If the air movement created by a ceiling fan isn t hitting anyone s.
Do ceiling fans really cool a room.
They simply move the air around.
As most would like to think of ceiling fan usage as a more cost effective alternative to running the air conditioning system ceiling fans do not cool the temperature in a home.
Ceiling fans do not lower air temperature.
Ceiling fans are useful for cooling only when they move air over skin.
Ceiling fans cool the room s occupants not the room itself meaning you can turn off any ceiling fans in rooms that are not currently in use.
Believing that ceiling fans help to cool a home is a misconception among many people.
So in essence you are simply paying to fan your furniture and worse.
Choose the correct blade direction when running your ceiling fan in the warmer months make sure the blades are rotating in a counter clockwise direction.
Ceiling fans cool people.
You pay for the energy to run the motor and the running motor actually adds.
The net result of running a ceiling fan is that you re adding heat to the room.
Instead the fan cools the occupants in it.
By aiding evaporative cooling and by aiding convective cooling.