Home upgrades come in all shapes and sizes. From the plumbing in your kitchen and your choice of living room wallpaper to bedroom door handles and hallway carpeting, your home never stops needing your attention. One home upgrade feature that many people research in the summer months is how to increase airflow.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the more popular ways you could increase airflow in your home.
Plantation Shutters
One of the most eye catching ways to open up your home is to choose plantation shutters (find out more information on how to install window shutters by clicking the link). Plantation shutters increase airflow by allowing you to open your windows without fear of intruders. The wooden slats act as a physical barrier while the gaps mean plenty of air can get in.
Plantation shutters also mean that you can do away with curtains. In hot homes, curtains can keep the heat in at night, meaning they are kept open. Swapping your pointless curtains for shutters is the smart move for anyone looking for to cool their home at night.
Electric Ceiling Fans
Many people believe that a ceiling fan’s purpose is to suck the hot air out of the room. What they don’t realise is that there is no vent through which the hot air passes. Other people believe that ceiling fans blow air downwards, probably because they equate a desk fan with its ceiling-mounted namesake.
Both assumptions are incorrect. While extractor fans and desk fans exist, a ceiling fan is different. The purpose of a ceiling fan is to circulate air. That’s all. By moving the air around the room, ‘still air’ becomes ‘moving air’, otherwise known as a breeze.
Ceiling fans come with different power modes. Turning up your ceiling fan may not help too much unless you introduce some cooler air by opening a window. If you have tried this before with little success, there may be an issue with your windows. Or rather, the size and placement of your windows. We’ll cover the topic next.
The Science of Windows
Have you ever opened a window and noticed there wasn’t much difference in airflow? You may have followed up with the bright idea to open another window to create a breeze. However, that too may not have resulted in a draft.
The reason behind your lack of airflow may lie in the science of windows, and the solution could be costly. To create a noticeable breeze, the two windows that you open should be roughly opposite one another and should be approximately the same size.
Where one window is significantly larger than the other, the air trying to come in through the large window cannot push out the same amount of air through the opposite smaller window. The result is that not much air moves in or out of the room.
The solution is to remodel your home to ensure that windows are the same size. That means balanced air pressure, creating a breeze.
