People are just realising they’ve been using their fans all wrong – here’s how to do it
PEOPLE are only now realising they’ve been using their fans all wrong – this is what you should be doing.
With the sun currently shining brightly and temperatures starting to rise as we head towards summer, people are getting their fans out to keep cool and a good night’s sleep.
Warmer temperatures can often lead to disturbed sleep as people find it harder to drift off.
But it appears people have been using their fans the wrong way around.
TikTok user Leah White, who has the account @leahwhite4828, went on to the social media site to explain all to her 8,000 followers, with many being left gobsmacked at the revelation.
In her clip, which has gained more than 1.8million views so far, Leah, shared how she had been using fans wrongly, despite thinking there was only one way to use it.
She captioned the video to her useful life hack: ‘I need to try this. I have never known this and I am 33.’
Leah said: “We’re in a new build and it’s quite a small house, so it retains heat so well and it’s absolutely boiling every night.
“We’ve been having a fan on and we’ve been waking up sniffing and we’ve got a cold – and I’m guessing that’s from having a fan on all night.
“I saw someone’s TikTok saying that’s not how fans are used in bedrooms. I’m 28 years old – and please someone tell me that I’m not the only one who didn’t know this.
“Apparently you’re meant to have the fan facing a window with the windows open – and then you turn the fan on and it basically sucks all of the warm air out of the room outside.
“And then at night when it’s cool turn it to other way around and it pulls the cool fresh night air in.
“I’ve just had it on for 15 minutes and my room is probably the coolest it has ever been.”
She asked: “Did anyone else know this or was it just me being absolutely stupid?”
Clearly her video hit a nerve with other users of the site, notching up more than 2,500 comments – with many revealing they were shocked.
One person wrote: “I didn’t know but shall try it.”
A second added: “What?! I’ve just had it blowing directly in my face.”
Another commentator wrote: “I’m way older than you and just learned this today.”
While a fourth said: “I never knew that, but I do remember walking past a house that had two fans in a window like that, and I thought that was weird. But I will try it now.”