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If you've installed a ceiling fan in your shop (or home), DON'T follow the standard industry advice about "clockwise" or "counterclockwise". Fan blades are designed in both tilt directions, and thus some fans should turn one way, others the opposite. The proper selection/sensing is "down flow", with the air coming toward you as you stand under the fan. This direction works both summer AND winter. Summer: obviously, the air motion cools exposed skin and this cools the body. Winter: if you want heat drawn from the top of a room and distributed down and around, run the fan so the air goes DOWN. If you reverse it to "upflow", the air will circulate up against the ceiling, but then moves horizontally to the inlet of the fan, which means air circulation occurs only between the ceiling and the space about 6~12" below the fan blades. Winter "downflow" will capture the heat off the celling and mix it into the room. It still cools exposed skin, so the winter choice becomes long sleeved shirts or simply turning off the fan. You will find this advice is not shared by the fan manufacturers. But they gave up their engineering departments decades ago, so it's the marketing people drawing up those pretty--but erroneous--diagrams. [CV: I started my career in 1972 working for a fan manufacturer.]
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Winter is on the way and in Ohio we never know what to expect but I do know it is coming. While I was working I only worked on the weekends in my shop. But now I am looking at having 7 days a week. Don't get me wrong, I love my wife of 50 years but the prospect of being in the house 24/7? I shudder at the prospect. I currently use a couple of kerosene heaters to take the edge off of 30 degree days but I don't think that will cut it. I don't want a wood stove either. I am thinking I need a better solution. Maybe a gas heater? Propane or natural? Ceiling unit or floor unit? Suggestions? My shop is about 16 ft. X 50 ft and has decent insulation in the walls and ceiling.
