How do I cool an apartment with poor cross-ventilation?

Question

I have an apartment that was designed horribly, my complex is half above and half below ground, I am in the half below part so I only have windows on one side of my apartment making cross ventilation impossible. I put a fan in one of the windows and only the one bedroom cooled, even with the other window open it didn't seem like air was being pulled through the house....help

Answer 1

1. (best option)  -  GET AN AC!

2. build an air exhaust duct

3. close up everything and leave ur fridge open

good luck

Answer 2

a portable airconditioner with a hose that blows air outside

Answer 3

Try a ceiling fan.

Answer 4

USA    Difficult to answer without seeing the layout of the apartment.  Put a fan in one window, blowing air in, or have the fan blowing the air out.  Open the window furthest away from the fan, to let the stale air out (or fresh air in).   This might help if the outside air is cooler than the inside air.

Install ceiling fans.  Just having the air move helps quite a lot.

Portable air conditioners (cooling units) are available.  You run flexible hoses to a window, and plug the unit in.  The unit exhausts the heat to the outside.  If you place the unit in one room, put a box type fan in the doorway to the other rooms to blow the cooled air around the apartment.

I hope this helps

Answer 5

Use floor fans placed at angles to the wall, in tthis will cause circulation with placement being critical, angles like 45 or 60 degrees not flat with walls

Answer 6

   Get a window A/C. Remember that a 5,000 btu is jus tpretty much completely  worthless,  Read the box! A 10,000 btu would prob maintain an apartment.

    Preferably one with a thermostat. The most efficient one is one that can stop and start itself to maintain the room temp but mostly runs constantly to just meet your needs.  It costs a LOT of money to start and stop a unit because of the start-up load of th electric motor.

Check your apartment for other heat influences. A computer, on the floor under a desk, can blow constant hot air and be very uncomfotable.  One of our  bedrooms is an office with two computers and two printer/fax machines.  The central heat/air sytem blows out of the ceiling, across the ceiling, back into the hall and back through the airconditioing system in the attic. It just seems to be impossible to drive the hot air generated from the computers out of the room! I replaced the monitors with the flat screen types instead of C.R.T. (big, deep sets) but it was still too hot. Had to leave the attic access hatch propped open in the closet to let the hot air up into the attic. Also propped cardboard sheets between the legs of the desk and the computer..