Then turn the fan around and blow it facing outside to suck out the hot air out of the house. When we were kids we didn’t have A/Cs. All we had were fans. My mother had a huge window fan that she ran all night and it did a good job of sucking out the hot air out of our house. It still wasn’t air cond., but we survived.
I remember when I was real little my Grandpa turning a tabletop fan on me and telling me how it felt just like a lake breeze. I guess when you’re raised without any fans, like my Grandpa was, a fan was a big improvement.
I grew up with out a/c too...
I’m still sucking air :)
I think this is more a setup for a/c stamps.. kind of like food stamps but you pay for your a/c unit and electricity with the stamps.
While cool air on sweat may feel refreshing, excess sweating can still lead to dehydration and other dangers such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
If only science could come up with a way to rehydrate people who have lost water through sweating. Maybe a ten million dollar research grant will get them to discover the secret of drinking water.
Growing up we had a huge fan in the attic (my dad built the house). It was at the end of the hallway where the bedrooms were. There was a switch on the wall and a louvered panel in the ceiling would open up and the fan would turn on - drawing the air up into the ceiling. I’m guessing it was about 3’ x 5’ in size.
During the day it would help bring the cool air up from downstairs, and at night exhaust the hot air with the windows open.
We don’t have a/c (Seattle) but when it gets hot I’ll put the vornado at the bottom of the stairs shooting the cool air up into the living area. And at night usually just use fans to create a cross breeze with the windows open.
Maybe I need to put a box fan at the attic door as an exhaust during the day?
I was just talking about the old days with my 94 year old mom. She reminded me that all they had were iceboxes and that was for the food (and milk) - so they never had any nice cold drinks with ice cubes or anything. Although she said when the ice man came around the kids would crowd around, and he always seemed to miss-judge the size of the ice block so he had to chip away lots more pieces for the kids to suck on!
That’s just like my grand parents house.Huge fan at the end
of the hallway.That sucker would make the curtains stand out.
I still use a seventy y/o fan that swings back forth..
The A/C has to be one of the great inventions of history tho
When I was a teen, we had a reversible fan in my second floor, bedroom window. One evening after a very hot summer's day which had left my room temp in the nineties, I turned the fan on. My father insisted on having the fan set to sucking the air out of the house emphatically stating that it would cool off the room. I told him blowing cool air from outside would cool my room down faster. He was adamant that my idea was wrong and his idea (suck the hot air out) was a better idea.
After one hour of sucking hot house air out the window, my room was still roasting hot. Meanwhile, as the night wore on the outside temp dropped into the high sixties. I reversed the setting on the fan to have it suck the cool night air into my room. It dropped the temp about twenty degrees in a few minutes, and I stopped sweating like I was in a sauna. My dad said nothing.