How to cool your house in a grid down

Be prepared if things get tough, or even if they don’t!

Meaning, multi-use of preps. RV is great for preps and also great for family adventures.

Same with cooling your house. If things don’t get tough, your AC bill goes down 60% (where I live) and you extend your AC system’s life.

In grid down, a inverter attached to your car can run a whole house fan much much easier than an AC systems watt/amps requirements.

I have a switch I can plug my house into a generator, but you can only store so much gas for the generator, but a battery bank can be top’d off once or twice a day with a car generator (trust me, your car will run a lot longer than your generator).

Whole House Fan Pros

• Pull in cool air during the cool parts of the day
• recycle the air in your home 20+ times an hour – helps with your health!
• cool off attic, so your AC unit doesn’t have to work as hard during the hot parts of the day
• pull cool air from basement to upstairs where it is needed
• In my area, it was 100 degrees all week, but every morning it was 66 degrees. In a few minutes I can pull in and cool my house with much higher volume than an AC unit
• Pet or food smells, you can pull those out in seconds with a whole house fan.

Buy or build?

I was going to buy one from lowes.com (they don’t have them in stores). But after rebates and 15 year warranty, it was less than $200 to install in difference.

The installers had it installed and configured in about 1 hour.

SAVE $75! if you use wholehousefansofutah.com if you say Thomas E from Saratoga Springs referred you. I’ll get $150 and I’ll split that with you, so we each get $75.

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I have about 4000 sq foot house, so I don’t need the biggest unit, but I wanted to be able to have extra buffer for capacity and it was another $100-200 ish to get the biggest one.

TIPS

• cracking a window a couple of inches in the farthest room in the basement, and having the remote near my bed, when I wake up early AM. I can turn the fan on and get a heads start. (w/o getting out of bed in the am)
• Ours came with two remotes. I mounted one to the wall and I keep the other near my bed.
• if you open your 2nd story window before you go to bed and turn off your AC (you don’t need to, but I’m a miser on elec), then you are all set to pull in super cold air in the AM
• think about your garage, and cooling it. I can close the man-door to the outside and the two garage doors, but keep the man-door into the house not latched and the whole house fan will pull the door open in the morning and pull cool air in (again w/o getting out of bed)

FEATURE REQUEST

Automate windows! and timed/scheduled with whole house fan.

• Just 2 windows in far parts of the house would make all the difference. I’d schedule 3am to open 2 windows and then a few minutes later kick the whole house fan on LOW. I can’t hear it from our bedrooms when on low. I’m told they are working on this! I googled around trying to find a window slider that would work.

Where a whole house fan doesn’t make sense IMO

• If you live in very hot climate like AZ
• If you live in very high humidity climates like Florida