How To Change Your Ceiling Fan Direction - Cooling During the Summer, Warming During the Winter

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0:00 Ceiling Fan Direction Counter-clockwise = cooler room
0:15 How to change a ceiling fan's direction
0:44 Ceiling Fan Direction Clockwise = warmer room

You should change your ceiling fan direction and fan speed depending upon whether you want to cool or warm your room. Your ceiling can help your home's furnace warm up a room or your home's air conditioner cool a room, depending upon how you set it.

When a ceiling fan’s direction is running counter-clockwise it is blow air down from the center of the fan. It is literally taking the air from the ceiling and pushing it downwards into the room. This downward blowing air feels cool as it crosses our skin. The faster your fan is set to spin, the more air gets pushed down, the more the cooling effect is felt.
This is generally how you want your ceiling fans to blow in the summer months. You want to cool your rooms, so setting all your ceiling fans to counter-clockwise makes sense.

Your fans can also turn in a clockwise direction. When a ceiling fan is blowing in a clockwise direction it is actually pulling air up from your room into the center of the fan. The fan is creating an updraft. That upwards moving air hits the ceiling and then disperses out across the ceiling and down the walls of the room. If your fan is blowing fast it will still cool the room, which is not what you want during the winter months. Instead, set your ceiling fan to the slowest setting so that it gently blows the warm air from the ceiling down into the room. This can actually warm the room up by a degree or two and can save you some money on your winter heating bills.

Again, most ceiling fans do change direction, even if it isn’t obvious at first. On the base of many ceiling fans there is a little non-descript switch. It either moves up or down or left to right. Turn off your ceiling fan at the main switch, wait for the blades to slow to a stop, and then flip the little switch on your fan base. Turn your ceiling fan back on at the power switch and it should now begin turning in the opposite direction. Some ceiling fans now have remote controls which can adjust the speed and the direction that the fan blows.

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