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So what's the deal with running your ceiling fans in reverse during heating season?
I get that warm air rises, and I get the value of trying to circulate it back down to the floor where the people are (especially with, say, a vaulted ceiling). But for the life of me I don't understand why it makes a difference what direction the fan is running.
It seems to me that either way the fan rotates it will set up a perfectly useful convective loop from ceiling to floor. I don't get why 'they' say to run it in reverse during Winter.
What do you think? It's early; have some coffee and get back to me :grin:
I get that warm air rises, and I get the value of trying to circulate it back down to the floor where the people are (especially with, say, a vaulted ceiling). But for the life of me I don't understand why it makes a difference what direction the fan is running.
It seems to me that either way the fan rotates it will set up a perfectly useful convective loop from ceiling to floor. I don't get why 'they' say to run it in reverse during Winter.
What do you think? It's early; have some coffee and get back to me :grin: