Ceiling fans can be reversed in Winter to keep heat from rising to the ceiling

I’m spending the next more than 2 weeks in our dad’s hunting cottage while I finish the book I’m writing.

My publisher gave me a strict deadline for our initial draft and I have a few chapters left to finish.

Once I get that far, I have to go over the manuscript with a fine-toothed comb to find any complications, mistakes, or story discrepancies. If I have the time, I care about to style out a second draft while studying from the original. This gives me the chance to either retain sentences or completely rewrite them as I am going along. This is a trick that I l acquired working for newspapers when I had more than 2 computer monitors to use in tandem. I would display the first draft on a single screen while typing out the second draft on the other screen. Unluckyly, I only have our laptop with me while I’m here in our dad’s hunting cottage. But I have more things to worry about than not having our ideal computer setup. I wasn’t expecting how freezing it was going to be despite our father’s warnings. Even though I have plenty of firewood, it didn’t seem care about the woodstove was sufficiently warming the small cottage. In a fit of frustration I went on the internet to see what I could do to improve the temperature in the cottage. I was relieved when I study about reversing a ceiling fan to keep heat low to the floor, because this cottage has more than 2 of these fans installed. I did what the article advocated and within seconds I had these fans pushing heat back down so it doesn’t all rise into the attic whenever I have a fire burning in the wood stove. That small change made a sizable difference in our comfort level here.

 

Ceiling fans can be reversed in Winter to keep heat from rising to the ceiling