When looking at a cieling fan the blades will move either left to right or right to left. There is a correct direction for summer or winter.
2007-11-20 12:02:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
The blades on your ceiling fan should be going clock-wise to "suck" up the heat and recirculate it.
In the summertime, the blades go counter clock-wise to bring the cool air down.
2007-11-20 12:08:54 · answer #1 · answered by Resident Insomniac 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are ceiling fans that have blades in opposite directions..so neiother clockwise nor counterclockwise can be correct without seeing the fan..I have seen many of these in this fashion..the answer can be BOTH..stand under the fan..turn it on full speed...whichever direction blows the most air downword is your summer setting for ac..and the one that blows the least down is for winter ..heat...This next paragraph is copied and pasted from Wikipedia..Notice how it says (typically) on summer and winter use? this is because ..some..but very few are designed to work the opposite..So there is no actual correct answer untill you try the fan as mentioned above...
Uses
Most ceiling fans can be used in two different ways; that is, most fans have a mechanism, commonly an electrical switch, for reversing the direction in which the blades rotate.
In summer, when the fan's direction of rotation is set so that air is blown downward (typically counter-clockwise, when standing under the fan and looking upwards), the breeze created by a ceiling fan speeds the evaporation of sweat on human skin, which is experienced as a cooling effect.
In winter, buildings in colder climates are usually heated. Air naturally stratifies--that is, warmer air rises to the ceiling while cooler air sinks to the floor. A ceiling fan, with its direction of rotation set so that air is drawn upward (typically clockwise), takes cool air from lower levels in the room and pushes it upward towards the ceiling. The warm air, which had naturally risen to the ceiling, is forced out of the way of the incoming cool air; it travels along the ceiling and down the walls, to lower levels where people in the room can feel it; this reverse rotation has the added advantages of not creating the wind-chill effect of the summer operation scheme, and of heating the air slightly by forcing it along the entire surface area of the ceiling which is typically hot due to risen hot air trapped on the other side in the attic.
2007-11-21 12:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by pcbeachrat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fan should definitely blow downwards! We went into a warehouse with a 20 ft high ceiling that had just been rewired. The electricians doing the work forgot to wire the existing ceiling fans. Even though the thermostat was turned to the highest temp. It was cold in the warehouse.! We (electricians) reconnected the ceiling fans making sure it blew the warm (hot) air downwards within a 1/2 hour the warehouse was warm enough to turn the thermostat down. This was during a winter day in Ontario, Canada.
2016-05-24 09:25:26 · answer #3 · answered by madeleine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I run my fan blowing down both winter and summer and it works fine. If it blows up it will just coat your ceiling with dust!
It is more important to circulate the air than the direction.
2007-11-21 01:13:20 · answer #4 · answered by steve h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In winter time, all your heat will naturally rise. You want to get that heat circulating through you house, so you want the ceiling fan to go in the direction where you can feel it blowing down. In the summer it is the opposite, as you want the heat to be pulled up, as the cooler air will be turning warmer. This circulates the air in the room to continually allow the cool air to flow. Hope this helps.
2007-11-20 12:10:58 · answer #5 · answered by Kiker 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Standing directly under the fan looking up, the fan should be spinning in the clockwise direction in the winter.
2007-11-20 12:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by timwlewis77 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In winter the air should flow up (You have to stand near a wall to feel it). In summer the air should flow down (You should feel it directly under the fan).
2007-11-20 12:07:07 · answer #7 · answered by Kurtis G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
summer blows in the downward direction and winter it's the reverse taking warm ceiling air and bringing it from the ceiling down
2007-11-20 12:09:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here it is, Heat rises and cold falls. In the winter time your heat will rise towards the ceiling so you want the fan to blow it downwards. In the summer the cool air will tend to lay low close to the floor so you want your fan to pull the cool air upwards...
2007-11-20 13:36:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fan blades spin from left to right in the summertime.
They spin right to left in the wintertime.
2007-11-20 12:07:50 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs. Mustang 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋