Top 5 quạt cửa sổ tốt nhất năm 2022

Five out of our seven experts agreed that a twin window fan is a reliable way to both ventilate and cool down a room. Bob Fendell, owner of University Hardware and Housewares, says that twin models “work the best” out of all window fans — and come with the bonus of each fan working independently of each other for more customized cooling. This Lasko Twin Window Fan is a best seller in Maat’s store. “It’s got the ability to go forward, and in reverse, so you can exhaust air,” he explains, noting “if you’ve got a smoky room, you can bring in fresh air.” The Lasko fan is also pretty quiet, and competitively priced, according to Maat. Plus, this comes with expanding side panels that can stretch to fit windows as wide as 35 inches, and a built-in dial that can be adjusted depending on whether you want a room warmer or cooler (when the room reaches your chosen setting, the fan will turn off). Tarzian, Nathaniel Garber Schoen of Garber Hardware, and Ed Warshaw, owner of Warshaw Hardware, also recommend using a twin window fan like this, with each saying that Lasko is a brand he trusts.

[Editor’s note: While this model is currently out of stock, Lasko offers an almost identical version that’s Bluetooth-enabled — so no need to manually move the controls; you can do that right from your phone.]

Holmes is one of the “trustworthy” brands that Joseph Reuben of Reuben Hardware sells in his shop. What makes this model stand out is just how slim it is — it won’t take up the whole window, but it still can be extended width-wise (unlike some box fans, for example) so “you don’t lose your view.” Reuben says that generally, “you would need a large window fan to cool off the whole house, but this model can handle whole-house cooling in a much more compact way.” On the design front, Reuben even called it “a much sleeker design” compared to what he’s seeing on the market now.

If you’re looking for a twin window fan you can set with even more precision, Warshaw recommends this onefrom Holmes. Like the Lasko, this fan has two blades that pull fresh air in and push hot air out, and it has a thermostat — but on this one the thermostat is digital, making it a little “smarter” than the above model, because you can set the fan to blow until the room reaches a more precise temperature (options include 60, 65, 70, 75, and 80 degrees), when it will automatically shut off. “I like that it has a thermostat feature that will shut off the fan when the temperature drops in the middle of the night,” he says. “This way you will not wake up freezing and [have to] shut it off.”

While a twin window fan is ideal for a small apartment or a room, if you’ve got a bigger space to cool, you might want to spring for a box fan. Maat tells us this one is “extremely powerful,” almost to the point of being “enterprise level.” Tarzian, who also recommended this one, agrees that “it’s just a really powerful fan.” He told us that this model is reminiscent of more old-fashioned fans that his family used to sell in their hardware store years ago, that were thenused to cool your whole house. You can re-create the effect of those fans, Tarzian says, by putting this one in the window of a room at the top of your house, opening a window downstairs, and then turning the big fan on the exhaust setting, effectively creating a ventilation circuit. “It’s not an air conditioner, but if the house gets really heated up during the day and then the sun goes down and it gets cooler at night, you can really cool the house off this way,” he says. Reuben is a fan of this model, which is a best seller at his hardware store, and called out how it “allows for the window to close behind it completely for weather protection.”

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