269. I Can Use It All Year?
28 Jan 2026 · 3 min
Derek Cole explains how to use ceiling fans all year. Run them counterclockwise in summer to cool down, clockwise on low in winter to push warm air from the ceiling back down into the room.
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Foreign. Hey guys, welcome to the podcast and I want to tell you something exciting. The ceiling fan, which you probably love, you can use it all year round. It's not just to cool you down in the summertime when you're hot and sweaty and you love that wind chill effect, you can actually use that ceiling fan also in the winter. So if you look at your ceiling fan, you know, you know you have a switch on it or you have a remote and you can change the.
Direction of the fan.
So in the summertime it is going counterclockwise, which is creating that wind chill effect, cooling you down, right? In the winter time it switches. It should be going clockwise, you should be running it on low. What's going to happen? It's going to pull that cold air up at the room and it's going to bring the warm air that is up in the ceiling back down to the room and actually help you out and heating that space with that ceiling fan on something a lot of people don't think about. Some you might not have known. But check it out, try it out. Let me know how it goes.
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