Air circulation can play an important role in how comfortable your home is throughout the year. We’ve put together a few home air circulation tips to help you get more out of your HVAC system, reduce your energy bills, and keep every room in your home more comfortable.

Why Is Home Air Circulation Important? 

Air circulation is an element of your home HVAC system that can impact how warm or cool certain rooms are. It can also play a role in your home’s indoor air quality.

Proper air circulation can offer many benefits, including:

  • Preventing the buildup of allergens, dust particles, and mold
  • Dissipating odors
  • Ventilating fumes from cooking
  • Redistributing warm and cold air evenly

How to Improve Air Circulation in Your House

Improving air circulation can be accomplished in several ways. It may be helpful to identify what your pressing concerns are and tackle those issues specifically. For instance, homes without adequate external ventilation can experience stagnant air, which can lead to poor indoor air quality.

Open Doors and Windows

For a quick influx of fresh air, make a point to open doors and windows when seasonally appropriate. Experiment with opening windows in different rooms to create a crossflow of outdoor air that can carry stagnant air to the outdoors.

Note that opening windows and doors during spring, summer, and fall allergy seasons may hurt air quality for allergy suffers. If this is a problem for you or your family, you may need to open windows late at night or on days without substantial wind to reduce the allergens entering your home.

Install Exhaust Fans 

Exhaust fans in the bathroom and kitchen do an excellent job of pulling odors, fumes, and moisture up and out of your home. This can also reduce humidity (from showers and cooking) and quickly move potential contaminants from the air your family breathes indoors.

Utilize Ceiling Fans

While exhaust fans draw and vent air out of your home, ceiling fans simply redirect air within your home by pushing or pulling it, depending on the rotational direction in which the fan’s blades are set. A trick is to use ceiling fans or box fans to move air throughout your home strategically. For example, you might blow the cool air of your basement upstairs to a living area during the summer months. Home air circulation during the winter could direct air from warmer rooms, like an upper floor, downward to make downstairs living spaces feel cozier.

Use Your HVAC System to Improve Air Circulation 

Your HVAC system’s fan feature also improves air circulation. Leaving your automatic fan setting on makes full use of your home’s ventilation to move air and remove stagnant air through exhaust vents.

Call One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning for Home Air Circulation Assistance

At One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning, we help homeowners stay comfortable year-round with trustworthy HVAC installation, repair, and maintenance. Get the most out of your heating system and air conditioner with timely, professional technicians with the experience it takes to do the job right. Call (800) 893-3523 or request an appointment today!