On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:45:53 -0500, JimL wrote:


A couple of points.
1. If at all possible, leave the heated air in your vaulted
ceilings. No fans are anything to disturb the hot air. It is where
it should stay. The temp below can be 5 degrees cooler if you don't
disturb it.

That's what I thought. The fans are good in the winter, to blow the
hot air from the top of the room down to where you are, but in the
summer doing that just makes one hotter. Right?

There is a slight breeze from slow ceiling fans, but a better breeze
is created by a table fan that blows low altitude cool air on you,
rather than ceiling level hot air.

Of course the hot air will get cooled by the AC, but why bother, when
it can just stay in the upper altitudes of the room, right?