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Pick ceiling fan sweep, fan count and downrod length from your room size, ceiling height and required air delivery.
This selector answers the two separate questions a ceiling fan poses: how wide the blades should be, chosen from floor area, and how far the fan should hang, chosen from ceiling height. Sweep follows the standard floor-area bands — 900 mm up to about 7 m², 1200 mm to 13.5 m², 1400 mm to 21 m² — and the downrod is sized so the blades land near 2.4 m above the floor with at least 450 mm of blade-to-wall clearance. It also reports the air changes per minute you get from the recommended fan's rated delivery.
Open Ceiling Fan Size Selector on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Enter the values you already know.
Fine-tune the options to match your scenario.
Read the result and use it in your planning or reporting.
Most guides cover only blade width; this also gives the downrod and the resulting blade height.
Converts the fan's rated m³/min into air changes per minute for your actual room volume.
Warns when the ceiling is too low, the rod too long, or the room too narrow for the sweep.
Go by floor area: 900 mm (36 inch) up to about 7 m², 1200 mm (48 inch) up to 13.5 m², 1400 mm (56 inch) up to 21 m², and two fans beyond roughly 26 m². A standard 10 ft × 12 ft Indian bedroom is 11 m², so a 1200 mm fan is the right call.
Aim for the blades about 2.4 m above the floor and never below 2.1 m, which is why a 3 m ceiling needs roughly a 300 mm downrod and a 2.7 m ceiling needs none. Keep at least 300 mm between the blades and the ceiling too, or the fan starves for air and moves far less than its rating.
Air delivery is the volume of air the fan moves, quoted in cubic metres per minute. IS 374 sets 210 m³/min as the minimum for a 1200 mm ceiling fan, and a fan delivering that into a 30 m³ bedroom turns the air over about seven times a minute — enough for the breeze to feel continuous.
Not usefully. The blade tip needs at least 450 mm of clearance to the nearest wall, so a 1400 mm fan wants a room at least 2.3 m across on its shortest side. Closer than that and the blades work against the wall, which cuts airflow and makes the fan noisy.
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