Air destratifier all Dimensions

ALL destratifiers are ceiling fans, but not all ceiling fans are serious air destratifiers.

Air destratifiers, or reversible ceiling fans, are fans that are designed to take the heat stored on our ceilings and use it where we live, within the first two metres where we need it.

The principle of air stratification :

As warm air is less dense than cold air, temperature strata form in our rooms, like what yo...

Air destratifier all Dimensions

ALL destratifiers are ceiling fans, but not all ceiling fans are serious air destratifiers.

Air destratifiers, or reversible ceiling fans, are fans that are designed to take the heat stored on our ceilings and use it where we live, within the first two metres where we need it.

The principle of air stratification :

As warm air is less dense than cold air, temperature strata form in our rooms, like what you see in a cocktail in a glass.

The warmer air at the highest point, the colder air at the bottom.  We usually see a difference of 2° per linear height setting, which is simply a colossal loss of energy.

Moreover, this does not depend on the type of heating, all types of heating are concerned, be it underfloor heating, pellet stoves, etc...

If you have a room with a mezzanine of 6 metres for example, the temperature difference between the highest and lowest point will be about 12°!  This means that if you had your heating thermostat on the sixth metre, you would have to set it at 32° to feel 20° below!

Do you find this absurd? But that's what happens when you put your thermostat at 20° in your high ceiling rooms, in reality you heat your ceilings to 32°, where there is no one to benefit from it.

The destratification will solve the problem, the objective being to have a maximum difference of 3° over these 6 metres, i.e. 0.3 to 0.5° per metre of difference in height.

How does it work?

In fact, the blades will rotate in the direction of the suction upwards. This increases the speed at which the warm air rises to hit the ceiling, and thus causes the air flow to fall back down the walls of your room.

During the descent, the air cools down, thus becoming denser, descends even faster, to be reheated and then rises again, etc. The cycle is in place.

The advantage of this system is that you don't feel any air on you, so you don't feel any draught on you.

So what is the difference between a destratifier and a ceiling fan?

To be an air destratifier, there are a series of conditions:

1) Low power consumption, because destratificators never stop - the first speed must be below 10 watts! 

2) The summer/winter function on the remote control, because perched 6 metres away, if the function is on the body of the ventilator, it will be necessary to make a cascade every 6 months to change the mode, not practical.

3) They have to support extensions of more than 60 cm, in our case some brands go up to 1.80 metres. This makes it possible to get closer to the ground, which increases the efficiency in summer but also in winter.

Finally, there are super air detergents, products originally designed to be destratifiers and not fans. For example the Modulo from Klassfan, the BigCoolEco, or the Genuino from Casafan.

The thermostatic sensor is a gadget or really useful: 

Some of these products are equipped with a thermostatic sensor, allowing you to trigger, but also to make your destratifier turn more or less quickly according to the temperature picked up by the sensor. 

This sensor is located under the canopy of the destratifier, generally at the highest point of your volume, which allows you to read the temperature at the highest point of the room, the perfect place. 

This option is very interesting because when your heating system will be triggered, a pocket of hot air will be created and it will be detected immediately by the destratifier which will increase the destratification power immediately, the time needed to destratify your volume will be greatly reduced, and therefore your heating system will stop before ... 

Therefore, prefer a system with a thermostatic sensor, as these will be even more efficient, and therefore make you make real savings on heating.  

On this table you will have an appreciation of the type of destratifiers you need. For example, if you have a 60m² room with a cathedral ceiling of 6 metres, refer to a product with a diameter of 166 cm.

In any case you can contact us if you have any questions on this subject.