You get up at 7 in the morning to go to work and you do it sweating. You get out of the shower and within 2 minutes of toweling off (even sooner), you start sweating again. You get to work, roasting under the sun, and when you get home you don’t even give yourself a swim in the pool it seems to calm what the heat wave is doing to your body.
We spend the day glued to the fan (because life is cruel, we don’t have air conditioning and we still haven’t been able to escape to one of these cool towns) by the high temperatures during the heat wave, but the moving air is still hot. Until now, because we have the ultimate trick for the fan to blow cold air.
Experts say that the fan loses effectiveness from 35º, because it only moves hot air, it does not cool the environment and it gives off an unpleasant sensation of dryness. In addition to learning where to put the fanwith this trick you will get the air that comes out to be fresh, and best of all: you can do it at home with a little skill and it works.
How to get your fan to blow cold air like an air conditioner
To convert your fan into version 2.0 you will need two plastic bottles (bottles of water or any soft drink are worth it), and to start with, scissors or a cutter or sharp knife. We will start by opening the bottoms of the bottles without cutting them all the way. With a knife or other tool, we make some holes in the bottom of the bottleleaving the mouth part intact.
We hook the bottles to the back of the fan using a zip tie, a wire, or even a carabiner (it’s better to use at least two hooks so it doesn’t dance when we turn on the fan), and placing the stopper part towards the ground and the open part, towards the ceiling.
It’s time to put ice in the bottle (We can add salt so that the ice takes longer to melt as an endothermic reaction is created) and turn on the fan. The air caught by the fan will be colder and when the ice melts, we can “open” the bottle by turning the cap and empty it to add new ice.
In this YouTube video you can see how to do it:
This trick is added to the ones we already told you about. sleep cool without air conditioningand it is a solution for all the houses in which we do not have air conditioning, and after trying it we can confirm something: it works.
Photos | Braxton Apana Y Daniil Onischenko in unsplash