FANFARE

[Mark Joel Lane]

     With the official start of summer,just days away and already having some annoying hot sticky days and nights that I loathe, I've installed a second ceiling fan in our home. We have a ceiling fan in our kitchen above the kitchen table which cools off the kitchen more than adequately.  My wife and I try to avoid using  our central air conditioning which can run up huge electric bills cooling off 2 floors plus the basement which really is a waste since we're hardly down there. The room air conditioner in our bedroom serves its purpose without putting on the central air conditioning at night.

 

     Anyway.  I checked out the local Lowes and Home Depot and other home furnishing type department and appliance stores and purchased and installed by myself, quite proudly, a ceiling fan in our living room just yesterday. There's just one slight difference from most ceiling fans. I installed it on the floor. !!!!

 

     I did this on a day I was home while my wife was working, making only a few minor cuts in our living room carpet. The circulating air feels fine especially when walking barefoot and this placement of the fan seems to keep any creepy crawlies like ants, spiders, and other multilegged undesirables away. The ceiling fan is about a foot above the carpet floor and so far, we've had just two very slight collisions with our feet. I have a bruise on my ankle walking into the fan at night with the lights off and my wife cut open her big toe but  needed just a few stitches at the emergency room of a local hospital and she's fine. In fact, she's got a doctor's note and can be off from work with pay for a couple of days.

 

     While I know,it's not the norm to install a ceiling fan on the floor, the point is,it works just fine. It cools off the room. It can never fall on our heads. it keeps the bugs at bay, even decapitating a low flying house fly, and I'm sure will be a topic of conversation once we have guests visiting and sitting in our living room. I keep a first aid kit and tourniquet near our couch for those clumsy people who don't look down when they walk.  I really think this ceiling fan is the best improvement we've made in our home in years

[darroll]

Me thinks that ceiling fans just circulate hot air back down. Great in the winter time.

Mounting a fan on the floor will get rid of unwanted guests like relatives/friends and bill collectors and not counting the critters. The floor fan will cool the place down though.