This may sound like a silly question, but when I run the fans on winter mode, what exactly is happening to the air in the room. I turned on the fans on winter mode and ran them in the back bedrooms where it gets cooler (my stove is in the basement) and it really seemed to help warm the air when I combined that with a small fan blowing back towards the staircase leading up from the basement. Just curious.
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Not sure what kind of fans you are talking about but it seems to me the fact that you have circulation going on makes it warmer.Fresh air we heat up better that dead,stale air.
Hey WS,
Are you talking about ceiling fans? If so, the idea is that the fans are drawing air up, pulling heated air upwards towards the ceiling. The air then hits the ceiling, then the wall, then travels down. You've got a circuit of air, turning over on itself, distributing the heat. I've got an Englander 30 in my basement as well - does a nice job heating the upstairs, especially when the blower is on. I have ceiling fans in my great room to help move things along, too. I'm pretty happy with the set-up, but I am always tweaking to see if I can improve upstairs heating!
Chris
Are you talking about ceiling fans? If so, the idea is that the fans are drawing air up, pulling heated air upwards towards the ceiling. The air then hits the ceiling, then the wall, then travels down. You've got a circuit of air, turning over on itself, distributing the heat. I've got an Englander 30 in my basement as well - does a nice job heating the upstairs, especially when the blower is on. I have ceiling fans in my great room to help move things along, too. I'm pretty happy with the set-up, but I am always tweaking to see if I can improve upstairs heating!
Chris
Yeah I was really surprised when I flicked those ceiling fan switches....those back bedrooms can get mighty cool...almost too cold...I even had some condensation on my back bedroom ceiling fromt the warm air meeting the cold ceiling. I turned the fan on to dry the area where the water had formed and was really surprised how the room heated up. My Englander does a nice job heating the whole house too. This is the second year I've had it and I'm really happy that this year I've got seasoned wood! Its made all the difference in the world. The new windows we put in seems to be hold the heat in nicely also. I've defenitely burned less wood this year so far.
You want the air to move to get the hot air off the ceiling but you don't want a breeze blowing on you. Reversing the fans moves hot air across the coldest surfaces to equalize room temp and also allows the plume from the fan to disperse before it hits you at high velocity.
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