Should I vent air out with the air conditioner on?

Question

My bedroom is the furthest away from the AC unit. That means the room is also the hottest in the house with the AC on. Should I put a window fan in the room and blow the hot air out? This will cause the AC to run more and I've broken the "closed loop" system. It should make the bedroom cooler or would it be better to just lower the overall house temp by a couple of degrees. Thanks.

Answer 1

I am an A/C service technician, and most problems with rooms that are the futherest away from the unit and is not cooling the room is due to return air not pulling air from the room. In order to cool the room you have to change air in room so many times an hour,you can add all the air you want to the room but if air (heat) is not being pulled from the room you will not acomplish nothing,air has to be treated and exchanged by A/C unit.You have to be able to remove heat from room that comes through windows,walls,ceiling,etc. Try this: if you keep your door shut keep it open and see what happens, and if you keep your door open set your fan in front of door and pull air from room and blow it toward the return air (A/C Filter) On larger houses with same problems as yours I have had to add A return air filter grill in room to be able to remove the heat in the room faster than in comes in (windows,walls, ceilings,etc.) Do Not Take A/C Filter Out Of Unit,instead change it often, Its there for A reason and will only creare more problems latter.

Answer 2

It sounds like you are the furthest room away from a central air conditioner. The best bet is to let the unit work at maximum possible efficiency; which means don't use a window fan while the ducts are supplying your room with conditioned air. The main effect that makes the room more comfortable often results from removing excess humidity followed by cooling the air. Use a tissue (or cigarette smoke?) to see if you are getting reasonable air flow from the duct(s) to your room. An inexpensive humidity detector might also demonstrate that humidity is actually being lowered. As the central AC removes heat from the house (and rejects it outside) the difference between temperatures at the high and low elevations of the house may more nearly equalize improving flow to harder to cool areas. Rather than a small window fan, a small window AC would permit you to isolate and cool your room by itself. They can be set in "sleep" mode to run for one or two hours, etc. as you go to sleep and that likely will keep your room comfortable all night and save energy too. Good luck.

Answer 3

You have an A/C which is situated some distance from your room. The temperature of your room is warmer than other places close to the A/C. You want to be cooler in your room, what should you do?

You need to cool off the warm air in your room by mixing it with the cool air from else where. This can be accomplished with a fan that will circulate the air from the cooler zone to the warmer zone. A ceiling fan in your room will mix the higher warm air with the cooler lower air. This will cause a well mixed uniform room temperature. A small fan blowing into your room will also facilitate cool air circulation.

If there is direct sunlight coming into your room, CLOSE THE SHADE! Radiant heat from the sun will very very effectively heat the room. White shades are best!

If it is hot enough to have the A/C on, your (warm) room will be cooler than outside. Installing a window fan will suck cooler air out of the house thus cooling your town off. Additionally hot air will be drawn in from outside, which will be cooled off by the A/C. This will make the A/C cool this warm air off. Obviously the window fan idea is not an option.

Heat will be dissipated by the fan(s) into the room but the net effect is generally cooler.

Answer 4

Your fan is more likely to create additional heat in your home.
It's like trying to cool down the house by keeping the refridgerator door open. Ultimately you will be adding more heat while pumping out a small portion of the cool air that the a/c made.

Removing your air filter will increase air flow through the system or change it out with a filter that will pass more air.

Answer 5

Try putting a fan in the hallway and let it point into the bedroom it helps circulate the air into that room.

Answer 6

venting the hot air from your room would pull the ac into it as long as the AC is the only open input from your house, otherwise it will just pull in more hot air

Answer 7

sounds like it should help

Answer 8

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