How it works
As summer in the Sacramento area begins to heat up the Whole House Fan Co. has the perfect way to help keep you cool in the sweltering summer heat. Whole house fans are an effective way to cool your home for a fraction of the energy cost of running your air conditioning.
A whole house fan is a quiet, energy-efficient and a pleasant way to keep your home cool and comfortable.
Whole house fans can provide effective natural cooling for a fraction of the energy cost of air conditioning by drawing cool fresh air in through open windows and purging hot stale air out through the roof vents. It create a fresh and comfortable living environment while it draws heat out of the structure to reduce the air conditioning load of the next day.
How a Whole House Fan Works
This diagram illustrates how the whole house fan helps to keep temperatures low by drawing in fresh cool air through an open window and purging the warm, stale air out through the attic vents of your roof. This process is what creates a cool and fresh living space.
As the outdoor temperature rises during the day, the heat is captured in the walls and interior spaces of your home, this makes cooling especially difficult and costly. When the temperature outside finally begins to cool, the heat trapped in your home during the day can often times make the house uncomfortably warm – especially in second stories! Air conditioning, of course, is the normal solution to this problem, but air conditioning during the hot summer months is expensive. Fearful that an open window will let all that expensive cool air out, this forces the heat to stay trapped in your attic while the beloved Delta breezes kicks in. The Whole House Fan Company provides you with a great and cost effective solution to your problem!
Due to it’s great cooling efficiency, the whole house fan brings the temperature of your home down to a level that greatly reduces the need for air conditioning. It uses just 1/10th of the energy of a typical home air conditioning unit.
Forget what you have heard about whole house fans in the past. Whole house fans used to be noisy and difficult to install, but recent improvements to the fans have allowed them to be much more efficient and quieter. They are ideal for any climate, especially in California, where cool nights and low humidity provide the perfect conditions for cooling down your home.
The Whole House Fan does 2 things:
1) It completely purges the whole house of the warm air inside and replaces it with the cool outside air.
2) In additions it purges all the hot air out of the attic and replaces it with cool outside air.
For example, in a 2,000 sq. ft. house, the fan will exchange the air in 4-5 minutes.
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