Recommended Ceiling Fan Brands???
 

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

"Peter" wrote in message
...

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

When we needed to have a fan installed in our new kitchen recently our
electrician said to purchase anything BUT Hunter - they just aren't as
reliable as they once were and he didn't think they were worth the money.
We wanted a brushed chrome finish fan, under 45 inches, and as we were
already beyond budget, price was definitely a consideration. After shopping
at the big box stores and local electric stores we finally found exactly
what we wanted - at K-Mart for about $40! Of all five fans in our house,
this new one is our hands-on favorite...works great, quiet, and no shimmy.
Of course, YMMV!

Liz

I just installed a Litex brand "Vortex Hugger" 36 inch model last week
in my bedroom. It's a cheapie....around $19.99 but I've been
pleasantly surprised. Relatively quiet operation, very little wobble,
cools a small room fine on low or medium. The light kit is
disappointing, though. Only rated for a single 60 watt bulb. I'm
running it without the globe, and with a 100 watt bulb.

The Hampton Bay brand is made by several manufacturers and some of them are
excellent and reasonably priced. MILO Hunter is garbage, however Casablanca
intellitouch fans are probably the best fan you can buy (also owned by
Hunter)



"Peter" wrote in message
...

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

Peter, 8/1/2005, 10:22:55 PM, wrote:


I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

I installed a Hampton Bay and a Hunter three years ago. They run
constantly 9 months out of the year. The Hunter is still quiet, the
Hampton Bay is making motor noises even though it has no rod extension
and doesn't wobble whatsoever. I have a Hunter in the great room that
has been running nearly constantly for fifteen years and has begun to
make some slight ticking noises recently.

--
"I miss. I miss. I miss. I make."
Seve Ballesteros describing his four-putt at Augusta's No. 16 in 1988.

"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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The Hampton Bay brand is made by several manufacturers and some of them
are excellent and reasonably priced. MILO Hunter is garbage, however
Casablanca intellitouch fans are probably the best fan you can buy (also
owned by Hunter)

I'll second the vote for Casablanca. The 10 year old unit in my previous
home is still absolutely silent when running, except for the sound of the
blades moving through the air when it's turned on high. The Hunter which
came with my current house is a noisy piece of crap - some sort of weird
ticking noise as it revolves. And, not very well balanced. The thing
wobbles.

On Tue 02 Aug 2005 03:48:05a, RBM wrote in alt.home.repair:

The Hampton Bay brand is made by several manufacturers and some of them
are excellent and reasonably priced. MILO Hunter is garbage, however
Casablanca intellitouch fans are probably the best fan you can buy (also
owned by Hunter)

Well, cheap is cheap, and some manufacturer's make nothing but cheap fans
that are nothing but garbage. OTOH, Hunter was one of the first ceiling
fan manufacturers, dating back to the late 1800s when many fans were even
water powered. Hunter finally addressed the mass market and does build
some very inexpensive fans of what I consider dubious quality. However,
the Hunter Original Classic fan is one of the best fans built today, bar
none.

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"Peter" wrote in message
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I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter






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On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:22:55 -0400, Peter wrote:

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Our three current ceiling fans are all Hunter, one is ~10 years old,
another ~ 7 years old, the other ~4 years old. The newest fan
developed a hum about a year after purchase. Hunter responded promptly
to e-mail, determined the fan was defective, and immediately sent a
replacement, a better fan than the original. I've had several other
Hunter fans in previous houses with no problems.

Home Depot owns Hampton Bay I believe (someone will correct me if I'm
wrong g). Before buying the newest Hunter (from Lowes) we bought a
Hampton Bay, not a bottom of the line. Air output was lousy and it
seemed cheaply made, so we returned it.

Whatever brand you buy stay away from the bottom of the line. And bear
in mind fan light fixtures often give very little light and are the
source of many fan noises. I prefer fans without lights, if possible.

Just my experience :-).

Any good online sources ???

Other than the major manufacturers/retailers web sites, no, sorry.

You may want to check Consumer Reports to see if they've reviewed
ceiling fans recently.

--
Luke
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"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question
about it."
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Over the past ten years I have replaced all the wobbling, humming,
shaking, fans in my house with Hunters. In my opinion easiest to
install and best quality for the money. None of my six Hunters ages
ten years to six weeks, shakes rattles or hums.

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:22:55 -0400, Peter wrote:


I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

"Peter" wrote in message
...

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

I just installed 2 Hunter fans in bedrooms last week. No balancing was
required and they are very quiet. Used Hamptom Bay remotes on both. Warren

Doug Kanter wrote:
The Hunter which
came with my current house is a noisy piece of crap

Yeah, I'd heard N.Y. was installing ceiling fans for the homeless in
dumpsters now.

I'd buy from a store nearby so that you can easily return the noisy,
defective ones. Quality control in ceiling fans seems to be something
unknown to the manufacturers.

Peter wrote:

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

I bought SEARS "cheapies" many years ago.

They run continuously... summer and winter.

Completely trouble-free.

Around year 10, I did oil the fan bearings...



On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:35:35 -0400, "Liz" wrote:


"Peter" wrote in message
.. .

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter and I
suspect Hamptom Bay is a HD "house brand " ...
(my experience is that HD house brands are largely
garbage)...

Any good online sources ???

thanks for your advice and suggestions !!!

Peter

rj

Peter writes:

I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter

Positive I hope? At least that's been my experience contacting
hunter customer support.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

On 8/3/2005 1:52 PM or thereabouts, Todd H. appears, somewhat
unbelievably, to have opined:

Peter writes:


I need to purchase 4 ceiling fans of various designs
and sizes.... which manufacturers would you recommend...

I'm next to a Home Depot which carries both Hunter
and Hamptom Bay... there has been some discussion
about the level of customer service at Hunter


Positive I hope? At least that's been my experience contacting
hunter customer support.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/


Not entirely for me. Although my question about finding a light bulb to
fit the fan I had just installed turned out to be a rather stupid
question. I feel that they should have been able to answer the question
rather than to just tell me, "we don't make light bulbs."

The correct answer (which probably should have been obvious to me) was
to purchase a fan bulb or an appliance bulb which are smaller than the
average Type A bulb. Why couldn't Hunter customer service have told me
that rather than some helpful folks here?

--
As a child, my parents thought I was an idiot-savant.
Now, however, it is rather clear that I'm simply an idiot.