Fan Weekend

No, not a Fan Weekend as in rabid sports fan, no, a fan weekend as in ceiling fans...

Note the plural.

The fun started with the relocation of the Hunter Regalia II (which was here when we moved in) from the living room to the office.

As an aside, when we moved in, while the fan itself was in good shape, the paper shades and the phenolic shade retaining rings had seen much better days. Jeanie and I shopped around looking for replacement shades, but this particular fan uses a very unusual shade and we couldn't find a replacement that had the same mounting arrangement. The shades have a top washer style mount like you would normally see on the shade for a table lamp. Unfortunately, instead of the normal small hole that goes over the mounting screw and is secured by a finial, these shades use a large holed washer that goes over the threaded exterior of a candelabra bulb socket and is held in place by the phenolic shade retaining ring.

Since we couldn't find any replacements, after a fair amount of searching, we found the parts list for the fan on Hunter Fan's web site Support Center. We gave the nice folks at hunter a call to inquire as to how we would go about purchasing replacement shades. Imagine our surprise (and delight) when the the support specialist informed us that Hunter would be providing replacement shades free of charge!

I then installed our new Hunter St. Lucia in the living room. The fan has carved cherry leaf shaped blades. They make the fan very attractive, but made balancing the blades a bit challenging. Because of the relief of the carving, the blade balancing gizmo was too small to fit on the blades. I didn't want to force it on and damage the blade, so I used a plier to widen the portion that fits over the blade. Unfortunately, the margin of error between too tight and too lose was too small, and the gizmo went flying off a couple of times before I finally got the blades more of less balanced. One I got the blades balanced, I was a little concerned that the blades would cause the fan to perform poorly, but it works really well.

The last fan installation of the weekend was the installation of an Aged Bronze Baja Harbor Breeze fan with a 3 Light Aged Bronze Baja Light Kit. The fan and light kit are very pretty, but I am very disappointed in the amount of air that the fan moves. Jeanie really likes the look of the fan, and while she would prefer more airflow, feels that is enough to justify keeping the fan, so I guess we will.

I had had great hopes for finishing getting the office squared away and maybe even starting on the garage, but, I guess those projects will have to wait for another weekend.

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Posted by David at July 24, 2005 09:40 PM