be hotter in the summer months so consider investing in good curtains fans and other ways to keep cool.
Basic science tells us that heat rises so living in a top floor apartment can help you keep heating costs low during cool months. Closing them can reduce the heat and your a c bill by up to 45 according to consumer reports. The top and bottom floors are both great options depending on what you re looking for in an apartment rental but when it comes to heating and cooling and worrying about the trek to and from the apartment each showcases opposing extremes. In the summer with windows on three sides i rarely need ac thanks to the wind up here.
Flats closer to ground level receive heat reflected during the day and heat released from aborbsion at night. That said during hotter months it may cost more to help your apartment cool. Also if the bulding is very tall 30 floors or more you actually could be cooler on the top floor due to less radiated heat from the ground warming the flat. My top floor place heat included is comfortably warm in the winter.
When you live on the top floor of your building nothing stands between you and the heat of the sun except your blinds.