Poor man’s AC…
My employer transferred me to Buffalo NY one spring. I leased a 3 bedroom ranch w/full basement.
That summer a heatwave hit Buffalo. No one in Buffalo had air-conditioning. I was working long hours 70/80 hrs per week.
I came home one night and my house was cooking, almost 100 degrees inside. I dragged a mattress down to the nice cool basement and slept there.
The next day I had an idea…
The house was cooking again when I got home.
I checked that the furnace fan motor ran on 110v. I cut the electrical cord to the motor and spliced on an extension cord and left off the fan cover plate. I pulled out the return ducting air filter and stuck in a piece of card board the same size.
I plugged in the fan motor… it began to blow 65-degree air from the basement to the upstairs through the heat ducting.
Within an hour the upstairs was a comfy 70 degrees. I could only run my poor mans AC 3 nights before the basement heated up… had to suffer one night before running it again.
There you go, poor mans AC... I just had to convert it back before winter!