House fans are a great way to cool your home and lower energy bills because they require only a fraction of the energy required by a traditional air conditioning system. Whole house fan systems work by pulling hot air out of the house as the hot air rises and pulling in replacement cool air; to work properly, this system requires home windows to remain open, making this system ideal for summer weather or temperate regions.
The requirement of open windows may be a disadvantage to families and individuals with allergies, though window screens should filter out most large debris and insects and special filter screens can take care of dust and pollen. Placing a window fan such as the air king 9166 20 whole house window fan will further help to circulate cool air in and hot air out of the home and work to lower energy bills.
Customizing or remodeling your home to install a whole house fan may seem expensive initially, but the energy savings you receive will cause the system to pay for itself in a couple of years or less. Before you begin your project to install whole house fan system into your home, you need to research the different types or systems to determine the house fans best for your home. A whole house fan or whole house attic fan is easy to install yourself and does not require hiring professionals that will charge installation fees and raise the cost of installing the system.
Some older model house fan systems create a lot of noise pulling large amount of air out of the home through speeding fan blades powered by direct drive motors. These models of home cooling systems are loud enough to interfere with normal hearing activities like conversations and listening to music or the television. Newer designs use smaller fans and different motor power to pull hot air from the home more quietly.
Different system diagrams are available to create a quiet whole house fan system. Traditional models are ceiling mounted systems, which mount to the ceiling between living space and an attic. The ceiling mounted house fans pull hot air from the rooms and into the attic space where roof mounted fans then pull the hot air out of the house through the roof.
A newer diagram for whole house fan systems is the ducted system in which the hot air is pulled into a vent or whole house fan shutter and through the duct work in the home’s ceiling and delivered to a heat exhaust in the roof. The ducted system cuts down on the noise created by the fans and runs much more quietly than the ceiling mounted systems.
For both systems to work effectively, the whole house fan shutter holes in the roof should be the same as the shutters or vent holes in the ceiling of the living space. With adequate sized shutters, a master flow whole house fan is created for optimal cooling needs.
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