Gobsmacked woman discovers fan hack – and we’ve been using them wrong all our lives

After spotting a video online to prove how we’re all using fans in the bedroom wrong, a woman took things into her own hands and now her room is the ‘coolest it’s ever been’

Brits are continuing to suffer amid the UK’s current scorching temperatures and ongoing heatwave. Something we all need right now is a decent fan – but have we all been using them completely wrong?

One woman has been left gobsmacked after discovering she was placing her fan the wrong way round her entire life.Sufferers of sleepless nights amid boiling temperatures are in luck as a TikToker shared how they’ve been using fans incorrectly for 28 years – despite thinking there was only one way to use it.

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To put it short – we’ve been all using fans the completely opposite way to which we should – the completely wrong direction in fact.

Sharing the revelation to popular social media app TikTok, she shared how the hack had changed the game – and how the room is now the “coolest it’s ever been”.

“How did it take me 28 years to know this?!” She captioned the post.

She explained: “Obviously the weather in the UK at the moment is absolutely scorching

“We’re in a new build and it’s quite a small house, so it retains heat so well and it’s absolutely boiling every night.”

She continued: “I’ve been having a fan on and we’ve been waking up sniffing and we’ve got a cold – and I’m guessing that’s from having a fan on all night.

“I saw someone’s TikTok to say that’s not how fans are used in bedrooms.

“I’m 28 years old – and please someone tell me that I’m not the only one who didn’t know this.

“Apparently you’re meant to have the fan facing a window with the windows open – and then you turn the fan on and it basically sucks all of the warm air out of the room outside.

“And then at night when it’s cool turn it to other way around and it pulls to cool fresh night air in.

“I’ve just had it on for 15 minutes and my room is probably the coolest it has ever been.

“Did anyone else know this or was it just me being absolutely stupid?”

Relating to her shock, viewers rushed to the comment section to share their mirrored shock for the hack, which many were in disbelief about.

A user penned: “I need to try this. I have never known this and I am 33.”

“42 and still learning,” another wrote:

A third added: “Nope .. I’m 37 and never knew this.”

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