In the hot months of the year, it is important to be able to count on some tools that can best cool the rooms of the house. In this article, we show you a simple and economical solution to better cool your home without air conditioning.
Summer is in full swing, despite lower average temperatures than last year. In some areas of Italy, however, temperatures exceeded 30°, especially during the day. There are many, therefore, who have run for cover, installing air conditioning systems or equipping the rooms of the house with cheaper tools, such as fans.
Not everyone, in fact, can count on air conditioners at home, due to various practical or economic reasons. On the hottest days of the year, therefore, the risk of suffering enormously from the heat is quite high. To have an adequate night’s rest and to be able to cool the home environment in the best possible way, therefore, many put in place real strategies against the heat.
The goal will be to always have an environment with suitable temperatures, trying to reduce the economic outlay at the end of the month as much as possible. Air conditioners will be, as normal, much more effective than fans and any other method. However, they will also be much more expensive. Bills, therefore, could skyrocket in the hottest months of the year.
If you want to avoid turning on the air conditioning, however, there are some truly incredible tricks to get good results in terms of cooling the room. Let’s find out how the fan could be very effective if used in a certain way. Here are all the details on this specific topic.
With a negligible expense you can refresh the home environment effectively without air conditioning
Air conditioning will be very effective, but it will cost an average of 7 times more than a fan. Those who want to fight the heat with cheaper methods, therefore, will always be looking for the best strategies to make the best use of the various fans in the house.
The first thing we have to say is that the fan is highly performing if used in certain ways, while it will lose effectiveness if the wrong strategies are put in place. In fact, it will not cool the environment, but will ensure air circulation. It becomes, therefore, useless to turn it on in a room where you will not actually be present.
At night, therefore, it must not be turned on beforehand, but must be used – remotely and correctly – during rest. It becomes just an unnecessary expense, therefore, to turn on the fan before bedtime.
We said, then, that the fan will give strong relief on hot days. However, it will become useless with temperatures above 32-33°. In this case, in fact, the air displaced will only be hot and muggy and, indeed, an even worse effect will be obtained.
How to solve it on the hottest days? There is a simple, practical and economical method to make the best use of the fan even with very high temperatures. With 0.50 cents you will have a refrigerated environment. Here’s what you need to know about it.
The incredible trick
If you think that the fan can be completely useless on days of intense heat, those – to be clear – with temperatures above 35 °, you are very wrong. It will not only be the people who own air conditioners who will be able to count on always fresh domestic environments. In this article we show you the perfect, simple and economical solution to make the best use of the fan. Here are the details.
The trick in question involves the use of some ice cubes. Just this word, we are sure, will have cooled you mentally. You can connect your fan with a pipe and apply a cut-out plastic bottle to the spill. The tube with the wide opening of the bottle can be tied to the fan with plastic rubber bands.
The other end of the tube will have to end its journey inside a tray in which you will place ice cubes. You will have to, as normal, create holes to make the pipes fit together in the ice tray as well as possible.
By turning on the fan, you will notice how the action of the ice combined with the rotating blades will ensure that the home environment will quickly lower its internal temperature. A truly incredible solution.
You will have made a homemade fan, which will have turned into a very high-performance DIY air conditioner. The only impractical thing is that you will have to replace the ice cubes inside the container often. For the rest, the solution will be highly performing. Seeing is believing.
