Best fan setting to help dry carpet?

Factual Questions
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I’m going to be shampooing my carpet on Wednesday when the temperature is expected to be in the low 30’s (celsius), but to help with the drying process, I have a ceiling fan that has both a summer and a winter setting option.

Simple question, which one would be the most efficacious to speed up the drying?

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Blowing down, at the ground, would technically be best, but I’m guessing the room is small enough that it won’t make a real big difference one way or the other.

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For a single ceiling fan in a large room there’s probably negligible difference; the air velocity once it gets to floor level is roughly zero.

But as a general rule blow directly on whatever you’re trying to dry. So set the fan to blow downwards. Which is probably the summer setting. Maybe you can feel the air stream directly. But if not, check to see which way the fan is turning and which way the blades are angled to see which way it’s really blowing.

Keeping air exchanging to move the moisture out of the room, whether by an HVAC system or open windows if it’s not humid outdoors are your best bets to speed the drying process. And whatever shampooing machinery you use has some sort of water vac to remove most of the water. The more diligently you run that over the carpet the better. A minute’s sucking eliminates an hour’s evaporating.

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Thanks folks for the info. :slight_smile:

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Don’t forget @kambuckta is in Australia and so things might be labeled differently. [Insert stupid southern hemisphere joke here]. Or not - it’d be more polite not to; they’re real tired of those cliches.

And gosh only knows what a Chinese manufacturer might do.

But for sure your cite is how fans ought to be used seasonally and hence how they ought to be labeled.

Of course that diagram assumes the blades are angled one way and some fans might have them set opposite. So the “down in summer / up in winter” is part is surely right, but the clockwise counterclockwise part might be backwards for any given fan.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a label on one. IIRC every one that I’ve changed relied on the switch being vertical and pushing the switch pushed the air in the same direction.

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Well…this makes me think harder about how the drains allegedly flow backwards. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

Ouch. This hurts my brain.

Seriously a box fan on the floor would be faster.