Home Improvements
Finally, there’s a ceiling fan in the master bedroom. With the vaulted ceiling, the fan is on a two-foot drop down. Kinda striking. Also, I had no idea how far these things had come since the last time I put one in. No clue at all.
First off, there’s a remote. An RF remote, not IR, so you don’t have to worry about pointing it right at the fan for it to work. And a good thing too, because the remote has a built-in thermostat. Want the room at 72? Just tell the remote, and it will keep the blades going until just the right temp.
Don’t want the fan to run at all during the day? Set the timer, which, yes, works in conjunction with the thermostat. The remote even controls the lighting. Very cool.
It’s not quite warm enough to turn on the A/C, but it’s nearly warm enough to make me grab the laptop and blog from bed. That could get to be a habit. . .
Tomorrow, one more fan, some recessed lighting, and — who knows? — I might even find some time to blog.
UPDATE: Don’t bother clicking on the link to the fan we installed. Home Depot’s links are created on-the-spot from session cookies. That’s right – you can’t permalink to the products they’re selling. Amazon, they ain’t.
Smart, neither.
Steve,
I noticed the ceiling fan technology improvements a couple years ago. Love my RF remote which controls 3 speeds, direction, light, and dimmer.
One thing to beware of is that these new fans are effectively little computers with a spinning I/O device. Sooo… occasionally the computers crash or get “wedged” and they literally need to be rebooted. Symptom is no remote response, even with fresh batteries. When that happens it’s quite inconvenient to reach the reset switch on the ceiling.
When it happened to me, I was pleased that I thought to power cycle the fan via the house’s circuit breaker, and voila, fan computer reboots and everything works again.
Went around telling people that I just rebooted my fan.
Seems you really enjoy this home fix up stuff. Well done! By the way, I’ve got this leaky toilet…..
Excellent.. sounds like you are almost ready to attempt putting together baby crap like strollers and walkers!
Can your ceiling fan also do your taxes? If not, what a piece of garbage.
Hey,
I know some electrical contractors that are looking for someone to do residential service work. Looking for a sideline?
Not warm enough for the A/C? My A/C was out a few weeks ago and it got so hot in the house that the thermostat could no longer tell me how frickin’ hot it was. Just flashed OL.
Been like a sauna the past week. 90+ degrees with 60% plus humidity. You know you’re getting old when the heat you yearned for at 12 makes you run like a baby for the A/C at 35.
Randomly found your post on the ceiling fan. I am headed to Home Depot as soon as I get back to Denver (away on business now, in fact, I’m sitting ounder a fan that is making it freezing cold in this madison coffee house… they need that fan here!). I have an old (1932) home in denver w/an evaporative cooler that works pretty well, but fans are key in distributing the air.
Thanks for the post… I’m a bov villa wannabe, slowling learning home improvement, as the need arises (usually one project in an old home turns into 10, so I’m being forced to learn, but I enjoy it) 