Attic Opening Fan

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Attic opening fan. Use a wood handsaw to enlarge the opening if necessary before putting the fan in. Cooler outdoor air enters through open windows lowering the indoor temperature. This prevents hot air from seeping into your home and driving up the temperature in the living space which reduces the load on your air conditioner. These fans circulate the air within the attic pulling fresh.

During the day any cooler air brought in by the fan will be heated up immediately by the surrounding structure. Your attic fan may not be turning on because of an electrical problem like a tripped circuit breaker a blown fuse or a bad connection. Intake vents located at the lowest part of the roof under the eaves allow cool. Even though an attic exhaust fan can incrementally lower the temperature of a very hot attic using a fan does not stop the source radiant heat.

Most fans cannot keep up. Step 5 tape strips of plastic tarp using duct tape to the sides top and bottom of the fan to cover the seam between it and the attic wall. Our stylish powder coated steel 30 watt fan will effectively ventilate up to 2500 sq. Trying to solve the heat gain problem in your attic by using a fan is like lying out at the beach with a fan blowing over you and thinking you re not going to get a sunburn.

Powered attic ventilators or attic fans just as they sound are designed explicitly for placing or installing in the attics. If the attic fan isn t turning on it could be an electrical issue a problem with the thermostat or the motor of the fan that s not working. Open your windows before you turn on the fan. Place the box fan open side facing away from you into the opening where the attic grille was.

In the late evening or early morning the fan is turned on to exhaust hot air from the house. Attic fans serve a different function removing the hot and moist air from the attic and leaving the space below the attic floor alone. A whole house fan is usually installed on the attic floor near the center of your house. Using a fan to blow hot air out of the attic doesn t address the radiant heat flow from the roof to the attic floor.

Attic ventilation fans help cool air your attic by pushing out the stifling hot air from inside the attic and bringing in cool air from outside. Of attic space at up to 1550 cfm. Much of that heat then conducts downward and finds its way into the house.