:: Bersa Talk ::

First of all, a fast,large fan in the winter will provide wind CHILL, not heat. You need slow and steady air movement upward to push the massed warm air down from the ceiling, but you want the air to come down at the perimeter, not straight down on your head. The idea is to circulate, not create a cold wind. Blade pitch is a good way to determine air movement, not speed. A 16 ft ceiling should have fans dropped to 12 ft or so. If you push pullcold air up from the floor it will circulate the warm air downward at the perimeter..

Most people have their ceiling fans pushing air downward in the summer, but if you are using air conditioning, you want to raise the cool air upward, so once again you should try running the fan to circulate air UPWARD which means it will help pull the cool air up so the overall temp will drop. Again, you will be pushing air upward in the center of the room so that it will circulate downward on the perimeter. 

Well I think you should lower you ceiling  Remodel so you ceiling is 7' then you can make that now enclosed space a  gun room and storage room . Be a lot easlier to cool LR and all that wasted space now is useable  for guns and Ammo and food, water , or to hide from wife, kids, police ,

I have my fans to push air up  also but my ceilings are low and I must duck every fan in the house. or feel the wack wack wack of the blades

michael t:

I have my fans to push air up  also but my ceilings are low and I must duck every fan in the house. or feel the wack wack wack of the blades

I have all the neighbor babes over fannin the palm leaves for me..

The low fans cant be much differnt then walkin around in front of future x wife all day. There is alot of "wack'n" on the back of my head when she's behind me. Scrambles all those little voices up pretty good too.

Hi Poke....I have a tall ceiling in my living room (15')...and a ceiling fan....with 4 speeds + OFF. The "wing span" of the thing is maybe 6'....My LR has two vents in the ceiling not too far from the fan, and because of the slope of the ceiling, the vents are not that much higher than the fan. I have my fan blowing the air down. High speed will freeze a person out, so it is usually on speed #2 or 3....I do not use the fan that much in the winter, but if I turn it on, it is reversed, so it is not blowing the air down...I am able to keep my thermostat 2 to 3 degrees warmer in the summer when the fan on...... FWIW, I also have them installed in three bedrooms, and they are used as described above....ceilings in bedrooms are 8'....

Mason, that's why your hat doesn't stay on right........duh.....

Americangirl01:

Mason, that's why your hat doesn't stay on right........duh.....

Actually the staples do a pretty good job holding it in place for the most part but it sure does get crinkled up in the back. But nothing I cant press out with a good hot iron.

michael t wrote the following post at 15 Jul 2008 8:17 PM:

No thanks Iain't wakeing up going hand to had with some monster .

Is that why you do not have a wife???....lol...jk....

Don't believe everything you read. When you blow hot air down in an air conditioned room you are raising the temperature at the lower level . When you draw cool air upward from the ac ducts you are making the room cooler. Of course when you blow the air downward you will feel the air, but it will be warm air, not cool. If the room is not air conditioned then circulate the air downward for cooling. As far as the air blowing up in the winter, yes you are avoiding a draft. The problem is that with a cathedral ceiling of 16 feet (I have one too) the volume of heated air is huge at the top, but chilly at floor level. I use my fans to circulate the warm air downward but at a low speeed, not a whirlwind. In our great room I have 2 fans, one circulating up and one circulating down.  It all changes when you go to a 7 foot ceiling in a small room where everything a fan does is magnified. 

 I have installed Hunter and Litex fans in Lowe's lighting departments for many years as a service rep for both companies, and you are correct, the fan instructions read as you say, but my experience has shown me otherwise.  .       

Mason:

Hey Poke, Did you change your avitar again?

yes,   if you look close you will see me in my jeep playing in 3 feet of mud.

Neighbor of mine got a broke ankle from one of those 7' ceiling fans.....having wild $ex and stuck her foot in the fan!    Watch out for the bedroom  fan Micheal!

Jimmy K