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@@SharkFishSF indeed

Agree 100 percent. My older home had fan installed. Made a Hugh difference in how comfortable we were.

Cause everything is about cosmetics.. no one wants a fan in the ceiling .. but i agree they work great

I believe it was the old fan noise as they were very loud and the vents to open at the ceiling weren't very effective in the winter.

Totally agree

Yeah. My grandparents had one, but no house we have owned or rented ever had one. Live in the Midwest and wonder if the humidity is the reason. TBH some nights it just does not cool off.

@@timothywertin7423 Midwesterner here. We had them growing up too (called them "attic fans"), all post-WWII tract houses.. but then those houses were all built before central AC was a thing. I agree, especially in the 2000's ... it hardly cools off enough at night to use one for most of the year.

I'm curious how well this prevents cold air from coming into the house during the winter. Have you had it long enough to know?

​@@aaronhynes4907

When I was a kid we had a window unit in the living room and when it got hot we all slept in the living room.

smart lady

@Francis Martin Galario "Chili* 🌶️ peppers"

How do you dehumidify your entire home? I bought an expensive dehumidifier and it would work only in a single room and the humidity would go back up within 10 minutes of switching off the dehumidifier.

@@papabear8253 Most people do it through a whole house AC system. The nice thing about that is, humidity tends to go up at night while temperature goes down, so I crank down the AC at night time, but put it back up again during the day to compensate and balance between the humidity and heat factors. There are also passive, no electricity dehumidifiers (chemicals like calcium chloride, which are NOT really all that "dangerous" as some stupid sites claim) that can be put around the home, and if you're good at designing/building things, you can make a nice, efficient solar oven outside that can "regenerate" these (by driving off/evaporating the water), and then rinse and repeat as needed. Point is, there are different ways. No way works perfectly if you live in a consistently high humidity environment though. You'll never get 10% or even 30% RH inside if it's constantly between 70 to 100% RH outside. But, if you can knock it down to around 40 to 60% RH or so, it makes things much more tolerable. I just had my AC worked on. The HVAC guy gave me an interesting tip that I had never heard before. He said don't run regular fans in the house when trying to cool things down. The reason why he said, is because it changes the air pressure in the house and AC units are designed with a certain amount of air and pressure in mind. Basically when you run a bunch of fans, you change the pressure differential and create more of a vacuum that sucks in humidity from outside. Don't know for certain if that is completely objectively accurate or not. He said he was initially skeptical of it himself, but tested it and found it was true. Though t I would at least pass it on for consideration.

Or humidification if your area is dry. This is all dependant on what kind of home you have. A newer home has less airflow in it, which relies on the HVAC system to do the work. So a dehumidifier or humidifier would work better in it. The older style homes? There's not much you can do to lower humidity.

💯percent correct!

Even in the south in mid summer. You come home to a hot house. Run the fan and open doors 20 minutes. Close up and A/c has a much easier time. And the border times of early summer and fall, you can enjoy the cool nite air without high bills.

Update?!

It would be nice with a delay timer which turns on the fan at a set time so you don't have to wake up early to do it.

Cool beard btw

I'm in the south east and the my attic is super dry though like 20 percent humidity. Wonder if that would balance it out? Also would going to crawl space then to the attic make more sense?

It must be nice to live in less mosquitoes place.

@@elpasemah in the US, most people have screens on their windows.

Haha serisouly

It can they both run off 120v.lol just need to get a fan with bigger CFM

And in the bathroom

Some hood fans require a make up air to bring in fresh air when it's running

@@adfadgaqgv correct I believe if it's over 100 or 150 cfm

Those dampers don't have any R values. They help but not the best

Nobody in the HVACR industry thinks these are great. You must be a noob.

@@phillmccracken4219 well then go hang out in your attic this summer for a day instead of in your mom’s basement boy.

These are for when the outside air drops below your desired interior set point

@@WisdomInTheWoods That is your reply? Oregon, lol not surprised. I will stick with my facts you can stick with your childish replies.

Looked more like rat droppings! Yikes!

I cringed. That attic was a damn disaster.

I thought i was the only one who seen that…

He just added a grinder (fan) up in there now, he dont need traps now

@@yourtube4423 🤣

These Quiet Cools are a bit different from your normal house fans as they are much smaller than your typical house fans. So they make much less noise.

Thanks a lot Michael!

Buy some cheap furnace air filters and cut them to fit in your window openings.

The answer is use an input fan with a filter but you'll be changing that filter a ton. Ac might end up being cheaper and healthier for your lungs

100+degrees and 100% humidity?! I can’t even grasp what that must feel like..

@@anthonyfletcher8053 In country north of Saigon you can lay still and sweat profusely doing nothing. 30 mils north in the rubber plantations it was like a regular hot, humid day at home in NJ.

Thank you!

There is a really noticeable difference. I'm not the creator of the video but I can answer your question after noticing it's been 8 months without an answer. The one I have tested at home is smaller, DIY, repurposed, when I need it I just close all the windows and doors to allow only one air input and one output just like on this video, then the air starts flowing and it takes about 10 minutes in general to show the difference, and this takes WAY LESS time for the setup I have on the main bedroom, in that case the sensation of cooling becomes instantaneous sucking fresh air from the balcony and pushing it out via the bedroom bathroom. Is it guaranteed? yes and no. If somehow the air is hotter outside, then you are sucking hot air into the house, if it's fresher outside, then yes it works. Yes, that sort of thing can happen, under those circumstances: keep the house closed to avoid the hotter air coming in. If you are interested on a report with measurements (celsius/farenheit), I don't have it as I don't currently own a digital IR or ambient termometer, but it's something that I will buy eventually. You can use this approach at whole house level (needing a more powerful fan), or you can do the same at single room basis. Initially I read tons of articles regarding out-fan vs in-fan with diverse reports on what's better, you can find lots of information on the web, but honestly the best approach is having them both, one helping to suck fresh air in, and one helping to push the hot air out elsewhere. The one who explained this to me in simple terms is an African engineer from Ghana, specialized in cooling systems and AC. Want a tip? the air in fan should be as close the ground/floor as possible, and the air out fan should be at the highest place of the room/house. Why? thermodynamics, the hot air always goes up, you will always find cooler air close to the floor (except if the floor is hot).

How do you best use the fans to pull the air from the basement? Did you install a duct with a fan in it?

@@Eric3Frog Yes. I used duct work into some heating registers that were not being used in the winter and connected a fan with speed control. The 'TerraBloom ECMF-200, Quiet 8" Inline Duct Fan with 0-100% Variable Speed Controller'. It works amazingly well!

Yep. here in the northeast it would be completely retarded stuff: the summers are very humid and hot as hell and the rest of the year is cold or freezing.

Feels more like an emergency venting system that youd use if youd burn something in the kitchen or someone with covid coughed inside.

@@freedom_aint_free i fyou think the Northeast is very humid and hot, don't come down south. You'll probably die.

@@MrRich6505 Thank you for the advice, I absolutely hate humidity ! I like dry weather... In America other than deserts I don't see to many options, I'm thinking about buying land and starting a homestead, what would you say about Texas (it's a huge state the weather has to vary a lot I hope) ?

Most likely yes

I think it also depends on where you live and the temp/humidity. At my parents house in San Jose, it worked great in the morning or late at night to cool the attic and house down. They don't have AC. In San Diego, I tried it using a box fan on the attic access hole, it cooled the house down but it also brought in the humidity. Then the AC needs to remove the humidity. It's hard to analyze the electricity use of AC and whole house fan vs AC only because there are so many factors (humidity, outside temp, etc). With the cost of the whole house fan and the work to install it, I decided to just to use AC since I wasn't sure if it would ever hit the break even point. I think whole house fans work great when there are high temperatures swings and your area has relatively low humidity.