which way should the ceiling fan spin?

Sitting here on the 9° day I got to wondering which would be the proper way for my fan to spin. Little background info. The stove is on the far left side of the house below the bedrooms. The ceiling fan is in the foyer and is were most of my heat comes up. With the fan off and the stove cranking it spins clockwise. Which direction would be best to get the most air movement In you guy's opinion?

 

Hands down, DOWN!

Now, a real DOWNER is gonna be the guy who's down, comes in here, and says UP, cuz he needs a little UPPER, ya know?

But I still say down, 2 thumbs up on down!

 

Thanks man I needed a laugh too.

 

I solved the issue with 2 fans, one up, one down

Otherwise, I'd be bamboozled with it all, but down makes sense to me.......

Trust me, this is FHC, this thread could go on page after page with this analysis, soooooo throw another log on the fire

 

In my opinion, pushing heat downward works better than pushing the cool air upward. The key thing to remember is that the faster you get the warm air moving, the quicker it cools down. I run my fan downward as slow as it will go. I find that I get better results stirring the air as opposed to blowing the air if you get my drift.....................

 

This. Unless of coarse you were to move south of the equator then I think, well, hmmm, maybe that just has to do with which way the water spins in the terlit????

 

That's what's great bout this place. A simple up or down can turn into a great debate.

 

You could always mount a ceiling fan on a side wall. But then it would no longer be a ceiling fan would it.

 

Works on bugs bunny.

 

Blowing up is the only way I use mine. Seriously, it won't spin the other way anymore.

 

It should spin around. Had to tape pennies on one once to balance it because it had a flight pattern like a drunk humming bird. Thought it was going to come out of the ceiling it was so all over.

 

Here's what I was pondering, man its been a long cold day. The fan hangs about 3 feet from the ceiling. So after reading this and ansehnlich1 answer I'm still confuzzled. Shouldn't I try to push the cold air down to make it push the warm air up or since this is the only open space to allow warm up its better to pull it up?

 

Yea I read that but was not sure if fan height, stove placement and such mattered.

 

Yep. That's the way I always do it. Warm air naturally rises. I get a much better circulation by not fighting the natural order of things.


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We have a ceiling fan in the middle of our living room, which is our stove room. If I want to keep the heat on the first floor, I run it so the air blows up. That lifts the cold air off the floor and circulates the hot air and keeps all of it from going up the stairwell to the second floor. If I want the heat upstairs, I turn the fan off, as the heat simply rises, hits the ceiling and quickly spills up the stairwell. In this photo from Christmas 2013 (with our Beta IS) I'm standing on the stairs and the heat crosses the ceiling and flows heavily upstairs without the fan running.

 

The heat definitely rises well enough up the steps to turn the fan, I just want to kinda move it out of the corner some.

 

Counter clockwise (up if wired correctly).
Adding to the principles Backwoods Savage noted above.
Air moving downwards (clockwise rotation in the summer) speeds the air you feel directly on your skin, increasing evaporation rate of your sweat (or glisten for you ladies) causing a cooling effect.
Air in the house during the winter is already dryer than normal especially with a woodstove, there is no reason to increase the evaporation rate of your sweat, it'll only make you feel cooler (good when you've overheated the house on the anxious shoulder season burns in October)