What is the point to switching the ceiling fan direction from winter to summer setting?
Question:What is the benefits - does it really make a difference??
Answers:
Because warm air rises, reversing the direction of the fan causes the flow of warm air to recirculate by pulling it up to the ceiling and forcing it back out and down. In summer, you move the cool air by forcing it down and around the room; this movement keeps you cooler. Both ideas are meant to help your heating/cooling system work less and be more efficient.
Push the heat back toward the floor instead of drawing it away. Makes a difference in some rooms
Hot air rises cold air falls.Didn't you learn this on school?
move the air up in the winter. this will circulate warm air around the room without putting a breeze on you and making it feel cooler. move the air down in the summer so you do get the breeze.
This is a personal opinion. It is a fact that hot air rises and cool air drops. In the summer, you are looking for cooler air. This would mean that you need to lift the cooler air up to circulate it and let it "fall" back down. In the winter, the warmer air rises above you so you want to bring it back down. I set my fans to pull the cooler air up in the summer by setting the blade direction the same as the lowest side of the blades. This pulls it up. Just the opposite in the winter. If you have your fans running at full speed, you will feel a breeze in either direction.
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