I have a ceiling fan 17 feet high. Should it be pushing warm air down or pushing warm air up in the winter?

Question

The intent is to distribute the warm air that is close to the ceiling, to the rest of the room. Most stuff I read says to push the warm air up, but I'm wondering because it's so high up, should I push the warm air down (on the slow setting) instead.

Answer 1

Setting should be pushing up in winter (so it gets the warm air off the ceiling)
And down in the summer... to cool you off.
It's as true as lefty loosy, righty tighty.
I just saw that many other answer are confusing and if majority rules than it will be wrong.
When I forgot to switch the settings for the summer, my husband worked and wanted to cool off and had the fan on high and was not getting cooler. Duh, it was blowing up. Making him warmer because heat rises and it was blowing the hot air down.
Logic is: heat rises.. so in winter, blow up to get the heat off the ceiling and curculate it llower. In Summer, blow down to cool you off.

Answer 2

Push the warm air down in the winter, In the summer you want to push the hot air up

Answer 3

Pushing warm air down if its cold of coarse . Or pushing warm air up if its warm .It depends on the climate realy if its cold or warm.

Answer 4

Put the warm air where you want it to be. In other words you're right, push it down.

Answer 5

warm air rises.pushing the warm down in winter and drawing the cool up in summer is what your shooting for

Answer 6

Wintertime, warm air down. Summertime, warm air up. At least that is how we do it in Florida.

Answer 7

the idea is that when it is hot the fan sucks the heat air up and the cold air follows in its place from below ,
i suppose that in the winter you could reverse this ,because the hot air rises.