Wood Stove Ceiling Fan Direction

Turn the thermostat down to about 55 degrees.

Wood stove ceiling fan direction.

If your home has a wood stove plus a forced air system for backup you can run only the fans on the backup system. A fan set to move clockwise opposite the ceiling fan direction in summer and run on low speed creates an updraft. The base of the stove fan gets contact with the hot surface of the stove so heat will transfer from hot stove to the cold metal base of the stove fan. A ceiling fan should rotate counterclockwise in the summer so the blades push cooler air down in a column.

Usually a wood stove fan is placed at the top of the stove. We have a large open room where the wood stove is that connects with the kitchen and eating area and this heats the whole house this way. That pulls cold air up to the ceiling and more evenly distributes the warmth the. Winterizing ceiling fans simply means running ceiling fans in the winter in the opposite direction clockwise.

There s usually a manual switch for. It allows you to turn your thermostat up a few degrees. Since the air near the ceiling is warmer than the air near the floor of a room ceiling fans push the trapped warm air back down and circulate it evenly throughout the room. It seems to me that by doing this the hot air along the ceiling would be forced to move outward and down while being replaced with cooler air from below.

I have been told and it seems reasonable to set the ceiling fan so it draws upward in winter when operating a stove if you want to circulate the air better. This is the best ceiling fan direction for air conditioning since it makes the air feel cooler than it is. The surface of a wood stove becomes very hot when it is running in full speed.