Circulating air in house is expensive

waytomany?s wrote: ↑

Tue. Nov. 22, 2022 11:48 am

Why? Seems like airflow would still be the same.

Boiler by definition is hot water heat. It pumps hot water to all 3 floors finned baseboard and cast iron radiators. Wood stoves are basically just space heaters.

warminmn wrote: ↑

Mon. Nov. 21, 2022 12:06 pm

I run my ceiling fans winter and summer, 365 days a year. Much more comfortable. 8 foot ceilings.

Me too…’cept I’m the odd duck.

My fan blows down in the winter to help keep the heat lower in the room.

In the summer I reverse it to pull cold air off the floor.

This is opposite of most fan manuals and what most people recommend.

Personally, I’ve found running the fan this way works far better, more efficiently and more effectively.

Hoytman wrote: ↑

Wed. Nov. 23, 2022 1:50 am

Me too…’cept I’m the odd duck.

My fan blows down in the winter to help keep the heat lower in the room.

In the summer I reverse it to pull cold air off the floor.

This is opposite of most fan manuals and what most people recommend.

Personally, I’ve found running the fan this way works far better, more efficiently and more effectively.

Individual situations might render different results. I just turned my ceiling fan on the other day. It is located at the top of the vaulted ceiling on top of the open staircase by the bedrooms. There is an air handler that gets its air supply up in a crawlspace attic in that vicinity. I have 3 levels. A walkout finished basement, main floor, and second floor. I have a coal stove in the walkout and another on the main floor. I made a door for the top of the walkout stairs that is only half high. The top is open so heat can leave the lowest level. I think that fan in that location sucking up, moves all that warm air right into an area where the air handler can effectively use it. So the ceiling fans sucks all the warm air from below and delivers it to the air handler that can then move it all over the main and second level.

Hoytman wrote: ↑

Wed. Nov. 23, 2022 1:50 am

Me too…’cept I’m the odd duck.

My fan blows down in the winter to help keep the heat lower in the room.

In the summer I reverse it to pull cold air off the floor.

This is opposite of most fan manuals and what most people recommend.

Personally, I’ve found running the fan this way works far better, more efficiently and more effectively.

Usually if we dont follow the leader we are the leaders Without a ceiling fan my wood floors get pretty cold on this frozen tundra! I will say in the heat of summer I have a couple antique fans that I can put on the floor and aim upward at my chair and it works well. One is a 1940's hunter fan that I have to oil that blows more air than any fan Ive ever had.

Gotta love those old fans.

Our wood floors remain cold even with the ceiling fan when the furnace is on. Coal heats everything, even our bones.