Summer Cooling Bills Making You Sweat?

Cool Down With A Whole House Fan Installed by TS Construction-Installation Specialists!

Whole house fans have been around for a while, long before central and room air conditioners became the popular cooling method. But today's soaring electrical prices make whole house fans a smart choice, especially considering our geographical location. Our region is blessed by the Delta breeze. A whole house fan can put that cooling breeze to work, saving you money!

The whole house fan is mounted in the attic above the ceiling near the center of a home, typically in a hallway, laundry room or stairwell. Windows or doors must be open while the fan is running. The fan flushes cool outside air into your house, while pulling hot, stale air up through the attic and out.

Whole house fans are accessibly priced, even when combined with professional installation. Because whole house fans use one tenth the electricity that an air conditioning system uses, these fans usually pay for themselves within a few seasons, making them a smart, cost effective cooling choice.

TS Construction offers high quality Triangle Engineering fans and installation. Summer's almost here. Put that Delta breeze to work for you!

How does it Work?

Whole house fans utilize a very simple strategy. The fan pulls cool outdoor air inside though open, screened windows, and exhausts hot indoor air up through the attic to the outside. You get lower indoor temperatures and superb ventilation. Hot attic air is also blown out, drastically dropping interior home temperatures.

You can use a whole house fan as a sole means of cooling, or at the least, to reduce the need to run a more costly air conditioner. Whole house fans also rid the home of unwanted odors.

Whole house fans work best when outside temperatures are lower (below 80 degrees) than inside temperatures. In our region, with dry air and Delta breezes that markedly drop evening temperatures, whole house fans offer a very effective, low cost cooling advantage.

Whole house fans save money! Overall, a whole house fan uses about one-tenth the electricity that a central air conditioner uses to cool a home. It's not uncommon to see a difference of up to 90 percent in cooling bills.

Run the whole fan in the early morning to pre-cool interior walls and furnishings, and delay turning on the air conditioner. Later, running the whole house fan in the evening when the outside temperature drops below your home's interior temperature, again reduces the time your air conditioner runs. You can use your whole house fan as your primary, more cost-effective cooling solution, and just use your air conditioner for the hottest days. The resulting energy savings equates lower SMUD and PG&E bills!

Work Our Delta Breeze

In the Sacramento Valley, we may live about 100 miles east of the great Pacific Ocean, but we still reap its benefits, especially during our sizzling summers. That's when the Delta breeze mercifully sweeps in during most summer evenings to cool us off with nature's air conditioner.

When the thermometer starts rising early in the morning, the land heats the air. The hot, lighter air rises, then cools in a circulation of air cycle called the convection current. But by the time those triple digits hit in the afternoon, that hot air mass grows vertically. When high pressure spreads that hot air horizontally, it travels out to sea where it becomes dense and falls. When that hot air hits the sea, it pushes the cool marine layer from the ocean through the Delta and inland to us. That's what makes our summer nights bearable.

A whole house fan puts that Delta breeze to work for you, pulling its cool air into your home and pushing the hot air  out of your attic. Taking advantage of our Delta breeze with a whole house fan can cut your cooling costs dramatically.