Improve air circulation in your home part 2 - DIY woodworking India

Improve air circulation in your home

Welcome friends. Lets continue our discussion from where we left in our previous post. Please go through it to know more about the use case about the room having only a single door. Today, lets take another use case where we have one door and and a window.

This is one of the most familiar room structure in apartments and standalone houses. It has a door in one end and a window in the opposite side. First thing we need to check when both the door and window are open, does air circulate or flow from one side to another? It does matter because although you have passages for the same, the room may be surrounded by another closed wall particularly outside the door. For example, another room attached to the door side and what if the door and window of the same are closed. In that case, air will not be circulated. In most of the rooms as shown in the above picture, we do have ceiling fans. But in most of the cases, table fan as shown in the below picture has advantage as it can be placed according to your need and it can get you fresh air quickly.

In the above picture, the fan is blowing towards the window, creating low pressure instantly at its back and air will come from the door. In case of ceiling fan, air is blown downwards and that air tries to escape from both door and window. But from where the air will come in? The same door and the window have to do facilitate that. In the old houses, we always had ventilator just below the roof level. Now-a-days most of the builders do not provide that. Those ventilators played a vital role in facilitating incoming air for the ceiling fan which is at the similar level of that of the former. Another role of ventilator is to provide a passage to hot air to go outside. Remember, hot air has less density than cold air and the former stays above it.

Considering that we do not have ventilators in most of the rooms in our houses, table fan is more advantageous than ceiling fan! Follow the same practice in your home for couple of days and let me know the results.