Make Your Own Quiet And Cool Whole House Fan System

I used 34 plywood for the door as i had a couple of sheets left over from previous work.

Fan clutch oil refill. The quiet cool fans are easy to install and have insulated self closing damper doors that create a positive closure to prevent air from freely flowing from the house to the attic when the fans are not in operation. 2 gable fans home depot 84 1650 cfm each. An airscape whole house fan creates a wonderfully fresh living and sleeping environment for a fraction of the cost of ac.

I copied your plans with only slight modifications. These fans bring cool fresh air into the home from the outside. Newer models are significantly quieter than traditional style.

12 insulated duct 46 i had. It is best to use these types of fans to quickly remove over heated air from homes into attics. Whenever evenings cool off it just makes sense to harness the cool fresh air nature provides rather than expensively conditioning your own.

For us thats the hallway. Our whole house fans utilize what already exists to create something offered nowhere else. Armed with your plans i found a decent reasonably well rated 30 drum fan 3 speed.

Similar to the quiet cool systems that cost over 1000. I ripped 2x4s to make 2x2s for the door jamb and the fan door. Whole house fans are usually placed in a ceiling towards the middle of the house.

Whole house fans can help homeowners save a significant amount of money on their cooling costs in climates where the evenings and nights are cool. The best part of the blog is the images and the explanation of every single image. Here is a whole house fan system i installed in my house.

The quiet cool fans are a multi fan and multi location system that moves large volumes of air cfm per fan. If you are interested in saving at least 1000 over a similiar selling whole house fan system this is the information you are looking for. Whole house fans are a great way to save on cooling costs in the summer spring and fall.

This is a complete do it yourself whole house fan system assembly guide. New models like our centricair and qa deluxe whole house fans cost just pennies an hour to run. Unfortunately between the attic access door and the intake for the central heater our hallway ceiling had no room to fit a standard whole house fan.

They pull the cooler outside air into your home and push the hot a. Why people love whole house fans.