Opinions on keeping room cool in july/august?

parker163 · March 2011

We live in a 200 yr old house that gets really really hot during the summer months. All of our rooms (which are pretty small due to being such an old house) have air conditioners....including the baby's room right now.

For some reason I don't like the idea of having the air cond. running during the night in the baby's room and I'm not sure the fan would do the trick by itself. MH thinks I'm crazy, but there's something about air that comes out of an air cond that I don't think the baby should be breathing in such a small room (but I can't find any anrticles on the internet about babies and air cond)

We were thinking of leaving the air on during the daytime hours (i'll be home so I can keep checking on it) with the door shut so the room gets nice and cool and then turning it over to just the fan option while the baby sleeps at night.

What is everyone else going to do to keep their baby nice and cool in those hot summer months??

nic5606 · March 2011

We are going to put in a ceiling fan in his room and also have central air.

jen&jay07 · March 2011

I posted a similiar question not too long ago because we are in the same boat. Most ppl said that an AC in the room was fine as long as it wasn't blowing directly on the baby. I was also told that most pedis recommend keeping the room about 70 degrees all year long.

mesr · March 2011

i think that your plan is a fine one, but the baby will then just be breathing the air from your other air conditioners when the fan circulates that air into the baby's room.. so i don't know if there would be much of a difference in terms of baby's health.

DowagerCountessofNJ · March 2011

The only concern I would have with running a fan and not the AC at night is the possibility of creating a convection oven type of situation. If it gets really warm and the windows are shut and you have a fan blowing, you're just circulating hot air in the room, you're not cooling it down at all.

Honestly I think you're fine with running the AC at night. What's the difference between what baby is going to breath in during the day time hours as opposed to at night? You can always clean the filters weekly if you're concerned about dust and other allergens.

Is it a newer model that you can set the thermostat and it'll turn itself on and off accordingly? This way you're not freezing the baby. If not, maybe you'd want to look into that. I had one in my first apartment and it was a God send not just for regulating the temperature but also keeping my electric bill down.

firelight79 · March 2011

the baby's room is way too small in our apartment to put an AC in (and it's the only window). plus we already have 3 other ones. We have a ceiling fan in there already that does a pretty good job and we're planning on leaving the door open when he is not sleeping during the day and then when we are asleep at night (the living room is on the other side of his room so that's just to keep his room quiet) so that the air from the other rooms can circulate into his room. It's basically an experiment at the moment, but we think it will do the trick. We'll also keep a digital thermometer in there to keep an eye on how warm or cold it is in there and adjust accordingly.

Shann50952 · March 2011

We are just planning on the baby sleeping in our room till the end of the summer (his first 3 months) that way we have an AC in our room with a ceiling fan that we will use. I don't want to have to get a 4th AC for our house.

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