FAN-tastic
It has been quite warm here in the Pacific Northwest this summer. Pretty much since school got out it has been at least 80 degrees every day. This is nothing to those who endure temperatures over 100 in places like Texas, Arizona, and parts of California.
The really awesome thing about our warm days, is that it cools down dramatically at night. Every night. You can be sweating your face off during the day but I guarantee it will be cool by 7 or 8pm and perhaps chilly by 9 or 10.
UNLESS you are in my bedroom, in which case it is tolerable until 4pm and then becomes stifling hot by 6pm and sweat your butt off by 10pm.
No kidding the house is warm, but bearable until you walk down the hall and cross the threshold of our bedroom, then a brick wall of cookie baking heat slams you in the face.
It is like an oven.
Outside the oven, not bad, inside the oven, death.
We have a ceiling fan which is awesome and the only thing that has kept us in the room this summer. If we didn't have the fan pressing cool air down on us we would have evacuated the master bedroom and opted for the guest room.
We also have a box fan. Nothing fancy. Just a box blowing cool-er air on us. It cost $20 at the PX. It sounds like a small jet is taking off and when it gets knocked over by the cat in the middle of the night it makes a noise that is so scary it will wake the dead.
When Matt brought the fan home I noted two important things. First it was pretty skinny and second our window sills are pretty fat. Skinny fan + Fat window sill = window fan. Right?
Nope. You might assume that is a good idea, I sure did, but you would be wrong.
My darling husband didn't want the fan in the window because it would be blowing pollen and other outside dirtiness into our faces.
So, we have put that fan in 10 different places in the room. We have tried opening the garage a few inches at night (which is right below our room) to let the hot air escape, we have opened windows in the day, closed them in the day, closed our double think curtains to block the sun, opened the bathroom window, closed the bathroom windows and all sorts of other combinations. We have also tried turning the box fan around so that it will suck the hot air from our room into the hall, relieving our room of the horrid stuffy hotness.
Nothing worked.
Until yesterday. I turned that fan into something amazing.
I threw caution to the wind and, against my husband's desire, put that darn fan in the window when the sun when down and turned it on full blast.
I can only say this....life changing.
Yep. That is right. Because the only logical place to put a fan is where it can pull COOLER air into a place that needs it.
And I feel like a fool for sweating in my bed for the past month because the fan was on the floor instead of in the window.
The really awesome thing about our warm days, is that it cools down dramatically at night. Every night. You can be sweating your face off during the day but I guarantee it will be cool by 7 or 8pm and perhaps chilly by 9 or 10.
UNLESS you are in my bedroom, in which case it is tolerable until 4pm and then becomes stifling hot by 6pm and sweat your butt off by 10pm.
No kidding the house is warm, but bearable until you walk down the hall and cross the threshold of our bedroom, then a brick wall of cookie baking heat slams you in the face.
It is like an oven.
Outside the oven, not bad, inside the oven, death.
We have a ceiling fan which is awesome and the only thing that has kept us in the room this summer. If we didn't have the fan pressing cool air down on us we would have evacuated the master bedroom and opted for the guest room.
We also have a box fan. Nothing fancy. Just a box blowing cool-er air on us. It cost $20 at the PX. It sounds like a small jet is taking off and when it gets knocked over by the cat in the middle of the night it makes a noise that is so scary it will wake the dead.
When Matt brought the fan home I noted two important things. First it was pretty skinny and second our window sills are pretty fat. Skinny fan + Fat window sill = window fan. Right?
Nope. You might assume that is a good idea, I sure did, but you would be wrong.
My darling husband didn't want the fan in the window because it would be blowing pollen and other outside dirtiness into our faces.
So, we have put that fan in 10 different places in the room. We have tried opening the garage a few inches at night (which is right below our room) to let the hot air escape, we have opened windows in the day, closed them in the day, closed our double think curtains to block the sun, opened the bathroom window, closed the bathroom windows and all sorts of other combinations. We have also tried turning the box fan around so that it will suck the hot air from our room into the hall, relieving our room of the horrid stuffy hotness.
Nothing worked.
Until yesterday. I turned that fan into something amazing.
I threw caution to the wind and, against my husband's desire, put that darn fan in the window when the sun when down and turned it on full blast.
I can only say this....life changing.
Yep. That is right. Because the only logical place to put a fan is where it can pull COOLER air into a place that needs it.
And I feel like a fool for sweating in my bed for the past month because the fan was on the floor instead of in the window.
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