Should ceiling blade rotation be changed from winter and summer?

Answer 1

yes, down in the summer up in the winter. heat rises

Answer 2

Ceiling Fan Direction
The benefits for running the ceiling fan either direction as opposed to the other are only marginal. Either way, the ceiling fan is still doing it's job: Circulating air and evening the temperature difference between the air at floor and ceiling levels.

Here is other advice that's been contributed:


Put your hand close to the blades or stand directly under the fan, but don't touch the fan. If you feel a breeze, that is the way for the summer.

Let me simplify. While circulating the air is fine, in the summer, you want the fan to blow air downwards (to create a breeze) and in the winter fans should blow upwards so that your body is not exposed to a direct breeze (can make things chillier).

The proper answer which has been answered a couple of times here but for better understanding is: You want a downward breeze in the summer so that you feel the cool air blowing down on you when you stand od sit beneath the fan. This works best when used in conjunction with an air conditioner, though sometimes it is enough to just feel the breeze on your skin. In the winter you want the fan to blow upward so as to redistribute the hot air which collects at the ceiling area, so what you would see if you could is air rising upward at the fan and then blowing all the hot air away from the fan along the ceiling and then downward at the walls, this creates an envelope of warm air. a slow speed is all that is required for this to work because you only need to move the air. This takes the Hot air from above and then moves it downward giving you a warm comfort area.

Answer 3

NO,NO,NO. did I say NO!!!!

Some answers are so simple and yet we miss them.

Never run your ceiling fan in the summer if you have a/c. If it is hot at the ceiling, why would you want to push that hot air down on you where it is cool. Why would you want to mix that hot air with the cool air and come up with pee warm air right about eye level when you are sitting in your recliner.

a/c is a human comfort product not meant to keep your ceiling cool. What is the point of that? Why would you want to put your recliner on the ceiling? Leave that hot air alone, it will make it just fine on the ceiling away from you.

Cold air settles at the floor first and then builds up. If you are hot, sit on the floor. I have been in homes where the temperature difference between the floor and the ceiling might be as much as 15 degrees with the a/c on.

If you want a fan to move air, use a floor fan to move that cool air on the floor.

Winter time - yes run the fan and it makes little difference which direction you run it. It will help bring some of that hot air down from the ceiling to where you need it, on you.

Answer 4

Yes it should. When your AC is on it sends out cold air that drops while hot air rises. You need to pull the cool air up from the floor to cool the air up at your ceiling. During th winter you want it to blow downward since you want the heat to come down and warm the floor area.
Since we had to remove our carpeting last fall the floors are much colder last winter. I stood under the fan and it was blowing warm air down and that part of the floor was warmer that the rest of the floor

Answer 5

Yes, if you reverse the blade rotation during winter months, warm air is forced downward, which helps lower heating bills.

Answer 6

Yes, they should. When the blades spin clockwise, it brings the cool air down, but counter-clockwise would bring the cool air up, which is what you want in winter

Answer 7

yes. in the winter reverse them so it pushes the hot air down.

Answer 8

Heat travels up, and cold goes down. Your answer is "Yes"==so the air is more evenly "blended".

Answer 9

Yes, they should be reversed for winter.

Answer 10

because heat rises