An air conditioner can only process so much at one time. If you have an extremely hot day, too many people in your home, or the need to do a lot of baking, your air conditioner might not be enough to keep your home cool. If you have ever experienced a time when your home stayed hot for several hours even after the outside temperatures fell, then you have seen the need to backup your AC system with a secondary cooling system. A house fan can help you to reduce the demand on your AC unit, and thus reduce your cooling costs.
How a House Fan Works
Hot air can be trapped in your home, and your AC unit has to cycle through all of the air to cool your home back down. A house fan works on a different principle. Workers will install a house fan in the highest part of your ceiling near the center of your home. With this positioning, your house fan is ideally placed to vent heat out of your home. A house fan works by pulling air into your home from outside in order to cool you home back down. During the hottest parts of the day your house fan will not be that effective, so you need a strategy for using it properly.
For the Best Results
Because a house fan will struggle to cool your fan during the hottest parts of the day, you will want to use your AC system to cool your home as long as the outside temperature is cooler than the air in your home. Once outside, and temperatures start to fall, you can open your windows and turn on your house fan. It will vent the heat out of your home through your attic even as it pulls cooler air into your home. A house fan uses much less energy than an AC system; so using your house fan to cool your home through the night will help to reduce your cooling costs.
There is no such thing as the one perfect way to keep your home cool through the night. Instead, you should have a strategy in place to use more than one technology to keep your home cool. If you have been in the habit of trusting only your AC unit to keep your home cool, it might be time to modify your strategy and see what more you can do to keep your home cool and reduce your cooling costs. Talk to your local heating and air conditioning experts, such as Artie's Heating & Air Inc, for more information.
Share13 January 2015
My name is Debbie Greenberg. I’m a single woman who owns her home, and like most homeowners I dread home repairs. I’m not very handy with do-it-yourself projects around the house. I can do a few minor repairs when necessary, but for the most part I have to call in a professional. Last year I had a leak in my roof. When it rained, water would leak into my kitchen. What appeared to be a simple fix turned out to be anything but simple. It took over four months to finally identify the problem, and double the money I was initially quoted to fix it. The problem ended up being that the flat part of my roof didn't have shingles, but a sheeting material. I learned a bit about home roofs along the way, and that is what I want to share with you.
