When a ceiling fan is reversed, it causes the fan to move air upward towards the ceiling, versus the normal rotation which causes the fan to blow air downward where we may be standing or sitting. For this to be effective the fan must be used in reverse mode. A ceiling fan will bring this warm air back down to the living level of our homes, thus helping our rooms to feel noticeably warmer and more comfortable. This forces the hot air upwards, which becomes trapped against our ceilings where it does no good for comfort. Therefore, doing the winter months the cold air, being heavier than warm air, settles at the floor level of our homes. Why Use Reverse Mode When It's Cold Outside?Ĭold air is more dense than warm air. She actually said that it gave he a better sense of how it would look in her home if she lied down below the product and stared at it for a while. Only she wasn't laying on the floor to see which direction the fan was going. I once had a very popular Hollywood actress in buying ceiling fans and she was doing that exact same thing. H ey, don't pick on my for laying on the floor in a ceiling fan / lighting showroom and looking up at the products. Then, just to be sure, and I know this sounds crazy, but I laid down on the floor directly below the center of the ceiling fan and looked up at it from that angle, and then without any doubt in my mind I knew the fan was for 100% sure going clockwise. Lay Below the Ceiling Fan, Look Up = No More Confusion The fan's direction had not changed, just to my eyesight and in my mind it suddenly looked like clockwise again.
I went over to the fan and looked straight up at it, and suddenly what was supposed to be clockwise began to look clockwise to me again. For the first time ever I looked up at a ceiling fan and saw what looked to be a counter-clockwise rotation, when I knew it was supposed to be in the clockwise reverse setting for winter time use.Īfter looking at it for a while and almost gave in to, I, as well as all of the ceiling fan manufacturers were wrong about a fan's direction all along, something occurred to me.
To prove my point, I showed him my watch and said, "See!" Just after I showed him my watch, and no sooner than I said the word "see", I myself became confused along with him.
#FAN CLOCKWISE IN SUMMER HOW TO#
I was thinking to myself, "All those degrees and he missed the class in 1st grade when they taught him about a clock and how to use it to tell time." You have probably met the type, all the book-smarts in the world, but not an once of common sense? Well this wasn't really this guy, because he had decent common sense, but still, come on, who doesn't know which way a clock rotates? The co-worker I was training was very book-smart and had all kinds of college masters degrees. He looked at me and said, "But that is spinning counter clockwise."Īt first I thought he was crazy, as he proceeded to argue with me on which direction was counter-clockwise is in comparison to clockwise. I told him that a ceiling fan should spin clockwise during the winter months, and proceeded to put a fan in its reverse (clockwise) winter setting. I never realized this ceiling fan confusion in counter-clockwise and clockwise rotation when looking at a fan until one day when I was training a new co-worker. It causes many to be confused in which is clockwise and counter-clockwise. We usually view a ceiling fan from an angle off to the side of the blades while looking upward all at the same time.
This angle is rarely straight up from underneath the fan. This confusion is caused by the angle that we will usually view a ceiling fan from. I could easily give you the short answer, but working in the ceiling fan business as long as I have, I realize that the short answer helps only about 50% of the people that ask the question, "Which way should I run my fan during the winter?" In order for a ceiling fan to help during the cold season, first you must know which direction to operate your fan during the winter versus the summer.
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