But now it is time to face a harsh reality of what concerns your heating bill. Currently, your ceiling fan drains your money. Fans are used to cool people down. However, the only thing they do is stir the air. And forgetting about direction settings, you basically pay to freeze your own feet.

The secret of the matter is a tiny lever near the motor housing. Unfortunately, people ignore its existence. Changing the setting of the lever means changing the blade pitch and, therefore, altering the flow of air inside the room.

During the summer time, you should turn the fan in the counter-clockwise direction to provide the direct flow of air. As a consequence, hot air flows down producing a chilling effect due to the wind chill effect. But in the winter months, the same setting produces an undesirable draft and unnecessary load on your furnace.

In order to feel comfortably in the cold period, you have to rotate your blades clockwise and adjust the fan to a slow speed. It will make cool air to move up whereas the accumulated warm air from the ceiling will be pressed down the walls of the room.

This phenomenon is called destratification. You will not feel any breeze from the fan, which is exactly what you need to do. The room will become warmer without your turning the dial on your thermostat.

According to the majority of experts, you should run the fan at the lowest possible speed because otherwise you can cause a draft. It is necessary to slowly press the accumulated heat down to the floor of the room.

Following the above mentioned simple rule, you will reduce your heating costs by 15 percent this winter. The saved money equals to earned money; so spend the saved money on something useful – pizza or games, for example.