I've always heard that you need to switch your ceiling fans at the change of the weather so that in winter, the fan is blowing warm air and in summer the fan is blowing cool air. This is supposed to help a little on your heating bill. I never could remember which way was which, but I read a book last week that said counter-clockwise in fall/winter and clockwise in spring/summer.

This morning I dusted the fans (must be done before you switch them, unless you want clumps of dust and yuck all over--although it is pretty easy to just vacuum up, lol) and switched our fans to counter-clockwise and almost instantly I could tell the difference.

This is an old tip, we've all heard it, but I thought I would share.

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I can never remember which way either!

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Ok today I'm going to switch my fans and see if this really makes a difference. I just did the one in the room I'm in. The button is up for the winter, down for the summer.

How do u switch the fan to go in reverse