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Household Hints & Help

no_hypocrisy

(50,027 posts) Wed Jul 4, 2012, 07:52 PM Jul 2012

Old fashioned "air conditioning" -- Does this work? [View all]

You take a block of ice and put it in front of a fan and the icy air cools you but with a limitation: you have to stay in one place. This isn't likely to cool the room.

I only have a fan and am not interested in getting an air conditioner. I was told this might be a compromise.

Have any of you tried this?

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Old fashioned "air conditioning" -- Does this work? [View all] no_hypocrisy Jul 2012 OP

It is certainly better than a fan alone... PoliticAverse Jul 2012 #1

Can you still get block ice? Downwinder Jul 2012 #2

Yes but it's no longer delivered by horse and carriage... PoliticAverse Jul 2012 #5

It was always cooler to go sit in the Ice House. Downwinder Jul 2012 #9

That's the principle behind evaporative coolers ("swamp coolers") that still remain very viable hlthe2b Jul 2012 #3

Actually. that's not quite accurate JayhawkSD Jul 2012 #7

thank you... hlthe2b Jul 2012 #8

It works, sorta, but raises the humidity... TreasonousBastard Jul 2012 #4

This guy has some pretty good suggestions..... Little Star Jul 2012 #6

I assume that your end result is to keep cool Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #10

folk lore has it that in Arizona's deserts before AC folks would NMDemDist2 Jul 2012 #11

Many, many years ago, I lived in South Florida and did not have A/C. RebelOne Jul 2012 #12

My grandfather told me about doing this Cairycat Aug 2012 #13

my Kansas inlaws told of wetting the top bedsheet... grasswire Aug 2012 #14