Ceiling Fan Direction

What direction should your ceiling fan spin in the winter vs. the summer? Here are the answers. For more information, visit http://www.pro-handyman.com. Please "Subscribe" and comment below!

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[prohandymanlv]

Glad to help!

[prohandymanlv]

The unit will is located where the ceiling fan mounts to the ceiling. You will need to remove the cover and you can access it there. It tucks in the bracket that holds the fan to the box in the ceiing. Try replacing the battery in the remote first, and if that doesn't work you may be faced with replacing the remote unit. It should cost around $25.00 from any home center.

[prohandymanlv]

Of course hot air rises and cold air falls. Ceiling fans do not warm or cool the air, they simply move the air. The point here that you are not addressing is the wind chill factor. If you have a large volume of air blowing on you, you will feel cooler. This is wind chill at work. For the same reason you would not, as you suggest, want fast blowing air on you in the winter as you would feel cooler.

[iluupoohbear97]

Thats a Craftmade CXL.

[kuklaguera]

Thanks, I was confused for the exact reason you state early in the video. From what orientation am I determining direction? I have a high ceiling, poor roof insulation, wall heater, so really need to push the warm air back down in winter. This clearly explains it!

[drfunk13]

Thanks man!

[steveho75]

I have a remote celling fan where is the switch? and My rev or foward switch does not work on the remote when i press it.

Steve

[Rlnthndr]

@TheCouxterbug thats sortof right. I always have my fans on forward even in the winter. I love the breeze it gives me. But my vents are on the ceiling so its actually pumping both the cold air and in the winter, the warm air down.

But even when the vents are on the floor. Your going to feel cooler having air blown on you. Think about it, a breeze in 100 degree temps feels pretty good right. Well a ceiling fan does the same thing on the inside.

But he is absolutely right for normal conditions

[slippybippy]

this guy is right an wrong. If you have an air conditioner on in the summer, you want the blades rotoating counter-clockwise, so it will draw the cold air upwarrds, therefore cooling the room quicker. If you didn't have AC, then of course, the blades should rotate clockwise to feel the air movement. Nothing worse than having your AC on, and the blades clockwise, forcing down hot air on you. In Winter, blades clockwise, forcing down the rising heat from the ceiling area.

[TheCouxterbug]

WRONG! Hot Air Rises and Cool air Falls... so if you have the blades blowing DOWN in the summertime, then all you are doing is continually blowing that HOT AIR back down, and it continues to RISE, cuz thats what HOT air does.... SO, the room is always going to feel hotter, especially if its in a house in the summer that has no A/C.... by Sucking the HOT air UP in the Summer, it keeps the COOL and HOT air CIRCULATING.... AND CIRCULATION IS THE KEY TO COOLING AND HEATING!