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Home Pre Winter Checks - Things That Need to Be Done Around the House
Wed 04 Nov 2009 - 17:10
Home Pre Winter Checks - Things That Need to Be Done Around the House
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jarvis_D]Jarvis D
It is about 5:30 in the morning, and I'm sitting in the dark living room, mentally preparing for another day. I have on my pajamas and a "wife-lover" T-shirt and suddenly I feel a cool breeze followed by an involuntary sneeze, the likes of which could have come from a two-ton elephant. I immediately look up and notice the ceiling fan is on. In a mad rush, I turn it off and, as expected, the breeze goes away.
A handyman by destiny, but a computer geek at heart, I decide it is time to fire up the laptop and review my pre-winter checklist. As I quickly scan the items on the list, I notice the checkbox next to "change fan direction," and suddenly it hits me as to why I felt the breeze.
Ceiling fans do not actually heat nor do they cool the temperature in a room. They simply circulate the air in the room. As air moves across our skin, it can create a warming or a cooling effect. If you look closely at the fan unit, you should see a little switch that can move from left to right or up and down. This switch adjusts the direction in which the blades will rotate, and the direction of rotation is what you need to be concerned with at different times of the year. You might need to experiment with the switch setting to determine how it effects your fan direction.
Looking at the blades of your ceiling fan, you will notice that they are slightly angled. Most fans have blades that are angled down to the right. If your blades are angled like this, spinning the fan counter-clockwise will push air down toward the ground, circulating the lower cooler air throughout the room. In my case, this is exactly what happened. The cool air came down, breezing past my skin, making me sneeze. This is the setting you would want your fan to be in during the warmer months. This helps move the cooler air around, especially if you are using your fan in conjunction with your air conditioner.
On the other hand, if your fan is rotating in a clockwise direction, it is pushing the air in the room upwards. Remember that heat rises, so if the fan is pushing the air upwards, the lower cooler air is made to push up against the higher warmer air. The result is that the higher warmer air will move down into the room along the walls-instead of staying floating up on along the ceiling where you can't feel it. During the cooler seasons, you would want your fan to spin clockwise for this very reason. When the heat is on in your house, you notice that it's warmer as you get closer to the ceiling or higher up in the house. With the ceiling fan rotating clockwise, the heated air in the room is being circulated down to where you can feel it.
So the moral of this story is either I should wear more clothes while in the house or I should complete my pre-winter checklist before it gets cold. Personally, I would rather go with the checklist. With the way the economy is, I'm going to do whatever I can to make the most efficient use of my resources. And using the ceiling fan in the winter will help circulate the heat in the house, helping get that warm air off the ceiling and down to me on the ground. And if that can save me money...then I'm all for it.
My entire winter checklist can be downloaded at [http://www.dajagloproperties.com/seasonal_plans.html]Pre-Winter Checklist
To find the list scroll to the bottom of the page.
Jarvis D. http://www.dajagloproperties.com
"We Build Quality, One Customer At A Time"
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