i posted a question a day ago regarding the directions fans should be blowing to dispers heat through a house, i only have one space heater and its in the middle of the room, i failed to mention that the fans are ceiling fans not fans on the ground, so which way should they be blowing and what about fans in the other rooms without the heater
2007-01-11 13:42:42 · 6 answers · asked by lisa 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
my ceiling fan gos clock wise to make it cool and counter clock wise to make it warmer
2007-01-11 13:51:32 · answer #1 · answered by sunflowercook 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have found myself with the same heating cooling situation.
Turn the fan in the room with the heat source on low so that it blows toward the ceiling (clockwise). This pulls the cool air on the floor up to the ceiling forcing the warm air down. Making the fan go the other way will circulate the air just the same but it creates a wind chill or draft affect. A fan has a strange tendency to try to make things room temperature. Air circulating directly over an object (your body) will try to reach "room temperature" faster than it will in still air or air that is indirectly circulating. For example If you have a 70 degree room and set one cup of coffee in front of a fan and another away from the fan, the coffee in front of the fan will reach seventy before the other. The same thing is true for Ice tea, or a persons body.
So the point is to circulate air without being in the draft of a fan.
As for the other rooms I suggest a small box fan either hanging at the top of the door opening blowing in, or sitting on the floor blowing out. Again the Idea is to circulate the air with out being in the breeze of the fan.
This kept me fairly comfortable one cold winter.
2007-01-11 22:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the winter time have the fans blowing downward.
Heat rises, so blowing the heat down from the ceiling will disperse it throughout the room.
In the summer, have the fan blowing the opposite direction, so that the cooler air near the floor will be drawn up into the room.
2007-01-11 22:20:36 · answer #3 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For maximum energy savings, during hot weather, run it counterclockwise which propels the air downward and creates a cooling breeze... During the cold weather run it clockwise and operate it only at a slow speed. Because hot air rises there will be an upward draft created by the fan pushing the warm air - which is hovering near the ceiling - throughout the room
2007-01-11 22:11:37 · answer #4 · answered by Brokn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A celling fan on low blowing air down will circulate the rising warm air throughout a room. I am unsure about separate rooms.
2007-01-11 21:53:59 · answer #5 · answered by theonlybojack 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the general rule for ceiling fans are : in the summer the air is blown down ,in the winter it is pulled up to circulate the heat or hot air. so when the fan is mounted it should be turning in a anti clockwise direction
2007-01-11 22:47:20 · answer #6 · answered by gregory b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋