How to choose a floor fan for your home

The most common devices designed to overcome the debilitating summer heat are fans and air conditioners. Many people perceive fans as a relic of the past, believing that against the background of modern air-conditioned systems, they have lost their effectiveness hopelessly. Air conditioners really cool the room in a short period of time; however, unlike fans, they do not differ in mobility, require complex installation work, and, moreover, often provoke the development of colds. And given that air conditioners are not at all cheap, sometimes the choice in favor of the fan becomes obvious.

The most reliable and convenient device for home use is a floor fan, which provides maximum cooling even in large areas. They are different, so "House of Dreams" offers to understand the types of fans and the principles of their work, to facilitate the choice of a device for cooling an apartment, house or office.

Floor fan

What are floor fans

Floor fan is a construction on a leg, the height of which can often be adjusted. In addition to height regulation, often modern manufacturers leave the opportunity to change the angle and rotation of the fan itself, so you can choose the most comfortable blowing angle.

Outdoor floor fan

Depending on the mode of operation, floor fans for the house are classified into three subgroups:

axial;
radial;
bezlopastnye.

Axial fans are equipped with an engine with a paddle wheel. When you turn on the impellers rotate in the same plane, due to which the "distillation" of air occurs. Fans of this type instantly cool the blown zone, but often they are not able to affect the entire room.

How to choose a floor fan

The radial air fan for home has a more sophisticated and perfect mechanism. The construction of this device is equipped with a rotor with curved blades that move the air, pushing it back into the room. Air, recycled by a radial fan, has a head and, like a light wind, spreads around the room, cooling even the non-blown zone.

Fans for the house floor radial

However, a bladed fan is considered to be a better and more efficient one. This construction is a round metal frame equipped with a motor. During operation, the motor draws in air, accelerates it, and then pushes it into the room. Since the air processed by the engine has a powerful current, it also captures free air layers, so that the temperature in the room quickly decreases.

Bezlopastnaja the fan for the house

But it is not necessary to choose the fan for the house, being guided only only by its way of work. Proceeding from the technical characteristics, it is obvious that radial and bezlopastnye fans have a number of advantages over axial structures, but often fans are only needed for temporary cooling of a small zone, and this model is also successfully coped with a standard model.

In addition to modernity and design features, when choosing a fan, it is worth paying attention to its additional functions.

Additional features of

floor fans In the view of many people, the fan is a simple enough device, the main task of which is the processing and cooling of air. However, progress does not stand still, and many manufacturers decided to give such a simple design additional very useful features.

How to choose a good fan for the house

For example, a good outdoor fan can be equipped with the possibility of remote control. Thanks to the control panel, you can change the operation mode of the floor fan even at a distance.

Fan outdoor photo

As you know, any cooling and heating devices overdry the air, which negatively affects human health. However, this remains in the past, because some models of floor fans are additionally equipped with a humidity control sensor. Once the air in the room has lost the required amount of moisture, the fan sensor will turn on the humidifying evaporator, which will restore the normal balance. Also, the fan can be equipped with an air ionizer, which not only moistens the air, but also cleans it.

Floor fan for home photo

Floor fan with humidifier

The presence and backlight can also be included in the useful options of the indoor floor fan. Thanks to the presence detector, the device automatically switches to work when a person enters the room and turns off - when the room is empty. And the lighting makes it easier to control the fan in the dark.

What to look for when choosing a floor fan

Regardless of the degree of availability of additional functions, the fan will cool the room qualitatively only if its capacity corresponds to the dimensions of the blown space. The power of modern outdoor fans ranges from 30 to 140 watts. As a rule, for rooms of standard size it is enough to have a device with a capacity of 50 to 80 W.

If you purchase an axial fan, first of all pay attention to the diameter of its blades, on which the intensity of blowing depends. In addition, for safety of use, the blades of the structure must always be protected with a strong fine mesh.

Fans with cooling

An important parameter is the fan noise level. As a rule, the more power the device, the louder it works. However, it is desirable that the noise level in a residential building does not exceed 30-35 decibels.

Also a good unit should have several blowing modes, becausethis will allow you to choose the most appropriate cooling method.

How to choose a floor fan for the house

To the comfortable fans you can also include models on a short leg. It can be outdoor-desktop fans, which are convenient to put on a bedside table or desk, also convenient for them in the office.