Box Fan In My Attic Access Cooling My Garage

Install electric ventilators and attic fans which remove hot air from an attic.

Box fan in my attic access cooling my garage.

The attic fan assuming that you have louvers in the attic to vent to incoming air will draw air either from the rest of your house or from your open bedroom window or both. This fits your. One of the cheapest garage cooling solutions you can use that s still effective is a simple oscillating household fan. The gf 14 is the 1 garage fan and attic cooler in the usa it moves the hot air out of the garage into the attic through the fan mounted in the garage ceiling.

Step 5 tape strips of plastic tarp using duct tape to the sides top and bottom of the fan to cover the seam between it and the attic wall. Pedestal fans box fans or even better a higher powered shop fan will get the air in your garage moving. The whole house fan is installed inside the attic between the living space and ceiling. Lind march 3 2006 11 10pm 2.

If you have more than one fan place them at a window or at your open garage door to blow hot air from inside your garage to the outside. I inspected a house today with an attic fan installed in the garage ceiling never seen this before. The warm air escapes through the attic and to the attic vents allowing the circulation of chilly air from the windows. At least it might feel cooler.

They have thermostats that turn the fan on at a recommended preset temperature of 100 110 degrees. My idea is to vent the build up of hot air that has risen to the ceiling in the hotspot rooms into the attic so that air from cooler parts of the house can move in. If there is not a sufficient firewall between the house portion and the garage then a significant fire hazard. The fan is not vented to the exterior.

Make sure this fits by entering your model number. Low cfm similar to a bathroom vent 300cfm and only in the hot spots basically by adding an inline ducting fan to the return ducts for the hotspot rooms. Place the box fan open side facing away from you into the opening where the attic grille was. Alternatively install passive vents such as gable soffit and ridge vents which are openings in the roof that allow hot air to escape.

Fire separation venting into attic. If the other sources of air are cooler than the air in your bedroom then the room will become cooler. Use a wood handsaw to enlarge the opening if necessary before putting the fan in.