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How to Install Ceiling Fans Safely
Ceiling fans have been the answer to cheap and effective air circulation in the room. These fans succeed where the standing electric fan fails to provide. Sometimes, air conditioners are just too expensive and guzzle too much energy. Fans on the ceiling provide just the right balance of ventilation, air movement, and coolness inside the room, compared to the other alternatives. They are quite inexpensive too.
These types of fans are designed to blow air into the room and circulate warm and cold air, alternating them at different heights in the room. Most of these fans blow air downward, creating a breeze and cooling effect on the body, speeding up evaporation of the sweat on human skin. These fans are made with the blades rotated counter-clockwise, so that the blades of the fan cut the air above and redirect them below the fan.
Several other models of fans operate in the winter. Wait, why should anyone need a cool breeze above when it's almost below 0 degrees Celsius? Most rooms in colder areas are naturally heated, so it makes sense to circulate both warm and cold air inside the room. In the winter, the air inside the room stratifies; that is, the warm air rises to the ceiling while colder air, which has a lot more moisture, sinks to the bottom of the room. With winter-specific ceiling fans, the warm and cold air gets circulated around the room, pushing warm air into the floor, and heating the air around the people below.
Tips on Installing Fans. Installing a fan with long-spanning blades to a ceiling is often a tricky and delicate task, not to mention dangerous. The installation almost always involves manually connecting cables to the electrical system of the home, and this can certainly involve a great risk to amateur installers, and is better left to the serviceman alone. Although these fans have a lot of advantages inherent in them, the drawbacks are also far and few in between but dangerous. Having an interior design man is the best option to installing these fans, since they involve a lot of intricacies than just buying an electric fan straight from the retail store.
In fixing the fan to the ceiling, make sure that the blade clearance above -- the distance between the blade fans and the ceiling -- is approximately one foot. The blade clearance below should be about seven feet or higher (or depending on the height of your regular guests). There may be building codes in your city, county, or state that dictate the height of the fan.
In mounting a fan, always remember to turn off the power in your home. No, not just the switch meant for the fan, but the power to your light system's circuit breaker. After determining the center area where your fan should hang, install the mounting portion of the fan that connects the entire fan to a beam or ceiling. Usually, the mounting area is covered with the junction box that contains all the electrical connections and the joints that secure the fan to the beam.
After attaching the decorative ceiling cover, blades, and lights (if the fan has a dual purpose), wire the fan unit with the rest of the lighting system and ground the fan to the metal box. Make sure that the entire installation your ceiling fans is correct and in the right places, or else the fans will wobble when turned on.
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