Do you use a fan in your bedroom?
Could be a ceiling fan, oscillating, or box fan.
I’m mostly thinking of summer, but winter counts too.
We turn our central AC up to 78 at night and sleep with a oscillating fan that blows across the bed
Saves money. But I like sleeping under a fan. It’s comforting and relaxing. Love the sound of it running. It goes back to childhood when we opened the windows in the Spring and used fans.
Took awhile to convince my wife, but she enjoys it too.
No fans during winter. Wouldn’t make sense to heat the room that much and use a fan.
Yes, I use one all year. I tend to have a very difficult time falling asleep without the white noise.
It would if you put the (ceiling) fan on low and direct the air downward.
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Yes, mainly for white noise in the wintertime. I installed a window A/C in our bedroom (upstairs) and we run that during the summer. Substantial energy savings over the central air. We’re cooling one room instead of five.
We have a pedestal fan that use only in the summer. After a few years of waking up sweaty at 2 AM and having to get up to turn the thing on, we got one with a remote!
I guess, when it’s very warm, I leave the central fan on all the time so the hot air doesn’t puddle in my bedroom, but the fan isn’t in the bedroom, so I voted “no”.
I don’t like fans. I mean, they are better than being too warm. But I don’t like white noise, and find it slightly stressful. I have to live with white noise all day at work. I don’t want it at home. So I only use it when I need it for climate control.
I dislike ceiling fans even more. Seeing one out of the corner of my eye is like a flickering light bulb. I don’t actually get seizures from either, but I understand how people do. I find it disequilibriating.
Yes, on the highest level possible, all year round. Both for the noise and the circulation (I think my bedroom generates free energy or something, it’s impossible to cool). And I always travel with one* (or acquire one at the destination); it’s probably some kind of security blanket at this point.
*Not a huge box or pedestal fan, a smaller roundish one that’s made to sit on the floor.
All my bedrooms have ceiling fans. In my bedroom, the fan stays on constantly. I need the white noise and the gentle circulation. At someone else’s house, I have a difficult time falling asleep if there’s no fan in the bedroom.
We use a fan.
Odd diversion, but for the sake of nostalgia, I love cranking up the old window unit, feeling it blast cold air into the room. Reminds me of when I was a kid, cranking up the old Friedrich.
I will use them, or a equivalent, such as a air purifier which has a fan. I will also use a/c and set the fan to run continuously. I don’t like stagnant air.
I didn’t realize so many people enjoy the sound of a fan. I assumed it was just one of my eccentricities.
I used to love using my attic fan in early spring and Fall. Neighborhood has gone downhill and it’s just not safe opening that many windows. Pollen is also a problem as we’ve gotten older. Attic fans suck a lot of it into a house.
Yep, all year.
No ceiling fans or window fans. We did have a ceiling fan installed in our previous house in the master bedroom, but that’s the only one. We’ll just open windows if it’s not hot enough to use A/C, or close the windows and use A/C. For us, that point is around 78F. (Which is what it is in the house right now, though it still feels pretty okay to me, so we might push it to 80F).
I do love an attic fan. Very little noise, but lots of air flow.
We use ours for white noise. I’ve had one regularly running at night since 1975, in college, to cut down the dorm racket.
I feel like I’m the only person in the world who can’t stand white noise: well, I suppose rain and ocean waves are fine (though I suppose that isn’t pure white noise), but otherwise, it drives me batty. My wife had one of those white noise machines when we met, and I just could not fall asleep with it on. I have to fall asleep to sounds of conversation. Not sure where it comes from, but from when I was about 10, I liked to put on talk radio or the news and fall asleep to that. Still do, today, although now it’s the audio from Youtube videos on my phone.
In winter, you want to direct the air upward. That way the fan isn’t blowing on you (so no wind chill effect), but as it pulls the cool air up, the warm air that has risen to the ceiling gets forced back down.
We have a ceiling fan that’s always on. Because it’s silent, my wife brought in another fan for the white noise.
I run a fan AND a ten-hour YouTube of rain falling. Hey, I grew up without air conditioning in a climate where summers are hot and it rains a lot.