2007-01-26 15:08:11 · 12 answers · asked by d s 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
It should turn so to push air downward, toward the floor. As you know, heat rises, and this helps keep you warmer.
2007-01-26 15:13:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the winter time, I have all five fans slowly turning backward, pulling the air upward toward the ceiling. It moves the air up and across the ceiling and down the close walls. Try to see it in a circular pattern, with the heat being pushed across the ceiling and down the walls. This also helps keep the condensation off the windows. You won't feel much of an air movement this way so it's not uncomfortable either.
2007-01-26 21:46:26 · answer #2 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clock wise, counter-clockwise, right, left, up, down... Pretty confusing, isn't it? Does it really have to be? -Nope! Most fans aren't reversible anyway. If yours is, then actually, either direction will work fine. If it's blowing downward, and the draft bothers you or makes papers fly all over, then reverse it. When it blows downward, it's pushing the warmer air down from the ceiling. But when it's blowing upward, it's pulling cooler air up. The warm air has to go someplace when the cool air comes up, so it gets pushed over to the walls and down. Either way, the air is going to circulate. So either up or down is a correct answer, and the rotation of the fan or tilt of the blades is all secondary technical stuff. All that really matters is that the warm and cool air circulate and mix. And this applies equally in summer or winter.
2007-01-26 17:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by BuddyL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fan in the winter months should move the air upward toward the ceiling. This will help move the warm air around and even out the warm air throughout the room without creating a downward draft which could prove to be chilling to the skin.
2007-01-26 15:39:55 · answer #4 · answered by MT C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After researching this very question for two week ends. I found it was much more comfortable to have the fan push the air toward the ceiling. That way seems to eliminate uncomfortable draft. Also keeps the room at a more even temperature.
2007-01-26 16:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by George O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MT C and George O are correct, the fan just mixes the air. In the process it provides airflow across your body in the summer months and this makes you more comfortable. Reversing it to blow upwards prevents the drafty feel. Also consider the location of the center of the bed in relation of the center of the fan.
2007-01-26 16:42:10 · answer #6 · answered by D.B. Cooper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the leading edge of the blade pointed toward the ceiling turning counter clockwise pushes the air down hope this helps!!
2007-01-26 16:49:21 · answer #7 · answered by towolves1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking up at the fan, the blades should be spinning clockwise.
2007-01-26 15:21:35 · answer #8 · answered by crewcap2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
left cools the room
right pushes the hot air down
so if you want the heat to stay down it should go right â¥
2007-01-26 15:15:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
be very, VERY careful, if youre in the northern hemisphere it has to turn clockwise!
2007-01-26 15:13:24 · answer #10 · answered by JulyBeetle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋