I have read somewhere that if you put the ceiling fans opposite(counterclockwise) in winter that it will help the heating bills and does not effect your electricity too much. He says that is wrong. What is the correct way?
2006-12-10 03:17:37 · 17 answers · asked by Cherie B 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Yes they help. The fan draws warm air from the center of the room and push the heated celling air down the walls, This helps heat the outside walls and puts the warm back on the floor.Keeping this air moving will very much with the heat bills and aren't that much in elect bill change . I use mine and don't notice any cold spots in the house where I did before.
2006-12-10 03:34:31 · answer #1 · answered by Les Gramps 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should run the fans blowing the air toward the ceiling in the winter. The warmer air is at the ceiling and the upward direction would force the heat outward toward the walls and down. This would disseminate the air equally in all directions rather than all down. It also pulls the cool air upward away from you. In the summer, the fans should be run as to push the air down. I know, the heat is up there, but the cooling effect is received by the body with the cool air blowing on you.
2016-05-23 02:06:45 · answer #2 · answered by MaryBeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are completely correct. Remember in school when you learned that heat rises. Well, when a ceiling fan is running with the air flowing downward, it will fan the hot air down to your level, creating the heater to not kick on as much trying to fill the entire room from the ceiling down to the floor.
Now, I never reverse the fan in the summer time properly. I do like my breeze. Oh well.
2006-12-10 03:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by Jay S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the winter time you need your ceiling fan pushing the air down. Why? Heat rise to the top always. We use ours year around. It works.
2006-12-10 15:11:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
heat rises and running a ceiling fan in winter helps push the warm air back down.
2006-12-10 03:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by bobbie v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're right. There's usually a little switch on ceiling fans and in the winter it needs to be switched in the up posistion in order to help circulate the heat in your house. Your husband just doesn't want to admit that you're right and he's wrong.
2006-12-10 03:25:27 · answer #6 · answered by Heather <33 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the location of the fan. Remeber that cold air sinks. In a ranch style or 1 story where the area above ceiling fan is open to the attic air, the cold attic air will sink through the opening onto the fan, making the fan cold. In this scenario, the fan will circulate cold air when turned on.
When you turn on the fan it circulates all the air in the room including the cold air near the floor. If that cold air reaches the thermistat and kicks on the heat...
I guess it depends who you listen to, the fan salesman, the gas or electric company, they all want you to spend more.
Does it really feel warmer when you turn on the fan?
I think your husband is right.
2006-12-10 03:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by watty 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is true that most ceiling fans have a summer/ winter switch but in practice the draft created by the fan out-weighs any benefit that the fan produces shifting heat from the ceiling
2006-12-10 06:01:10 · answer #8 · answered by Terence K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are correct! Heat rises so put the fan in reverse and let it push the warm air down.
2006-12-10 03:44:13 · answer #9 · answered by redbass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct. Hot air rises and running the fans in reverse pushes the accumulated hot air down where it is felt by the room's inhabitants. Make sure the fans are running on low though.
2006-12-10 03:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋