"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/17/2017 12:52 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>> We have 9 ft. ceilings now, but most houses we've lived in have had
>> 12 ft. ceilins. I like them. We've always had ceiling fans in every
>> room except the bathrooms.
>
> No ceiling fans in the bathrooms here! My bathrooms aren't that big.
>
>> If they're reversed in the winter, it
>> brings the heat down from the ceiling. If they blow down in the
>> summer it augments the A/C.
>>
> The problem is, I can't reach the ceiling fans to flip the switch to
> reverse them. I don't do ladders. Vertigo, dontcha know. I use an
> extension wand to clean them. But sometimes just looking up at ceiling
> fans to do clean them makes me feel dizzy. Climbing a ladder to "reverse"
> the fans, nope. It's not cold here in the winter, anyway. I sometimes
> get to wear a light jacket or a sweater.

I've never reversed ours. We have low ceilings. Not sure how effective
they'd be.