What is the direction of a ceiling fan in the winter to bring heat down from the ceiling?

Question

I hear "counter clock-wise." Is that from the bottom looking up? Are the blades facing down or up?

Answer 1

You actually want to push the air up. That way you circulate the warm air without having to feel a cool draft. Look up at the fan, the blades need to rotate with the lower edges going forward, this will "scoop" the air up and around. Good luck...

Answer 2

There is only one way I can answer this for you ....because it may differ from fan to fan. When you look at a fan blade, it sits crooked or ******, one side is HIGHER that the other. There is a switch on the fan that will let you change the direction of rotation. One direction and the higher side of the blade is the leading edge. This is pushing air down (for summer)The other direction and the lower side of the blade is the leading edge then the fan is pulling air for lower levels and mixing it with hot air at the ceiling (for winter)
However if you use a ceiling fan it winter its best to use the low setting only.

Hope this helped

Answer 3

Ceiling fan manufacturers recomend that you move the air upward when you want the room to feel warmer, and down when you want the room to feel cooler. When you blow the air up you are aiding the naturally occuring convection current that causes warm air to rise, displacing slightly cooler air which then flows down the walls. The key here is that you want the air to flow down the walls when you want the room to feel warmer. When the air is blowing down from the ceiling fan you experience a "windchill effect" that makes things seem cooler. On my ceiling fan, if you look up into the spinning blades they spin clockwise to blow the air up, so they would appear to spin counter-clockwise if you were looking down on them. The way I remember the direction I want is this:
\ = blade
-> <- = direction
\ -> is used to make the room feel warmer
<- \ is used to make the room feel cooler
if you view the blades from the end they should move so that the trailing edge of the blade is toward the surface that you want to blow the air toward.

Answer 4

You want to pull the warm air down. Stand directly under the fan. If you feel a breeze then it is blowing down as required. If not reverse the fan direction.

Answer 5

You want the air to be blowing upward toward the ceiling. Read----nathaneal's answer.---------. Air going up.

Answer 6

you want the fan blowing up toward your cealing

Answer 7

heat rises so set the fan to blow the air down not up..

Answer 8

the opposite of how you had it set in the summer