How to Use Ceiling Fans to Heat a Room
- 1). Set a ladder under your ceiling fan. Climb the ladder carefully up to the fan. Reverse the switch on the fan motor from its summer setting, so the fan will turn in a clockwise direction. This produces an updraft in the room and forces warm air downward.
- 2). Set the fan on a low setting. A fan creates a breeze that cools the body, but a breeze is not desired in the winter. A lower setting limits the breeze and results in a room that is more evenly heated.
- 3). Adjust your thermostat lower in accordance with the warmer conditions that now exist in the room. You can use a lower setting because the fan helps distribute the heat more evenly throughout the room, rather than rising up to the ceiling.