To want a fan for each room?

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Hubby thinks I'm mad. It's hot. I want to buy multiple fans - one for each bedroom and the living room. He says that'll make me crazy fan lady.

How many fans do you have in your house?

A lot.

Ceiling fans in the 3 bedrooms and living room plus a tower fan in the living room. Extra pedestal fan in my room, 2 extra pedestal fans in DS2's room, extra floor fan in DS1's room. Our house is baking though all along the side and front.

We have a fan in each of the bedrooms and air con downstairs. Bedroom windows are open at night and the white noise of the fans drown out any potential noise. Bedroom window closed in the day when I’m working nights and the fan is a Godsend.

YABU, you’re barking up the wrong tree there with a fan, just splash out on an air conditioner.
If it was a choice between the dishwasher and the aircon, I’d keep the aircon and get paper plates. 31 degrees in my kitchen right now, but 17 in the bedroom!

We've got window a/c units in each bedroom which we switch on before we go to bed to cool the rooms down, but we run 2-3 fans in the rest of the house downstairs as needed. It's all open plan and it would be expensive to keep it properly cool, so we just keep the windows open and keep the air moving around it.

It's very humid and hot here most of the summer but having 2-3 fans on the go downstairs when we need them keeps it bearable.

I work from home so when it's really hot I just keep the fan running in my office with the window open and I've never found it unbearable. (It's in the 30s pretty regularly.)

We have one in each bedroom and a massive one in the lounge . It's hot , he is weird !!

Air con? In the UK? How?

I have looked online and they don't seem to have units that don't need to feed something out of the window (I think, didn't understand). Is there a stand alone unit that I can buy and don't need to balance something out of an open window?

You have to feed a hose out of the window. But why not?

We have 3 but we have a small house. We have one in each of the bedrooms and one in the living room. Back door (in the kitchen diner) is open all day at the minute as are the living room windows and all the windows upstairs are open (day and night). It has cooled down considerably here but still have them on all the time.

I don't feed a hose out of the window. I have full, permanent extraction.

violets17 I'm in Spain and we all have aircon that doesn't involve anything needing to be fed out of the window or balanced on the sill. I'm no engineer so I have no idea how it works. Daikin is a popular brand, but there are others (I don't even remember what ours is). They cost from 400 to 800 € (around 600 is typical), plus installation, and then obviously the electricity to run it.

You also need to decide which rooms of the house you want to aircon.

I'm sure in the U.K. they install this style of aircon in shops, offices, etc. so it must be possible to get it for homes? Sorry not to be more specific / helpful.

Do fans cost a lot to run all night? I'm worried what our electricity bill will be like!

Can't you move the lounge one upstairs when you go to bed?

2 fans in the lounge, 1 fan in our bedroom, 2 fans in the kids' bedroom as that room gets boiling. Couple of the fans are on their last legs so we've replaced early so when they die we'll be down to one in each of the main rooms really.

By all means have fans, for the the bed room, we finally cracked and went for one of these

For years, I have wanted one but assumed that it would need a permanent vent in the wall (not unlike a washing machine/tumble dryer). Cracked a few weeks ago and could not be happier with the results. It comes with a range of connectors which work with different kinds of windows to ge5 rid of th3 hot air.

Bliss.

Fully expected the weather to crack as soon as it was up and running, its going strong and really, really helps. Our bedroom windows face west and the room is the warmest in the house. We keep the windows shaded and run the air con once the sun strikes about 2pm at the moment. Only run when there is not breeze blowing through the house, when it really helps.

Tower fan in living room and in bedroom, I used to have one and move it room to room but I really struggle physically now. On the very worst days I take my living room one into bedroom so one from the side and one from end of bed! No way I could have a window open at night, middle of a tourist town and it's pure hell with noise at night, several pubs and clubs opposite so 2am or so the glass goes crashing out to the bins, then from 4 onwards rubbish lorries start up.

Although this year my greatest purchase was a £15 USB fan, clips onto my laptop table or desk and plugs strait in, best thing ever for in the day.

I'm fully planning on getting an air con unit when I start working again - not having another summer like this with pratface next door who takes "outdoor living" literally - to the point he's moved his office desk and parrot out into the garden pretty much under my bedroom window and I have to listen to his racist ranting till midnight at night with the window open or boil.

An old flat I rented had ceiling fan light fittings - I really bloody miss that but couldn't install them here because of how the roofline comes down through the upstairs rooms on the house.

I do feel slightly smug that I bought the nice two-pack of pedestal fans before the weather hotted up - people are panic buying anything remotely fan-like working or not on the local FB groups now (so if anyone's got a craptacular knackered Argos £10 special from 50 years ago - now's the time to make yer money).

I'd so love to get air con. Where do you even start with getting quotes and advice for the best kind for your set-up? Any company recommendations?

I'm in a shared owenership flat so would have to get permission for anything outside or any holes in the walls, and I don't know how easily I could access the space about the ceiling, so it might be difficult to get a permanent installation, but this is what I'd really like if possible. I don't know where to start finding out though. The portable solutions are ones I've looked into a bit, but with the shape of my windows, the small space, and being ground floor, it doesn't work that well. But I don't know if a permanent installation is possible, and if the maintenance and electricity required would be awful - any ideas?
There is some way that it can vent out via the main water drainage and that's used in some places where you can't get permission to make holes in the walls, but that sounds even more expensive.

For now I have a Dyson tower fan, and a small fan in the bedroom as well!! I move them around but only have two rooms, so I guess it technically is one fan per room really.

Just as an aside, for air con you need an F Gas engineer (different to a gas safe engineer) because that’s who does them.

Good old BBC reporting the shortage of fans for the first time today, last day of the heatwave, like it's only just news!

They've been panic buying any old piece of fan related crap from the local FB group around here for a good month now! We have a little slightly crappy white goods shop on the local high street that never runs out of fans though which they've all tended to forget about!