Making your ceiling fans spin the right direction for winter to lower your heating bills and increase comfort.

In the winter, be sure the blades are turning clockwise and run at the fan's lowest speed. This will pull the cool air up, displacing warm air, which rises and tends to collect near the ceiling.

Setting up a blower correctly is sometimes a mixture of luck and educated guessing. That’s because it’s tough to pinpoint exactly which blower speed is correct. Assuming high speed for cooling and low ...

Almost 90% of American households use air conditioning, and 66% of that is central AC. The regions with the most AC use are the Midwest and South, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

Most of us flip the switch on our ceiling fans without a second thought. It spins, it cools, it does the job. Simple enough, right? Yet here's the thing: that simple ceiling fixture hanging above your ...

If you’re renovating or redecorating, you might be tempted to work around your current ceiling fan. But you don’t have to, and there are good reasons not to — ceiling fan technology has recently ...