2007-12-23 05:27:56 · 13 answers · asked by TT 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
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2007-12-23 10:25:54 · answer #1 · answered by Fancy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your ceiling fan is CIRCULATING the air in your room. If the air is circulating, then you are equalizing the temperature throughout the room. Therefore, direction of the fan is going to make very little difference.
Provided that the fan is not hugging the ceiling, it really shouldnt matter which way you turn the fan. A ceiling hugging fan on a flat ceiling is not too efficient.
If you pull air up and blow it at the ceiling, then you will displace that air and force air downward out near the edges of the room.
If you push air downward with the fan, then there will be a upward counter flow out near the edges of the room.
That said, in my two story sunroom with a steep vaulted ceiling, I run the fan on a medium or high speed, forcing the air downward. Warmer air will find it's way to the highest point, so forcing that air down in the center of the room near the highest point makes sense to me.
I know this works well as the lower level remains as warm as the upper balcony. Even the tiles on the lower level are warm thanks to that fan.
The same is pretty much true for the cooling season, although, if a direct flow of air on you makes you more comfortable when in the room, then choose the direction that gives you the desired effect, air on you or air not on you.
Should be a breeze. :)
j.
2007-12-23 06:08:10 · answer #2 · answered by John 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is true that heat rises and cold settles to the ground. If there were no ceiling fan then when the heat is on, the top of the room would be hot and the bottom of the room will be cold.
Ceiling fans are used to keep the room more comfortable. You would run the fan blowing up when you are heating so that it does not create a draft blowing on you. It forces the air up and then down the walls heating the drafts from the windows. When you are cooling you force the hot air down to be cooled by the cold air sitting on the floor..
2007-12-23 07:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by unpop5 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow! Lots of mixed answers with this question. John expalins it very well. I started to second guess myself while reading some of these answers so I went online and looked up some celing fan manuals from different manufacurers and all of the manuals state to run the fan clockwise in the winter to blow the air towards the ceiling and counter-clockwise in the summer to blow the air down and that it is really a personal choice since you will be circulating the air to equalize the room temp in either direction.
2007-12-23 06:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Will chip in to all the correct answers so far, but for this reason. If you turn the fan on for down directions of the warmer air, do you really want that type of air circulation hitting you while you sit in front of your favorite tv program? That air movement will actually cool you off instead of providing heat. So, direct the fan upward/. That pulls the cooler air up, but at the same time forces the warm air which has risen to the walls, thereby directing it back down without creating a draft.
2007-12-23 07:50:42 · answer #5 · answered by ozarks bum 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There should be a switch that will reverse the rotation of the fan from either a clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation ; you want the ceiling fan to push air currents upward against the ceiling thus taking warm air which rises upward to be drawn downwards toward the floor .
2007-12-23 05:39:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our house is unusual in that our heat actually comes FROM the ceiling ( heat pump is in the attic - not our idea!), and tends to stay up there, so we use a ceiling fan to pull the hot air down. It then warms the colder air at the bottom. If anyone has a good comment on this please email me!
2007-12-23 19:23:53 · answer #7 · answered by Cassie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ceiling fan should rotate counter-clockwise so the warm air is taken upwards and then blown back down.
2007-12-23 05:38:27 · answer #8 · answered by CJK 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lets think this through....Heat rises...so in the winter you want the ceiling fan to blow the heat from the ceiling downward....in the summer cool is lower...so you want to pull the air from the floor upwards to cool the room down.
2007-12-23 05:37:33 · answer #9 · answered by gisman22 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ceiling fans should run on low speed turned towards the ceiling, in the heating season.
2007-12-23 05:33:18 · answer #10 · answered by Sonny 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Reverse, to pull the air up the middle and down the sides of the room, this also clears the windows of condensation.
2007-12-23 22:01:22 · answer #11 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋