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What are good ways to increase air flow in a home with few windows and oriented unfavorably to the local wind direction (cheaply)? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Gabu@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been racking my brain lately thinking of what are good methods to increase internal airflow in a house with few windows, all facing the wrong direction to catch wind. What are your ideas?

Edit: Breaking a wall to make more windows isn't an option.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oscillating fans help.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're good for circulating air that has already entered a space, but not so good at getting the air there to begin with.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

True. But I tried the fan-in-the-window technique and I think that if your window is so large that there's a huge gap, it's not terribly effective.

I did have good luck one year putting a popcorn bowl of ice water in front of a fan pointed right at me on my desk. It doesn't cool the room, but it cooled me.