If you want to save some money on heating and cooling bills, consider installing a ceiling fan and using it to circulate air rather than turning on the air conditioner or heater. The typical AC unit will use thousands of watts of electricity and the typical ceiling fan will use less than a hundred, over the course of a season that can result in significant power savings.
Summer Settings
In the summer, you want the fan to be blowing down and spinning fast. Your ceiling fan will have a switch somewhere that changes it from spinning clockwise to counterclockwise (and vice versa). In the summer, you want it to be blowing very quickly and blowing downward. The wind will blow the heat away from your body and thus make you feel cooler.
Winter Settings
Since heat rises, all the heat in a room will be near the ceiling. In the winter, you’ll want the fan to be blowing towards the ceiling (so flip that switch) and spinning slowly so that it circulates the hot air down to the rest of the room. If you turn it too fast, you get more circulation than you need; you want to gently urge the hot air down into the rest of the room.
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Most people just turn their fans off in the winter, missing out on the benefits that it can bring in the winter months. Thank you for including tips on winter use in your advice.
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