Ceiling Fan Heater – Will It Benefit You?

A ceiling fan heater has definite benefits for you and your home. Aren’t you tired of having cold spots in various rooms of your home? As it happens, this might be just exactly what you need!

What is a ceiling fan heater?

It is a traditional ceiling fan but with a bonus. It also has a heater built into it. In the warmer months, it functions like a standard ceiling fan. The difference is that in the cooler months, you can turn on the heater unit and have it warm the room too.

We all remember from elementary school that hot air rises, right? Well, in the colder months, the last thing that we really want to do is to heat the ceiling of our homes. After all, unless we defy gravity, we aren’t hanging out up at the ceiling. Instead, we’re down on the floor and that’s where we’d like for the warm air to be also!

What happens with these ceiling fan heaters are that they generate heat, like a space heater. Now that we have that nice heat up there near the fan, we need to get it down where it can do some good. To do this, the fan circulates the warm air down from the ceiling and to the lower level of the room where we can actually feel it. Of course, this circulating air also serves to move the colder air from the lower part of the room up to where the heater is so it can be warmed up. This keeps a nice stream of warm air circulating around the room and helps to eliminate cold spots.

Do you think a ceiling fan heater can help with energy savings?

It definitely can! If you spend most of your time in certain rooms of the house, you can install a ceiling fan heater in each of those rooms to keep them warmer. That will allow you to turn down the thermostat and not have to keep the whole house so warm. These fans are able to heat a room that measures approximately 20′ x 20′ with a 10′ ceiling. That’s pretty good if you think about it. That’s bigger than most bedrooms or family rooms.

Another cool thing about many of these fans is that they come with a remote control to control both the fan speed and the temperature setting of the heater. So, instead of having to jump up from your comfortable chair, you can just use the remote control to make adjustments. Some of the ceiling fan heaters, such as Reiker’s, have a programmable remote so that you can use the remote to control more than one fan. That’s great if, for example, you have a large room with more than one fan in it. You don’t want to be looking for the remote for each fan.

Admittedly, these ceiling fans with heaters are not a cheap as a traditional ceiling fan but with the extra features that they provide, I think you’ll find that they’re well worth the extra expense.