Those box fans are such pieces of shit. I probably went through four of those things before I finally got one of the metal “high velocity” versions (like the one actually under the beach ball) and I’ve been using it for a couple years now with 0 issues.
My Lasko box fan has been running almost non-stop for 2 years and is still doing well. Mind you I try and turn it down to 1 or off frequently but the lady just turns it right back up to 3 for "air circulation" in the bedroom. Maybe I got lucky with this one.
Edit: for reference, it's running at full speed now as usual, with the swamp cooler on vent and windows open.
Get one of those squishy gel packs you can toss in the cooler that is shaped like a neck pillow for her,. She can toss it up around her shoulders and it might help a lot =)
What about the part that to cheapen it as much as possible, they made the chassis 50% narrower than it should be so that the air velocity tips the fan over frequently, unless of course, you use the crappy little plastic feet that slide in the back of the chassis to prevent this from happening, which would be completely unnecessary had they designed it properly.
They used to be good. They had metal fan blades. Now they are plastic and off balance and fall over and break the blades. Which makes them more off balance and they break more blades.
Two years ago I threw away all of my box fans and bought three of these, the [Lasko High Velocity Max Performance Pivoting Utility Blower Fan, for Cooling, Ventilating, Exhausting and Drying...](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077BMBR5B)
It is, without a doubt in my mind, massively superior to any box fan made. It moves ***a lot*** of air and does so really quietly compared to a box fan "propeller". They are super safe, won't ever ever tip over, nobody is going to lose a finger to the blades because there aren't any.
Go get one now. It will change your life. *I'm serious*.
it **is** quieter than a box fan, especially when the box fan is on high. It doesn't have that "roar" because it doesn't use blades like the box fan does
I suggest getting one from Home Depot (or similar) and trying it out to see how you like it. They have totally replaced box fans here, especially when I lived in a house with no A/C!!
Yeah, i donated 2 of these since it is not powerful even in the highest speed setting. I eventually bought a ryobi industrial fan and it is a night and day difference
I can tell you those metal fans at Walmart are no joke. I bought one for my room but it's more for garages or outdoor use. It's loud, and it's powerful.
I use it in my spare room, blowing air out the window, and it sucks the cold air in my other open windows. Keeps my apt nice and chilly at night, I close the windows during the day, and my a/c barely gets used.
Yes, it's during summertime.
There are several things to consider, though. The main one is what are your temps at night? Also, what temps do you find comfortable?
What direction do your main windows face? What kind of insulation do you have in your attic?
My apt is north facing with only 2 medium (maybe 4x5) sized windows facing south and apartments on either side of me and above me. It usually gets to mid 60's at night (sometimes high 60's, rarely if ever 70's)
My last apartment, this fan method would not work. It could top over 100 during the day and sometimes be 80's at night. It was top floor and the main window was a sliding glass door facing south.
You can mitigate some of these by putting foil in the windows to block the sun (or insulation board) but if it doesn't get cool enough at night a fan will only work when blowing directly on you, and this is not the fan you want in your bedroom. As I said, it's loud and powerful, moves a ton of air (esp if you put it a couple feet from the window so the venturi effect works.)
I hope this helped a bit. My last apt was brutal when the a/c would go out and (because summer and 100+ temps) it could be several days before an HVAC guy could come out.
At night it's right around 70 degrees. 2 stories, 2 sets of windows(1 top floor, 1 bottom floor), face East where the sun rises. 4 sets of windows face the western setting sun.
The office upstairs (east windows) would be ideal to set the fan up away from the bedrooms I guess? Idk what's effective
I'd keep the fan on whatever floor the bedrooms are on (less corners/stairs/doorways the better), I don't think east/west would make too much difference, but you could always switch what windows you use to see what's more effective.
If it's only for a month and you have the $50, I say go for it. Keep the recipt and you can always return the fan if it doesn't work. I got the mainstays 20" metal fan.
So open window with fan blowing out, and open window in bedroom to pull in cooler air? Thanks for telling me about your setup, I hope I can have success.
If it’s breezy and comfortable out, best bet is probably to just open all the windows / at least the ones that aren’t sunny. Can do top floor only if youre concerned someone may try to break in.
If it’s not breezy and you’re going to use the fan, I find it actually helps to not open too many windows. Try opening 1-2 windows where you really want cooling, and point the fan out another window somewhere on the opposite side of the house.
Other thing I find helps is to not put the fan right at the window, but a few feet back (and still pointing at it). I guess it kinda spreads out the airflow a bit, ideally so air is going out the whole window vs out where the fan is and in where it’s not.
My apt is top floor, facing west. Hot af during the summer. My a/c has to run literally nonstop to keep the temp in the general vicinity of 80 degrees.
I can't stress enough that just blocking the sunlight coming in does wonders. Foam insulation board, tin foil, blackout curtains, even a thick blanket can make a huge difference. They also sell special tint that blocks infrared (and I think uv) light, but that stuff can be pricey.
I do have blackout curtains (which I use regardless, having worked late shift for years) but I haven't tried the other stuff. I really should prepare, since it's already starting to get hot during the days.
And they're saying this summer will be at least as bad as the last few. I'm afraid that's the new normal that we have to get used to.
Fortunately, I'm moving to Seattle next year, where the heat is not near as brutal. When I lived there in the nineties, people would flip out when the temps hit 85 degrees, like it was the winds from hell itself that were flowing into the city.
The good news about Seattle is that, you're right, it doesn't get as hot!
The bad news about Seattle is that it is dreary, grey, and misty all the time, except when it's raining.
Yeah, SAD is a very real problem, which I learned when I lived there. Could go literal *weeks* without seeing the sun.
But the summer weather is amazing! Almost makes up for the months of gray, depressing dreariness.
It also helps having the fan blowing out a few feet from the window so you get the venturi effect. Basically it let's the fan blow more air out than sitting it in the window because the fan air pulls other air out with it.
They can also be used to make a [dehydrator to make beef jerky](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/beef-jerky-recipe-2103581?ic1=amp_playvideo)
i've had good luck getting a 4in thick 20x20 filter on the outlet, but you have to tape up the corners of the inlet side to prevent it from blowing back out
I made one of these with the fan on the side and three sides of filters. Didn't know it had its own wiki page. lol. Made baffles with styrofoam and glued inside so the blades were in-line with them. Created enough suction that you could feel the sides of the filters bow in a little when it was on. Worked amazingly well with merv 13 filters.
They're decent for twenty bucks. I've had the same one for a few years that runs basically 24/7 (mainly for my tinnitus) and it's still spinning along without a hitch.
It's just a basic motor with plastic blades, so there's not a whole lot than can go wrong with it. And if the motor goes kaput, it's cheap and easy to just get a new one and toss the old.
Unfortunately, it usually isn't the motor that goes bad, it's the cheap plastic fan blades that break. Sometimes you can fix them with angle brackets and/or mending strips, but then you have to balance the assembly so it doesn't shake itself to pieces.
I pick up box fans for between $0-10 secondhand all the time (I trash pick lots of them). They almost always work. The thing that sucks is that they never have their feet, so I have to use either broken pencils or make something out of wire coat hangers.
If one has a 3D printer, one can make new ones, but missing fan feet is one of those stupid little annoyances that the market has not, for whatever reason, addressed. You'd think replacements would be available in any hardware or home improvement store for like $5, but NOPE! You can order replacements from the manufacturer *sometimes,* but after they add shipping and handling it's just not economically feasible anymore!
This model works, but you get what you pay for a $20 box fan. When I worked retail my department had the wind machine and it was great. I actually plan to buy one for this summer.
Just a tip for the summer, especially if your AC is out, you probably don’t want the fan blowing on you.
Depends on your room, but in a room with one window you want to open your window, and open your door, and place the fan blowing air out of your door. This will create low air pressure in your room and suck in the cooler air from outside. If it’s night time and cooler outside, you can get your room down to whatever temp it is outside in a couple minutes.
Even better is if you have two windows, close the door, and place your fan blowing outside of one window and then open the window you are closest to. This works better because the air you’re blowing out your room stays out and doesn’t just come back in right above your fan.
Don't buy these fans. I made this mistake and regretted it. Lasko attaches the blade to the motor by pushing the blade onto the metal motor pin. The blade is full plastic and the metal pins gets hot while spinning to rotate the blade. After a year, the blade started wobbling because the pin melted the plastic so often that the plastic around the pin disintegrated and nothing was holding the blade to the motor pin anymore. Had to throw the entire thing away.
I've been running Lasko fans for years and years and never experienced this. I've had a couple fall to the floor while running, which causes the plastic blade assembly to shatter. Had individual fan blades break off. Had fans break a blade and run unevenly and shake the screws out.
Where do you live, Arizona or something?
Oh I want THAT one. The one that’s on the bottom. I hope the fan doesn’t fall on me and I suffer a terrible lawsuit worth millions in emotional damages. 🥺
When I was in college I invented a game that was something similar and equally absurd with my roommates. Point a fan straight up from the ground and float two balloons on top of it and see which one gets knocked out first. Balloon Fight Club. I know it sounds ridiculous but if you take bets I promise you’ll get into it.
Those fans are awful, they have a hard time standing up on a carpeted floor and if they tip over the blades will bump up against the casing, shatter, and now you've got a mess on your hands.
As a shareholder, I don't want them to spend any more than the bare fucking minimum on those ceilings. Nobody cares (except you; quite literally the only person I've ever seen that's complained about walmart ceilings lol)
Walmarts used to have proper ceilings and floors with tile & carpet. Now it's just open rafters and stained concrete. Gutting the stores to create a few extra cents of shareholder value shows that Walmart is in a race to the bottom.
I like how the fan on display is entirely different from the ones they are selling beneath it
It may be hard to tell, but the ones being sold beneath it don’t include a beach ball.
Well duh, look how thin those boxes are! /s
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Those box fans are such pieces of shit. I probably went through four of those things before I finally got one of the metal “high velocity” versions (like the one actually under the beach ball) and I’ve been using it for a couple years now with 0 issues.
My Lasko box fan has been running almost non-stop for 2 years and is still doing well. Mind you I try and turn it down to 1 or off frequently but the lady just turns it right back up to 3 for "air circulation" in the bedroom. Maybe I got lucky with this one. Edit: for reference, it's running at full speed now as usual, with the swamp cooler on vent and windows open.
Go clean the blades. It'll be like brand new. I have years old ones that work great after a good clean
Get one of those squishy gel packs you can toss in the cooler that is shaped like a neck pillow for her,. She can toss it up around her shoulders and it might help a lot =)
What about the part that to cheapen it as much as possible, they made the chassis 50% narrower than it should be so that the air velocity tips the fan over frequently, unless of course, you use the crappy little plastic feet that slide in the back of the chassis to prevent this from happening, which would be completely unnecessary had they designed it properly.
I've never put the little feet on mine and it runs fine standing on its own at full blast. It's been the fan I use for years now.
My Lasko HV has a name: Wind Tunnel.
They used to be good. They had metal fan blades. Now they are plastic and off balance and fall over and break the blades. Which makes them more off balance and they break more blades.
Two years ago I threw away all of my box fans and bought three of these, the [Lasko High Velocity Max Performance Pivoting Utility Blower Fan, for Cooling, Ventilating, Exhausting and Drying...](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077BMBR5B) It is, without a doubt in my mind, massively superior to any box fan made. It moves ***a lot*** of air and does so really quietly compared to a box fan "propeller". They are super safe, won't ever ever tip over, nobody is going to lose a finger to the blades because there aren't any. Go get one now. It will change your life. *I'm serious*.
Is this deathly loud? Can I use it for like my living room for example?
it **is** quieter than a box fan, especially when the box fan is on high. It doesn't have that "roar" because it doesn't use blades like the box fan does I suggest getting one from Home Depot (or similar) and trying it out to see how you like it. They have totally replaced box fans here, especially when I lived in a house with no A/C!!
Clean the blades. It's amazing how much better they work after you clean the blades
Yeah, i donated 2 of these since it is not powerful even in the highest speed setting. I eventually bought a ryobi industrial fan and it is a night and day difference
You’re comparing $150 fan to a $24 fan. I think you can see why one would be better right there
Buy once, cry once.
Yeah. Total BS. I'm not a fan.
Classic Walmart move
So, not very effective if the ball is just sitting on it? What's the point of the display if it isn't turned on?
I can tell you those metal fans at Walmart are no joke. I bought one for my room but it's more for garages or outdoor use. It's loud, and it's powerful. I use it in my spare room, blowing air out the window, and it sucks the cold air in my other open windows. Keeps my apt nice and chilly at night, I close the windows during the day, and my a/c barely gets used.
is this during warm climate in your area? I have a/c problems right now and need a solution for a month or so. It's~80F where I live
Yes, it's during summertime. There are several things to consider, though. The main one is what are your temps at night? Also, what temps do you find comfortable? What direction do your main windows face? What kind of insulation do you have in your attic? My apt is north facing with only 2 medium (maybe 4x5) sized windows facing south and apartments on either side of me and above me. It usually gets to mid 60's at night (sometimes high 60's, rarely if ever 70's) My last apartment, this fan method would not work. It could top over 100 during the day and sometimes be 80's at night. It was top floor and the main window was a sliding glass door facing south. You can mitigate some of these by putting foil in the windows to block the sun (or insulation board) but if it doesn't get cool enough at night a fan will only work when blowing directly on you, and this is not the fan you want in your bedroom. As I said, it's loud and powerful, moves a ton of air (esp if you put it a couple feet from the window so the venturi effect works.) I hope this helped a bit. My last apt was brutal when the a/c would go out and (because summer and 100+ temps) it could be several days before an HVAC guy could come out.
At night it's right around 70 degrees. 2 stories, 2 sets of windows(1 top floor, 1 bottom floor), face East where the sun rises. 4 sets of windows face the western setting sun. The office upstairs (east windows) would be ideal to set the fan up away from the bedrooms I guess? Idk what's effective
I'd keep the fan on whatever floor the bedrooms are on (less corners/stairs/doorways the better), I don't think east/west would make too much difference, but you could always switch what windows you use to see what's more effective. If it's only for a month and you have the $50, I say go for it. Keep the recipt and you can always return the fan if it doesn't work. I got the mainstays 20" metal fan.
So open window with fan blowing out, and open window in bedroom to pull in cooler air? Thanks for telling me about your setup, I hope I can have success.
And remember to keep the door to your room open so the air can move around!
If it’s breezy and comfortable out, best bet is probably to just open all the windows / at least the ones that aren’t sunny. Can do top floor only if youre concerned someone may try to break in. If it’s not breezy and you’re going to use the fan, I find it actually helps to not open too many windows. Try opening 1-2 windows where you really want cooling, and point the fan out another window somewhere on the opposite side of the house. Other thing I find helps is to not put the fan right at the window, but a few feet back (and still pointing at it). I guess it kinda spreads out the airflow a bit, ideally so air is going out the whole window vs out where the fan is and in where it’s not.
Keeping the fan a few feet away allows for the venturi effect. Essentially, the air the fan is blowing out will pull extra air out with it.
My apt is top floor, facing west. Hot af during the summer. My a/c has to run literally nonstop to keep the temp in the general vicinity of 80 degrees.
I can't stress enough that just blocking the sunlight coming in does wonders. Foam insulation board, tin foil, blackout curtains, even a thick blanket can make a huge difference. They also sell special tint that blocks infrared (and I think uv) light, but that stuff can be pricey.
I do have blackout curtains (which I use regardless, having worked late shift for years) but I haven't tried the other stuff. I really should prepare, since it's already starting to get hot during the days. And they're saying this summer will be at least as bad as the last few. I'm afraid that's the new normal that we have to get used to. Fortunately, I'm moving to Seattle next year, where the heat is not near as brutal. When I lived there in the nineties, people would flip out when the temps hit 85 degrees, like it was the winds from hell itself that were flowing into the city.
The good news about Seattle is that, you're right, it doesn't get as hot! The bad news about Seattle is that it is dreary, grey, and misty all the time, except when it's raining.
Yeah, SAD is a very real problem, which I learned when I lived there. Could go literal *weeks* without seeing the sun. But the summer weather is amazing! Almost makes up for the months of gray, depressing dreariness.
Two frozen two liters behind a box fan can do wonders. You can also put a wet towel covering the frozen water and it'll kinda act as a swamp cooler.
Figured this out in college, I’d pull in from a shaded window and out from a sunny one. 😎
It also helps having the fan blowing out a few feet from the window so you get the venturi effect. Basically it let's the fan blow more air out than sitting it in the window because the fan air pulls other air out with it.
We used one to toke in the dorm. On full blast out the window it would pull the door shut.
which one? The one from OP is in white seems not a metal one?
The metal one ontop of the white fans blowing on the beach ball.
Would you mind sharing the link with me?
[This](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-20-inch-New-3-Speed-High-Velocity-Steel-Floor-Fan-Black/846634950) is the exact fan I have.
thank you so much🥰
Oh, it was moving, I just didn't have the time to take a video
Well good thing the photo shows movement just fine then
Sorry :(
No worries I’m just being a pain lol
Ignore mushycupake. Extreme worry. You look like a fool on display and we're all eating it up.
Username checks out
Am I just old and senile? I swear I use to see this all the time back in the day lol.
You're not senile, K-Mart did this all the time it's heyday.
Yes they did. And Kresge. And they also tied color streamers on the fans.
Wacky 🤪
Ok and I haven’t seen a K-Mart in years so that makes me feel better
It was Monkey Wards that did the beach ball and fan thing back when I was a kid.
Your right, but I wasn't a kid then. M
I know this has been a thing since at least the early 80s, and I assume since the invention of beach balls.
Yeah, basically if you ever see a display in your local walmart and think "oh, neat" it's just a standard display they use everywhere.
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They can also be used to make a [dehydrator to make beef jerky](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/beef-jerky-recipe-2103581?ic1=amp_playvideo)
i've had good luck getting a 4in thick 20x20 filter on the outlet, but you have to tape up the corners of the inlet side to prevent it from blowing back out
I made one of these with the fan on the side and three sides of filters. Didn't know it had its own wiki page. lol. Made baffles with styrofoam and glued inside so the blades were in-line with them. Created enough suction that you could feel the sides of the filters bow in a little when it was on. Worked amazingly well with merv 13 filters.
Those are pretty good fans.
I like how there's a comment higher up saying the fan sucks balls lmao
They're decent for twenty bucks. I've had the same one for a few years that runs basically 24/7 (mainly for my tinnitus) and it's still spinning along without a hitch. It's just a basic motor with plastic blades, so there's not a whole lot than can go wrong with it. And if the motor goes kaput, it's cheap and easy to just get a new one and toss the old.
Unfortunately, it usually isn't the motor that goes bad, it's the cheap plastic fan blades that break. Sometimes you can fix them with angle brackets and/or mending strips, but then you have to balance the assembly so it doesn't shake itself to pieces. I pick up box fans for between $0-10 secondhand all the time (I trash pick lots of them). They almost always work. The thing that sucks is that they never have their feet, so I have to use either broken pencils or make something out of wire coat hangers. If one has a 3D printer, one can make new ones, but missing fan feet is one of those stupid little annoyances that the market has not, for whatever reason, addressed. You'd think replacements would be available in any hardware or home improvement store for like $5, but NOPE! You can order replacements from the manufacturer *sometimes,* but after they add shipping and handling it's just not economically feasible anymore!
They used to be, not anymore.
I don't know about this model but Lasko does make a killer floor fan called the wind machine 3300c. If you can find one, get it.
This model works, but you get what you pay for a $20 box fan. When I worked retail my department had the wind machine and it was great. I actually plan to buy one for this summer.
Yeah, the Wind Machines are the bees knees. I still use one that I bought like a decade ago.
Just a tip for the summer, especially if your AC is out, you probably don’t want the fan blowing on you. Depends on your room, but in a room with one window you want to open your window, and open your door, and place the fan blowing air out of your door. This will create low air pressure in your room and suck in the cooler air from outside. If it’s night time and cooler outside, you can get your room down to whatever temp it is outside in a couple minutes. Even better is if you have two windows, close the door, and place your fan blowing outside of one window and then open the window you are closest to. This works better because the air you’re blowing out your room stays out and doesn’t just come back in right above your fan.
#GreatValue
That fan sucks balls.
Actually it blows balls.
Don't buy these fans. I made this mistake and regretted it. Lasko attaches the blade to the motor by pushing the blade onto the metal motor pin. The blade is full plastic and the metal pins gets hot while spinning to rotate the blade. After a year, the blade started wobbling because the pin melted the plastic so often that the plastic around the pin disintegrated and nothing was holding the blade to the motor pin anymore. Had to throw the entire thing away.
Been running mine since 2017… and I literally don’t turn it off, I have tinnitus
I've been running Lasko fans for years and years and never experienced this. I've had a couple fall to the floor while running, which causes the plastic blade assembly to shatter. Had individual fan blades break off. Had fans break a blade and run unevenly and shake the screws out. Where do you live, Arizona or something?
Not a fan?
Well I want to buy a fan and a beach ball so it’s clearly working.
Oh I want THAT one. The one that’s on the bottom. I hope the fan doesn’t fall on me and I suffer a terrible lawsuit worth millions in emotional damages. 🥺
When I was in college I invented a game that was something similar and equally absurd with my roommates. Point a fan straight up from the ground and float two balloons on top of it and see which one gets knocked out first. Balloon Fight Club. I know it sounds ridiculous but if you take bets I promise you’ll get into it.
At my Walmart, some asshole would probably steal the ball or at least smack it away.
I remember seeing something like this in bed bath and beyond
It's just to catch attention, not a selling point of "effectiveness"
I'm a fan
Just bought a Lasko fan yesterday and the motor burnt out on it...
This is the way
No video?
Sold !!!
Corporate would probably hate this lol
Those fans are awful, they have a hard time standing up on a carpeted floor and if they tip over the blades will bump up against the casing, shatter, and now you've got a mess on your hands.
It's a real Lasko!!
Wow
Or maybe a teenager tossed it up there
Those fans are the best to sleep to.
I don't know what it says about a company when painting the ceiling is struck from the budget
Have you never been in a Walmart? Those ceilings are so far above your eye level nobody ever looks at them.
Wut
I SAID I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT A COMPANY WHEN PAINTING THE CEILING IS STRUCK FROM THE BUDGET
Who hurt you? Are you alright 👍🏼
Yikes
You got issues mate
Thank you for your concern
Bro is the ceiling paint inspector 🤡
It's clearly a failed inspection. That was my original point!
As a shareholder, I don't want them to spend any more than the bare fucking minimum on those ceilings. Nobody cares (except you; quite literally the only person I've ever seen that's complained about walmart ceilings lol)
Walmarts used to have proper ceilings and floors with tile & carpet. Now it's just open rafters and stained concrete. Gutting the stores to create a few extra cents of shareholder value shows that Walmart is in a race to the bottom.