Changing the Ceiling Fan in the Living Room 8/2022
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Replacing the ceiling fan in the living room during the month of August 2022. This is the first installation in the new house and it came out great. Surprisingly, very few things went wrong and everything that was existing was more or less set up the way I wanted it to be.
Ceiling fans from the 80s and 90s are more beautiful than the newer ones today.
I agree.
casablanca fans from that era are timeless, and some still look similar today
I’m glad you took that modern fan out and putted something so much better. 80s and earlier ceiling fans just look better.
I agree.
Great installation!
Looks so much better I also think a hunter original would look amazing in that room
It could
HECK YEAH. Even more classic.
This fan is such a classic. I remember seeing these, and others similar often hanging in great rooms like this when I was a kid.
Warning: long comment.
My across the street neighbor as a child had a large great room addition similar to this instal. He had two SMC, very early Emperors installed. Despite being an industrial electrician, he had them run on regular lamp wire hidden along the beams and down to outlets and plugged in. He had a long pipe with a small claw welded to the end to pull the chains for light and fan speed. It sounds jenky, but looked pro. The room had a large, brick, wood-burning fireplace, huge Andersen windows, looked out onto an in-ground pool, green grass, and a stream. Very nice.
For whatever reason, he decided to run them on high/reverse one night. They were J-hook into the beams. One unscrewed itself and fell on his mother. She spent a few days in the hospital.
He moved the remaining fan and installed it on the middle beam, instead of two fans on the far beams.
He found out he had jaw cancer and had a month or two to live. (Worked in a DuPont factory his whole life). I was devastated as he taught me so much about electrical, HVAC, etc. He had central air conditioning installed, had painted the whole house inside and out professionally, bought his wife a new car, had the pool removed and new sod laid, etc., knowing he was fixing to die.
He had the whole great room addition whitewashed, which was terrible but it was the 90’s, and carpeted over the wood floors. Since they had AC installed, he had the fan removed and gave it to me. I was maybe 13 at the time. I dissected it, leaned how it worked, but it got tossed at some point.
I’m 36 now, in my own house that was built new for me. Have amazing ceiling fans that are all permanent installs.
I owe a lot of what I know to him. And your living room and that Hampton Bay Marco Polo reminds me a lot of me childhood neighbor and his primary living/great room. Very well done, sir.
Interesting story!
Looks amazing indeed, great job!
Yeah the old fan probably has a bad capacitor. '05 was within the era of those cheap incorrectly made caps. You could probably repair that unit.
Yes it is definitely in the cap plague era. I will probably try to fix it some day, it's probably a decent fan when working correctly.
Looks amazing! Good job on the installation
Very good and nice looking fan too
Indeed.
"Screw the viewers! Put the air conditioner on!" Has to be one of the best comments ever. Because I live in Texas, where heat/humidity is so deadly to an extent air conditioning is considered essential.
Other than that, the Emperor looks nice in the living room.
That modern fan was vile - I can’t stand the newer designs. Love the replacement
Most modern fans I find to be complete eyesores, but this one I didn't mind much. If I can repair it, which it probably just needs new capacitors, I may use it again sometime.
I just cant with the "Its getting tired and Im getting late"
OK then
As always, a great install! I love the look of the long downrod! A 24” downrod is the correct length for 11’ ceilings. Ceiling fans should hang about 8-9’ from the floor for proper air circulation. Also, you don’t even have to extend the box. They make combination dimmer and regular switches. However, they are hard to come by and can get pricey. There are also combo dimmer/fan wall control switches, which are more common, and allow you to control the speed of the fan from the wall, so long as your fan is compatible. Anyway, I also think it is amazing how good that box was. It is awesome to have at least the possibility for a separate fan/light control!Also, I like how there is just some track lighting on the top of those beams. I thought it was actual fixtures with electrical boxes before, but the track idea is so cool. It makes it really easy to adjust the lighting in the room. I really like your living room, it is really nice! Also, can’t wait to see the lights in the garage!
I prefer the blades to be around 7' from the floor, but it just wouldn't look right. I think the 24" is cosmetically correct in relation to the beams.
I have one of those combination controls somewhere, I may use it for now but eventually would rather expand the box. If I end up putting a Goldline in there at some point, I will want enough room in the box for a custom control.
The track lighting came with the house. The fixtures aren't my first choice, but they illuminate the room nicely so they'll stay for a while.
@@JordanU Awesome 👍
Good job changing the living room ceiling fan not bad considering it's a fantastic installation I enjoyed the video bro
Thanks
Good video, I like the new fan, it looks great
Thanks
I really enjoyed the video bro so much better
Glad you enjoyed it.
The fan you put up looks alot better then the other one, replacement videos i see usually replace the antique one with modern a goofy fan like that one
Sadly, these good quality older models are quicky going extinct.
@@JordanU i know, and the problem with that is people sometimes throw away their fans instead of selling them after replacing them even if the fan still functions
How did I completely miss you moving? awesome new place
Thanks!
good job and awesome servicing video bro hopefully in part 2 where you are installing the switch we can see you run the fan i enjoyed the super long servicing video.
Thanks bro glad you enjoyed it.
@@JordanU your welcome bro no problem at all 😊
I know it has nothing to do with the video, and I am also commenting before watching the whole video, I am sorry. I just wanted to say that I like those orange plastic chairs with the metal frames that you have there.
Those are very old chairs--there will be a video of them eventually.
the reason some of your electrical boxes will have a white serving as a black may be due to something we call a “switch leg drop” which you may be familiar with. if you aren’t, it’s basically the old way of hooking a switch up, where the power is at the ceiling for all the rooms, then only one run of romex is ran down to the switch from the ceiling box, one wire functioning as “in”, and one as “out”. In is obviously the power source, out going back to the fan. this used to be all A-okay with code, as long as the nuetral wire back in the ceiling had black tape or marker on it, or if you chose to do white as your “in”, black tape or marker it in the switch box. I suppose this was done to save money and time, as you didn’t need to run a wire down from the attic into the switch box and then back up.
this method also is why you see a lot of breaker boxes that go by ceiling fixtures, plugs, etc. opposed to rooms or areas.
That could be the case in certain places, but there's some boxes that aren't switched that have nothing but black or nothing but white and none of it's labeled. Someone definitely tampered with stuff at some point, and while it "works", it needs to be replaced so it can be understood. It's not serviceable or modifiable the way it is, and if something were to go wrong somewhere, I'd have no idea where things lead and where to troubleshoot.
@@JordanU oh wow, thats craziness
@@JordanU i wonder if there is metal conduit running around the house to the boxes and the previous owner cheaped out and just decided to use the same color wire for hot and nuetral.
Looks good, what other fans in your collection you’d consider installing in the living room?
A Hunter Passport or a Goldline were close contenders.
I know this video was a couple of months ago but great install, where did you get that ladder that you can change the height on like that?
1:01:56 don’t walk under a ladder you’ll have bad luck, Jordan
That's cap.
I do apologize for spamming to put Casablanca’s in your home.
I feel like this is a better install then Casablanca, it’s more classy, cane blades are beautiful. Sure it’s a Hampton bay, but I think you are right, these are more reliable then Casablanca.
The Casablanca Spirit of Saturn fans are pretty cool looking.
@@anxiousmofo6673 Fr. But everyone hates them because its "Casablanca" and they think it's "overrated".
I have so much to say about this video
1 had to deal with bad boxes already it sucks one time just ended up hooking the light to the joists and used a medallion top cover the box
2 I've done fans by may self on ladders before i'm sure many of us have but when ever i can get help to pass me blades/ globes it is huge time saver
3 That AC sounds fine just some white/pink noise
4 glad that it turned out to be a good fan rated box, though I tend to consider any metal octagon/round box OK for fans if its anchored well considering Emerson held up HEAVY K63 blenderfans with pair of 8/32 though bolts but I would never hold up an antique that way only direct joist/cross block or a Westinghouse safe T brace for that.
5 that Emperor looks like the Moss version, wonder if they made it for Hampton bay at one point
6 Its normal to measure downrods by ID just like pipe since that's pretty much what they are
7 great that it had the red wire for the light already
8 Id have just put a 4 gang box in when wiring the house so you can have wall controls for both fan and light easily as is the other 2 switches would have to be changed to a double switch or the box expanded
9 I hate when that happens with the ball sometimes a bit of sand paper on the inside of the ball helps to make it fit, might have been some weird metric ball size
10 yeah I only rarely make use of the reverse feature on fans.
11 Agree on the medallion a big ornate one would look great till you can panel the ceiling with bead boards
12 Talked about that on discord a 30in rod might work best if you can get one
13 Agree about heat when working and I hate to get sweaty
14 agree that it looks good
Man when are you gonna post again you cool
can i have the old fan?
No.
You should put the st Claire and the Huntington iii’s up in your house
the reason a incandescent bulb fails like that is because the bulb experiences either to much vibration or heat which causes the cement that hold the glass to the base weakins and fails
OK then
for those who are wondering, the old fan is a Hampton Bay Frontera
Thanks for letting any wondering person know.
@@JordanU yep
i knew that fan its an marcopolo
What brand was the previously installed ceiling fan?
I don't know.
I'm surprised you have a TV in the house, as I thought you didn't watch TV.
Couldn't you shut off that circuit, so at least you could be certain the wires weren't hot?
There are many things you can use a TV for besides watching a conventional cable broadcast, which I never have nor ever will pay for.
I'm not afraid of working with it live.
are the lights facing up at the ceiling LED?
No, there is no LED lighting in this house and there will continue to be no LED lighting in this house.
cool
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Do You know what happen when you walk under a ladder? 7 years of bad luck right there. 40:19
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I watched one of your videos a while back about a metal fan and you mentioned that you can mess uo the orientation of a fan how do I fix that because you said it was supposed to rotate left but mine is rotating right please help
You should see a little switch somewhere on the fan. It is usually on the switch housing. Simply set the switch to the opposite position.
I'm not sure what you're referring to.
@@JordanU His fan is reversed.
@@rs12official there was no switch but I figured out what I did I had put the motor back in the wrong way and just had to flip it
@@falloutmaster7378 OK, glad you were able to fix it!
the olderv fan looks better
I agree.
AC noise don't bother me
Thanks for letting me know.
Screw the viewers put the A/C on! 😂
Comical
I like it
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Hello, 75 watt bulb is, too much what, I recommend is
60 watt bulbs.If you put, a 75 watt bulb, in there your
Going, to cause a fire !!
It is not going to cause a fire. Even if the maximum rated bulb for that particular fixture is 60 watts, a higher wattage bulb in all likelihood will not start a fire. It may eventually end up causing damage over time like causing the insulation on the wires to become brittle, but even that is not likely if it is only a slightly too large bulb like a 75 watt. And that is assuming that it even says that a 60 watt is the maximum.
Another keyboard warrior has entered the comments box that knows nothing about the claims they're making.
I had an LED fail like that on me today. Happened to be out of the house when it happened but my ceiling fan was running and the vibrations must have shook the glass loose, it fell and shattered. Now I have led filaments In my ceiling fan and I’m not going to bother replacing it or taking it out because it’s still operational. I’d just assume that’s poor quality control though.
What a piece of junk.
@Coolretrokid 1. It’s on a dimmer switch so CFL isn’t an option. 2 it’s really difficult to find Incandescent bulbs here. 3. The LEDS have not failed to operate yet. If it isn’t broken don’t fix it.
Incandescent and halogen bulbs are still widely available, at least in Florida. Not sure if they are where you live but you should be able to find them easily online.
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