The personal blog of Kenneth F. Innes IV... like any of you actually care. How'd you get here anyway? Someone play a prank on you?
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Office Ceiling Fan
I installed a ceiling fan in my office yesterday. It's something I had
been thinking about doing recently because the room gets about 5-10
degrees hotter than the rest of the house, and with this 100+ degree
weather we're having the rest of the house doesn't get below 84 degrees.
I got the fan for free from someone on NextDoor.com then picked up a bracket from Lowes.
The hardest part was crawling through the attic with it being around
102 degrees outside... a floor-less attic with blown-in insulation and
spiderwebs everywhere. Three times I had to crawl through the attic
because the first time I found that plastic box for the existing light
fixture was nailed into a stud so I had to go back and get a hammer,
then I realized I forgot to bring drill bits so had to go back and get
those. Once the attic work was complete I found that the hole for the
existing light fixture was too small for the new metal electrical box so
I had to enlarge it with a utility knife. By that point my arms were
exhausted so I had a tough time lining up the screw holes of the
electrical box with the metal bracket, but once I got it locked in
everything else was easy. Hopefully this will help cool things down.
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Good job, especially considering the temperature there!
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