Window fans, do you use them in the cooler months?

[phillymatt53]

my mom still uses a Marvin twin window fan i bought her in 2001-it was the only US made fan besides Vornado I could find at the time.The Marvin has two~8" stamped metal fan blades and the whole fan is turned in the window for intake or exhaust.

I got a cool (pun intended) lakewood window fan from a friend about 15 years ago.
My friend said it stopped working and was gonna toss it out.
Seems that the chinese electronic control touch panel crapped out, so I tore that out and replaced it with a traditional 3-position rotary switch for the Low-Med-High speeds and it now gets used in my kitchen window right above the sink.
It's also very quiet too compared to typical fan blade types.
And it even has those expanding accordian panels like window air conditioners have.
No more summertime sweating while washing dishes!
The neat thing is, it's got twin squirrel-cage blowers with the motor in the center.
And it's reversible.

Here's a picture of a similar model that I got off the 'net.

 

[circlew]

My house was built in 1940 as listed on my deed.
It's a brick 18 foot wide rowhome with a rear garage below the dining room.
Also, a backyard that can store two cars, and a front yard 30x18 feet wide.

Interesting story:
When remodeling the bathroom back in 2008, behind the bathroom mirror I saw that it was hung over the original wall opening that used to have one of those 1940s built-in flushmount mirror/medicine cabinets.
The kind that had one of those "slots" to dispose of used razor blades, which would fall down inside the wall.
Out of curiosity, a peek down inside the wall I noticed a bunch of old razorblades still there....... along with a crumpled old newspaper!
I got the newspaper out gently, (it's brittle and yellowed) and saw that it was dated Tuesday September 24, 1940!
It must have been shoved in there by whoever was contracted to build my house, because on the sheetrock wall inside there was a note, barely visible written in pencil saying "Tub in this room scratched- "9-19-40" (the original cast iron tub is still there and just fine).

I still have that old newspaper, it's an American Communist publication called
"Daily Worker New York".
It's got the current stories about WW2 in it, one being the German bombing and invasion of Great Britain, local American news, and of course advertisments for things like woman's dresses and 78 RPM records, etc.
Naturally, I went through reading that old newspaper, I was facinated!
Talk about going BACK in time!

THE HOLE IN THE WALL .......
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That's interesting about the hole for the original cabinet. About the same time, I tore out my bathroom in this 1952 house. My parents had updated the room not long after we moved here in late Summer, 1957. One of the things they did was remove the recessed medicine cabinet, and replace with a large mirror, along with replacing the wall hung sink with one in a cabinet. As I was only two years old then, I had little memory of the room before. When my friend and I removed the mirror, there was the hole left from the old cabinet, and two boxes where light fixtures had been attached. There were splices in one box for the cable going to the new light above. Like you, I found razor blades at the bottom of the wall when I tore out the rock lath and plaster. That wall was totally removed, and that old bathroom is now part of a bedroom.

 

[foraloysius]

Louis; There are these . You'd just need to set the outside part on your deck instead of a window. I can't seem to find them for sale here. If the price was decent I might get one for our upstairs because that portable is very loud. .

Hi Pete,

We have those too. They are very expensive, around 1700 euros. That’ll a lot of money for something I would use only a few days per year. I already had this unit. A neighbour/friend made the insert, the material was 25 euros,

The disadvantage of those portable split units is that the condenser is in the inside unit, so you still have a lot of noise inside.