How to Arrange Fans

Unless you live in the dry heat of Arizona, you don't have to run an air conditioner all day long in the hot weather to stay cool. It's a drain on the environment and your wallet. Instead, you can buy a few fans to place in a large room of your house and create an arrangement that will move air around your home to combat the heat. The key to home cooling is aeration and circulation. You need to leave the windows and doors in your home open to keep air moving around. This suggested set up is for a standard living room area.

Fans (about 6 for a medium-to-large living room area)

Instructions

- 1
  Place a twin window fan in each open window in your living area. This will cause the air to move toward the center of the room.
- 2
  Place large oscillating floor fans about 3 feet from each window, with 1 (or more) facing upward to the left side of the room and the others to the right.
- 3
  Place a medium-sized stationary fan on a table at the opposite end of the room that faces toward 1 or both of the windows in your room. Depending on the position of your windows, you could have a triangular setup where the windows are located on adjacent walls and the table fan faces both, or a situation where the windows are on each side of the table fan, with the fan facing just 1 window.
- 4
  Place 1 more standing fan in the next room or hallway of your home where other living spaces are located to help circulate the air from the living room into the rest of the house.

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