Cooling a room

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Let's say I have a room that has a lot of heat being generated in it. Is it better to get a fan to blow cold air from another room into the room or use the fan to blow hot air out of the room into another room?

 

[PottedMeat]

blow hot air out, blow cool air in

 

[mizzou]

you want airflow

blowing a fan out won't be enough to decrease the pressure in your room to suck in air from other areas (possibly warm roof / warm outside air / warm basement air/ and maybe some cool air from doorway where fan doesn't blow air into)

 

[lxskllr]

I've been helping a friend out in his 19th century house, and he cools the whole thing using a window unit upstairs, and setting box fans up to distribute the cool. It's a little cluttered with all the fans, but it works very well.

 

[mmntech]

I have the same issue. My bed room doubles as an office/den. It's a heat trap as is but the electronics make it worse. Not sure what to do with it though. Not enough cool air coming up from the AC vent.

 

[lxskllr]

I have the same issue. My bed room doubles as an office/den. It's a heat trap as is but the electronics make it worse. Not sure what to do with it though. Not enough cool air coming up from the AC vent.

If you can't remove the heat source, ceiling fans work very well. They lower the APPARENT temperature at a modest cost.

 

[mmntech]

If you can't remove the heat source, ceiling fans work very well. They lower the APPARENT temperature at a modest cost.

Yeah, thought of doing that. Depends how they've wired the room though since there's no ceiling lights.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Air conditioner...

 

[edro]

Blow cold air in.
The hot air will tend to escape naturally (higher pressure).