(Part 2) Best ceiling fans according to redditors
We found 101 Reddit comments discussing the best ceiling fans. We ranked the 48 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Air-ICF96UPS-Industrial-Ceiling/dp/B00TIPBTZS/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1463517786&sr=8-7&keywords=big+fan How is this one?
Per request here is the picture of the fan: http://imgur.com/gallery/ENckcBP.
Here is a link to the fan:.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I2VZLOY/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_72ozCbWCX3M1W.
Price has come down a bit it appears... Still a ridiculous deal we got.
EDIT: ours is the 72 inch version so it appears the price is still right around $950
Hey, that's a Gyro fan. For those posting saying you want one, you probably don't because they are like $700. They're also mostly for show and don't move nearly as much air as most regular ceilings fans do.
It's available on Amazon, but its little pricey. It will cost you $280.
you can get a basic pull chain hugger fan and light for about $35, if you shop around and look for sales. I just bought one for the guest room from Lowe's clearance isle.
Here is a brand new one for $47
https://www.amazon.com/Litex-BRC30WW6L-Reversible-Whitewash-Mushroom/dp/B0045CKDMO
Home Sweet Home
This would be my favorite item
under $15 item
It's this one.
I have energenie TRVs, they are battery powered I have seen some custom solutions that use wired power; normally this takes the form of an underfloor heating actuator replacing the top of a normal manual TRV. You would have to ensure you find an actuator with the right diameter to screw onto the valve and the right depth of piston stroke to ensure that it can impact the valve correctly.
The energenie TRVs also only replace the manual top of the TRV valve so if your radiators do not have TRVs or the valves are stuck then on top of the cost of the "smart TRVs" you would need the actual working TRV valves too.
To control the TRVs I use gpbenton's code on a raspberry pi zero with the energenie two way pi mote to communicate with the TRVs via RF. This means that is just a case of sending messages via MQTT which is picked up by the pi and communicated to the valves to turn off / on a radiator and the other data (valve state, temperature etc) gets reported back by MQTT too.
I have found it pretty reliable, sometimes there is a missed message and one thing of note is that the valves only accept messages during their reporting window, so you have to wait for a valve to send a message to be able to update it.
Big Ass Fan
Went through the same thing. My wife hates the exposed bulb look and hates when the chain comes through the middle of the glass (she calls them nipple lights). We like the more modern styles, but they come with weird bulb sizes and give off no light.
We've been really happy with these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009M9B16C/ They use standard bulbs - Put 2 75w equivalent LEDs and it will be so bright you may want a dimmer.
Home Depot was selling them for $75 this summer so I picked up a few, but it looks like they're out of stock now.
I have 8 ft. ceilings and have these, and don't think it's cramped at all. They're about 14 inches from the ceiling to the bottom of the light.
I have a ceiling fan. You want one that can move air efficiently at low speeds with a digital motor so that it will be silent. Check the spec for low speed CFM (cubic feet per minute).
Here's what I have:
http://www.amazon.com/Minka-Aire-F853-BN-SL-Brushed/dp/B00CIDYHCO
Keep the ceiling fans. Just replace them with nicer, less dated ones. Could not live without good air circulation. We put these in our house:
Craftmade Ceiling Fan with Light CON48BNK4C1 Wakefield Brushed Chrome 48 Inch Bedroom Fan
Other decent fan
Emerson CF205LVS Highpointe 54-inch Modern Ceiling Fan, 3-Blade Ceiling Fan with LED Lighting and 4-Speed Remote Control
Or
[Hunter 54in Contemporary Ceiling Fan with Remote Control in Brushed Nickel] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074HTYY95/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0bpSCb59Y75J1)
You can buy this fan here if anyone is interested.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007T7DNJW
It doesn't appear that there would be a way to shorten the old work ceiling box hangers that I've come across
I'm digging this silver [fan] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007PF6SSQ/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_on0utb0P9CS1Z)
We stayed in a cabin one time that was decorated in silver and purple. There was a big tree in the center of the room with purple lights strung around the branches. They were on a dimmer switch. Sounds kinda crazy but it worked. We left the lights on at night at a soft nightlight.
I'm currently looking into a solution for this exact thing. I personally like going the more DIY route so I've bought some Energenie TRVs and a raspberry pi module that allows me to communicate with it using a raspberry pi.
I've not had a chance to tinker with any of it yet, but my plan is to hook it all up with MQTT and build all the automations in nodered and control it in my home assistant.
Regarding the boiler, you can automate that pretty easily with just a couple of simple WiFi relays. I used the sonoff dual R2 with custom firmware. Basically you hook into the wires feeding your existing programmer, one relay to the hot water and the other relay to heating, supply it with live and neutral and then it's done. This page helped me a lot with figuring out how it should work.
That's the (or atleast 1) DIY route, I'm sure there are consumer products out there that do it all out the box, but I couldn't find any at reasonable price and with flexibility to run it locally or with my own firmware.
There's absolutely zero chance you'll be able to repair that fan blade effectively.
Fortunately, there's also zero chance the fan costs $2500 - I'm assuming that's from a price list published by your landlord, and it probably includes labor plus a punitive markup. At the absolute upper limit, it might be a $350 fan, and it's more likely in the $150-200 ballpark. It looks a bit like a Monte Carlo Discus. If you can find an identical fan, or a super similar one, you might be able to DIY the replacement or hire an electrician for way less than the landlord charges.
But, even that might not be necessary. Fan blades are modular and installed when the fan is unboxed, so they don't have to ship and shelve an enormous box to accommodate them. See if you can find a model number somewhere, and there's a very good chance you can find spare parts from the manufacturer for a couple bucks.
Well, I'm sure there are more factors at play, but here is an example of a similar setup that offers 4,450-CFM airflow and here is an example of a regular ceiling fan with similar length with an airflow of 4,890 cfm.
So I was wrong, but it is pretty close.