How's it going fellow DIY Hivians? Did you have a good start to the new year? I've been helping my friend flip a house he bought. It was nothing but 2x4s when he got it because it had to be stripped after some serious water damage. I've learned a lot about doing construction working with him. I've done a bit of insulation and drywall, and today I assembled and installed my first ceiling fan.
I came back to the 🇺🇸 just before Thanksgiving and have been staying in Washington State. It's been a long time since I was here, but it mostly feels the same except everything feels super expensive. The food is also super greasy and fattening, so I got fatter than I've ever been in my life. But I had some great Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's food getting there.
I didn't need many tools to get that fan together and up there. I only used the knife to open the box and the electric drill a few times. I got most of the job done with the Phillips head screwdriver.
The fan cost about $45. It also has an adjustable LED light and a remote to control the speed. It can also blow the air upward in reverse for a more natural feel. It probably took me over forty-five minutes to do the first one, but I was pretty quick getting the other two installed.
Instructions? Who reads instructions? I think maybe I read a few instructions for my early NES games, but I just took this fan out of the box and started putting things together without ever even opening the first page of the instructions. I'm sure you guys are all the same when it comes to ignoring the instruction manual, right?
This part seemed easy enough, but actually you can mess things up and put the blades on mismatching.
Anyone who's ever fixed a computer or any electronics won't have any problems with this LED connection.
Now that the fan is together, it's time to mount it to the ceiling.
I've been shocked before and it is not a pleasant feeling, so I always make sure the circuit breaker is off and I check the lines before I do anything. I think if you get shocked on the left side of your body you can die because it will flow through your heart, but luckily most people are right-handed.
Most fans have this little hook so you can hang it while you wire things up and everything, but then you might get stuck with it sticking out, so it's better to have two people do it.
It seems like everything has its own remote these days. I miss my old school PSP because it had an infrared light that could be used as a remote control. I wish it was a feature we had in more phones.
I've been having a lot of fun flipping this house. I'm learning a lot of new stuff that I should have learned a long time ago, but that's what happens when you don't have a dad, right? Now that we've done a lot of work for the day, it's time to take the dogs to the beach. Thanks for reading about my first ceiling fan today. Have a good one.
