It's time to adjust the direction of your ceiling fans as we transition between the heating and cooling seasons. In the cold weather months the blades should be rotating in a clockwise direction to push warm air down into the room. If your fan is spinning clockwise, look for an adjustment switch located on the head at the center of the fan and slide it in the opposite direction, when the fan is turned off, of course. This is also a good time to replace any incandescent bulbs with CFLs in ceiling fans.
During warm weather months you want your ceiling fans to spin counter-clockwise but only when you are in the room. Ceiling fans cool down people but not the air in a room. Very similar to a wind chill effect in the winter, air from a ceiling fan causes you to feel a cooling effect during summer weather.
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