Is Fall a Good Time to Install a Whole House Fan?

Purchasing a whole house fan is the best way to ventilate your home. If you’re thinking of making the purchase now, you may be wondering if it’s better to wait until the spring or summer when temperatures begin to rise again. That’s why most people get a whole house fan, right?

While installing a whole house fan is a great way to reduce indoor temperatures at a fraction of the cost of air conditioning, whole house fans do a whole lot more than keep things cool. In fact, did you know that you can use your whole house fan in any season?

When is the Best Time to Install a Whole House Fan?
The best time to install a whole house fan is right now, no matter the season. So whether it’s spring, summer, fall, or winter when you’re reading this, there’s no reason to wait. In fact, there’s every reason not to wait.

Why Install Your Whole House Fan in the Fall?
As we discussed, a major reason why most people use whole house fans is to exhaust hot air from their homes during the summer months and create an artificial breeze. However, this only scratches the surface of the benefits your whole house fan provides. 

When you think of a whole house fan, think of the following three advantages:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Air quality

While you may not want to lower temperatures inside the home during the fall, you’ll certainly want to keep humidity and air quality in check, especially before winter comes.

When temperatures begin to drop in autumn and winter, humidity can accumulate in the home, especially once you keep your windows closed, when the humid air meets cold surfaces of your walls, floors, and windows, condensation forms which can cause surfaces to become slippery and rotten.

Furthermore, we tend to think of air pollution as something that exists outside the home when in reality, each of us creates air pollution simply by living our daily lives at home. Cooking, burning candles, running a hot shower, keeping pets, and a host of other activities generate indoor air pollution. Indoor air pollution will build up in the home if you don’t keep it ventilated, so if your windows and doors remain shut throughout the fall and winter, you’ll be exposing yourself to air pollution for about half the year.

However, with a whole house fan, all you have to do is open up a window a couple of times during each season and exhaust all of that humid, polluted air out of your house. It’s quick and easy and will save you a lot of trouble.

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