Ventilation, and How to Secure it.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 318, 21 November 1888, Page 2

Ventilation, and How to Secure it.

In ventilating — say a bedroom —by moans of the window, what you principally want is an upward blowing current. Well, there are several methods of securing this without danger of a draught :—l.: — 1. Holes may bo bored in the lower part of the upper sash of the window, admitting 1 the outside air. 2. Right across one foot of the lower sash, but attached to the immovable frame of the window, may be hung or tricked a piece of strong 1 Willesden paper — prettily painted with flowers and birds if you please. The window may then be raised to the extent of the breadth of this paper, and the air rushes upwards between the two sashes. 3. The same effect is got from simply having a board about six inches wide and the exret size of the sash's breadth. Use this to hold the window up. 4. The same board may have two bent or el^ow tubes in it, opening upwards and into the room, so that the air coming through does not blow directly in. The inside opening may be protected by valves, and thus the amount of incoming current can be regulated. ■We thus get a circulating 1 movement of the air, as, the window being raised, there is an opening between the sashes. 5. In summer a frame half as big as the lower sash may be made of perforated zinc or wire gauze and placed in so as to keep the window up. There is no draught ; and, if kept in position all night, then, as a rule, the inmate will enjo}' refreshing sleep. 6. In addition to these plans, the door of every bedroom should possess at the top thereof a ventilating panel, the simplest of all being that formed of wire gauze. — A Family Doctor in Oassell's Family Magazine.

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