How to make Room's celling COLD !!!

@akp100 (13640)
India
October 13, 2010 3:54am CST
hello friends :) My bedroom is on first floor just under the terrace floor.. Now here we having still too much hot weather . Because of sunlight our terrace get too much hot.. And because of that my rooms celling get hot and my fan is throwing hot air... Is their anyway i can cool down it ??
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
13 Oct 10
From what I know about our ceiling fan, there is a way to reverse it. I would look into getting blinds, or curtains. If you know the manufacturer of the fan, maybe you could go on the net and see if there is a switch to get it to throw cold air. I guess you do not have a portable air conditioner or a thermostat control in your place so that you could turn the temperature so the air conditioner starts to work.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
14 Oct 10
We can do with ours. It reverses the air flow, but I guess the other methods would help. It would help if we knew if you owned your own place because if you do not, some of the suggestions I read here besides mine would need a landlord's permission.
@akp100 (13640)
• India
13 Oct 10
I never hear about modifying celling fan!!! I don't think we can modify them by which they throw cold air.. At least not fan we having hear..
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@akp100 (13640)
• India
14 Oct 10
well..i am having my own place so modification is no problem.. I got many other ideas from other members too..
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@veronizm (907)
• Philippines
13 Oct 10
Hmmm...How low is your ceiling? Coz what I know is that when your ceiling is very low then the house/room can be very hot. We once lived on a rented house that has a low ceiling and the house was indeed very hot! We weren't able to take anymore it so we moved to a house that has a ceiling high enough so that air can properly circulate inside the house. If your ceiling though is not low and your room still gets hot then maybe you can put some curtains in your terrace which you can pull down only when the sun is out and streaming directly unto your terrace. Or you can also put some indoor plants in your room. At least the heat coming in will be lessen. Hope it helps :)
@akp100 (13640)
• India
13 Oct 10
My room's celling is not low.. And i am not telling that i am having direct sun light in my room .... On my room we are having terrace and due to lots of hot it got heated.. And because of that hot celling above my fan is throwing hot air.. Now how can i put curtains on celling!!!!
@veronizm (907)
• Philippines
13 Oct 10
Hi akp, I did not say put curtains on your ceiling. And I also did not say that you are having direct sunlight in your room. What I said was put curtains on your terrace, (since you said that your room is under your terrace right?). And that you can pull down the curtains when the sun is streaming into your terrace, NOT into your room. It's like shielding your terrace from the sun so that it wouldn't get hot, hence so your ceiling wouldn't get hot.
@akp100 (13640)
• India
13 Oct 10
Okay... I guess i misunderstood.. Hope this will work. How about shielding terrace surface from wet curtains or with some other wet but thick cloth.. Will it more effect or it will be the same ??
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
13 Oct 10
This summer I made some paper fans and put them in glaring locations. It increased the darkness, but gave relief from heat. Who wanted glaring light anyway? But seems not a right solution for your problem..... why not wet your terrace regularly...? Maybe it will help in cloud formation.....
@akp100 (13640)
• India
13 Oct 10
Thats what i am doing currently.. I do wet my terrace regularly in these days. And yes it is giving some relief.. :) I guess paper work will not work here on my problem. But yeah water gives some relief. :)
@AgentDas (97)
• India
13 Oct 10
Get a fan and place it near your bed. Then take some clothes pins and pin your sheet around all edges of the fan. Make sure that the rest of the sheet is tucked in around the bed and under your head/pillow. Its like sleeping in an air conditioned bubble. Works great! Keep the door to your bedroom open, so that there is proper air circulation from other rooms. Keep in mind that this may not improve your condition if your house, apartment, etc. is the same temperature or hotter than your bedroom. Still another option is to get a large powerful fan, such as one at least 16" in diameter and put it facing outward in a window in another room than the one you are sleeping in. Then, close all other windows in the house except the one the fan is in, and where people are sleeping near. The fan will exhaust hot air out of the room and create a vacuum which will pull in the cooler night air from the outside through the open windows where people are sleeping. Prop the doors in the bedroom(s)somewhat next to yours open, to create a path for air to migrate. This is much more effective than having a loud fan blowing the same hot room-temperature air back at you. It also does not suck small bugs through the screen like having the fan pointed inward sometimes does. This, of course, assumes it is nighttime, and that it has become significantly cooler outside than during the day, when your room celling warmed up. If you have a lot of people sleeping or you want more airflow, get a more powerful fan, or put another exhaust fan facing another open window. You can use a air conditioner for your room.
@akp100 (13640)
• India
13 Oct 10
Thanks for all of them :) I will try some of them.. I don't understand the first way properly .. I am talking about pin sheet around fan edges.. can you explain it in more easy ways.. What kind of sheet are you talking about ??
• India
13 Oct 10
And One way is left - You can wet the terrence with water daily twise. It will help to get your celling cold.