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To ask if you have a fan on right now?

132 replies

ippyielleo · 29/06/2025 22:26

Do you always have the fan on, or the window open at night? We can’t really open our bedroom window so that’s not a choice and the fan is so noisy!

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JBJ · 29/06/2025 23:46

Window open wide (with an insect screen!) and ceiling fans in every room. Still boiling though. I sleep with a fan all year round though as I like the white noise.

huuskymam · 29/06/2025 23:43

I'm sitting here using a hand fan cause my grand daughter pushed over my tower fan and now it's making a clunking noise 😭😭. It was a super quiet one that got a lot of use all year round due to the menopause.

tinyspiny · 29/06/2025 23:39

2 fans ( a woozoo and a JL quiet one) and the window open with fly screens down so no bugs .

unsync · 29/06/2025 23:39

Windows open, curtains closed though, fan on low (it is silent), duvet off, jimjams on.

TheLostStargazer · 29/06/2025 23:37

It’s actually cooler outside right now than inside so opening the windows helps a lot. If the fan is by the window, it cools the room down.

Gunz · 29/06/2025 23:36

I have a fan in my bedroom running all night - it does have sleep mode but tbh the fan is quiet enough to sleep. When I have looked at the running costs of the fan - not bothered given what I pay for gas in the winter. Tbh if we get two weeks of this weather - we will be lucky.

Lardychops · 29/06/2025 23:36

We have a fan on set at highest level 365 a year.
I like a cold bedroom , hate sleeping in silence as any little noise (including DH breathing) irritates me and so I guess it’s like ‘white noise’.
Additionally with three adult kids still lingering at home ( the bastards) - with girlfriends sometimes sleeping over- still living in the house all full time working , doing overtime, coming in late/going out etc the fan drowns out the normal hub/ hub of a busy home.

TomatoSandwiches · 29/06/2025 23:36

LillyLeaf · 29/06/2025 23:28

This might sound totally pathetic but aren't you all worried about intruders with all these windows open (fyi I'm very paranoid about burglary and listen to way too much true crime), I can't sleep with windows open.

The sight of my bare arse when they come climbing through should scare them off, no problem.

BarBellBarbie · 29/06/2025 23:35

LillyLeaf · 29/06/2025 23:28

This might sound totally pathetic but aren't you all worried about intruders with all these windows open (fyi I'm very paranoid about burglary and listen to way too much true crime), I can't sleep with windows open.

Two story house, windows open on the secund floor, never worry at all about break ins. Inner city area, have lived here 20 plus years, never had a problem. I think worry is often a personality thing not actually related to risk at all

Tryingmum456 · 29/06/2025 23:35

Im so hot I decided to sleep on the sofa. I have my balcony door open and fan right in front of me. I intend to keep it on all night.

ObliviousCoalmine · 29/06/2025 23:32

Always fan on.

Kimwestonhelpless · 29/06/2025 23:30

Fan on . window shut because of the 4am seagull screeching squadron.🤯

CoastalCalm · 29/06/2025 23:28

I just bought a shark fan - it’s very quiet

LillyLeaf · 29/06/2025 23:28

This might sound totally pathetic but aren't you all worried about intruders with all these windows open (fyi I'm very paranoid about burglary and listen to way too much true crime), I can't sleep with windows open.

BookWormBetsie · 29/06/2025 23:27

Windows closed in all bedrooms and we have aircon units so perfect nights sleep, I moaned hugely to dh when he forked out the money for them last year but now I admit it was money well spent

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 29/06/2025 23:23

Wanderdust · 29/06/2025 23:20

Baffled why you would open the window with fan on, defeats the purpose surely?! Got a Dyson fan and the sound helps me sleep, it's like white noise!

Why wouldn't you? The fan directs the cooler air into the room.

PinkyBear · 29/06/2025 23:22

Window closed, fan on. It’s super quiet, and very effective!

JustFeedMeCake · 29/06/2025 23:21

Windows closed due to insects but the fan is on. It’s very powerful but incredibly quiet. I love it 🥰

Wanderdust · 29/06/2025 23:20

Baffled why you would open the window with fan on, defeats the purpose surely?! Got a Dyson fan and the sound helps me sleep, it's like white noise!

TheLostStargazer · 29/06/2025 23:18

Cool shower, window open, fan on. I sleep well after that.

mrsfollowill · 29/06/2025 23:12

@FishChipsAndVinegarPlease sorry link was too messy but search DKINY cooling towels on Amazon. Another tip I got from here years ago was to soak a big tshirt on cold water, wring it out and put it on dripping wet- got through the 40.1C here a couple of years ago sat in a wet t shirt on a towel- also flopped into bed wearing it once the dripping stopped No harm done to the bedding - all dry the next morning and I slept like a log.

Shenmen · 29/06/2025 23:11

Windows open. No fan but I love the heat even as a menopausal sweat bucket!

SisterMargaretta · 29/06/2025 23:05

Both window open and fan on at the moment but I will close the window when I go to sleep as live close to a motorway.

LF11 · 29/06/2025 23:03

FishChipsAndVinegarPlease · 29/06/2025 23:00

Link if you please :-)

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TheChosenTwo · 29/06/2025 23:02

No fan and lying under the duvet. Not cold, I’m just right. Windows are all open but the shutters are completely shut because the telly is on and otherwise bugs will swarm.
I hate the feeling of the fan but Dh will put it on when he comes up and angle it at himself making sure I don’t get blown!