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Hey, my new house has ceiling fans. I've never lived with those before. Is there a strategy...

Posted by Dr.Vermin (aka dr.vermin) Jul 20 '12, 10:23

...for making them pull the air upward or push the air downward at different times or something?

Do you have them? How/when do you use them?

And so on.

Responses:

just keep your cats (if you have them) off -- nm - JenBro Jul 20, 10:29 2
- unless you want to be endlessly entertained -- nm - the human tater tot Jul 20, 10:39 1
  - oh sure - now you show up - just in time for a cat diss - JenBro Jul 20, 10:41
summertime, make them pull up, winter, make them blow doen -- nm - CQ Jul 20, 10:27 11
- Energystar says this is wrong. -- (link) - sycor Jul 20, 10:31 2
  - they lie! -- nm - CQ Jul 20, 10:35
  - Yeah, but that's just because he's 100% wrong. -- nm - Ender Jul 20, 10:32
- Ok, this is a dumb question since i've been living in a house with them for 3+ years but, how do you do that? -- nm - Stephen Jul 20, 10:29 6
  - It only took me 1+ year to know this. - Mel Profit Jul 20, 10:32
  - there's usually a little switch on the fan itself that reverses it. -- nm - loosilu Jul 20, 10:30 4
    - Oh, is that what that switch does? - Stephen Jul 20, 10:33 2
      - quick check instructions here. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jul 20, 10:38
      - read the links mara and I posted -- nm - sycor Jul 20, 10:36
    - yep -- nm - CQ Jul 20, 10:31
- this is what I do. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 20, 10:27
when your fake tan is drying, make them blow down. -- nm - loosilu Jul 20, 10:25
We have them in all the bedrooms. We mostly use them at night when I shut off the AC so there's some air movement. -- nm - Stephen Jul 20, 10:25
Summer time, make them blow down, winter, make them pull up. -- nm - sycor Jul 20, 10:24 13
- 1) I think this is reverse conventional wisdom, 2) I don't know how conventional wisdom works when the air is just going to vortex back up and down - Max Jul 20, 10:26 12
  - I haven't seen any difference. I have 5 ceiling fans in my house, 3 of them with remote controls. - GregW Jul 20, 10:29
  - No way. In the summer you want the air to blow down so you will feel the breeze and feel cooler. Allows you to raise the temp on your AC - sycor Jul 20, 10:28 10
    - but we don't have our HVAC unit running yet, so...... -- nm - CQ Jul 20, 10:36 2
      - so then the fan will just help you feel cooler without the AC on at all -- nm - sycor Jul 20, 10:38 1
        
        I've tried both methods and pulling up the air in summer, in our house, works best. -- nm - CQ Jul 20, 10:41
    - I would think in winter you want to pull the warm air already at the ceiling down to the cool floor, but this is why I don't understand how it makes a -- nm - difference. Jul 20, 10:35 3
      - by pulling the air up it forces the warmer air at the ceiling down along the walls. But if you have it blow down you will feel a breeze so you would - sycor Jul 20, 10:37 2
        
        So it's actually about breeze and not temperature distribution. -- nm - Max Jul 20, 10:40 1
        
        In the summer yes. In the winter the fan pulling up will distribute the warmer air and help it feel warmer -- nm - sycor Jul 20, 10:43
    - Energy star and wiki answers says I'm right. - sycor Jul 20, 10:30 2
      - Wiki answers sucks, but in this case they're right. -- (link) - mara Jul 20, 10:32 1
        
        That's why I put Energystar first. :) I figure they would be right. -- nm - sycor Jul 20, 10:32

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