"Cindy" wrote in message
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We just had a master bedroom added on to our home. The price for the
addition
was fair...not too high or too low. We've done several miscellaneous
things
ourselves that were supposed to be included in the price for one reason or
another...no big deal. We had a ceiling fan put in the room along with
recessed
lights. When the electrician was here, he asked if we wanted a dimmer for
the
lights. We said yes. He said it would be $45 extra which I felt was
ridiculous
but we okayed it. At the same time, he asked if we wanted a wall remote
for the
fan. He suggested that it wasn't necessary since we could control the
speed from
the fan itself. So we passed on the wall remote. We just found out the fan
is
always on high because he didn't install the remote into the fan unit and
there
is no external control on the fan.

You declined to have a switch installed. Now it is his fault? Sorry I do not
see the logic there.
If he chose the fan then maybe you have a issue. I will bet that he just
hung it unless you did.
Please provide make and model of your fan. I have never seen a fan that did
not have a method of switching speeds, the ole pull chain comes to mind.
Some I have seen have slide switches on the housing for fan speeds. Most
have pull chains.

less than 50 bucks at the home center and you can buy a remote control.
Which is the way all of my fans are controled.




Would you just fix it yourself or have the
electrician come out and do the job right?

Thanks,

Cin


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If you can do it yourself and do it safely, do it. If not call the
electrician. Of course you might have a handyman in your area that
could do it cheaper too. Electricians are expensive. I'd never pay
$45 for a dimmer that I can buy for $5 and install in 10 minutes or
less, but I can do the work myself. I just paid $140 to get a tooth
filled. To me that is outrageous for the filling material smaller
than the size of a grain of rice, and a shot of novacaine. It took
the dentist 15 minutes. I wish i could make $500 an hour, because I
know the materials are only a few dollars, but I am not a dentist and
I have no other choice in the matter. I can do 95% of my own home,
farm, and vehicle maintenance and repairs, but there are other things
I just can not do.


The dentist charged you 50 cents for the filling material, a quarter for the
novacaine and $139.25 for knowing where and how to drill.

S1

"Cindy" wrote in message

...Would you just fix it yourself or have the
electrician come out and do the job right?


I would do it myself and do it right (being as I was an electrician at one
time).

If it was my brother doing this (who does not know which end of a hammer to
use), then I would certainly recommend an electrician.

Cindy wrote:
We just had a master bedroom added on to our home. The price for the addition
was fair...not too high or too low. We've done several miscellaneous things
ourselves that were supposed to be included in the price for one reason or
another...no big deal. We had a ceiling fan put in the room along with recessed
lights. When the electrician was here, he asked if we wanted a dimmer for the
lights. We said yes. He said it would be $45 extra which I felt was ridiculous
but we okayed it. At the same time, he asked if we wanted a wall remote for the
fan. He suggested that it wasn't necessary since we could control the speed from
the fan itself. So we passed on the wall remote. We just found out the fan is
always on high because he didn't install the remote into the fan unit and there
is no external control on the fan. Would you just fix it yourself or have the
electrician come out and do the job right?

Thanks,

Cin



would have been better if he did it from jump. Typically you have one
set of wires going to the fan, and the light and fan are both on the
same switch.

What you need now is 1 switch for the motor, and one for the light. So
you probably have to run a new wire. Are you able to do this?

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CL Gilbert

"No, it's not his fault that there's no wall remote. I specifically
said no when
he asked if we wanted the wall remote installed. However, he did not
install the
receiver and there is no other external speed control. It's a Harbor
Breeze
70085. So he basically left us with a fan that only runs on high unless
we
install the receiver which is what he should have done. "

Didn't you check when he finished the job to make sure everything was
OK, before he left? If the fan came with a receiver, then I would say
it should have been installed and he should come back to do it right.
However, every fan I've seen, the remote/receiver was a seperate
add-on. That is the way I'd install any new fan, using the remote and
no wall switcht at all. The only reason I can see for a wall switch is
if the fan has a light too, then you may want one. It also makes the
install faster/cheaper, as you don't need to run wires to a wall
switch, you just need 120V direct to the fan.

Yes but the electrician told them that they could controll the speed by
the fan. So if he said it would do this and it doesn't he should at
least come out and find out if the speed controller is bad or if he
knocked off a wire or something else.

"At the same time, he asked if we wanted a wall remote for the
fan. He suggested that it wasn't necessary since we could control the
speed from
the fan itself. "

If he said this then some responsibility lays with sparky.

We just found out the fan is
always on high because he didn't install the remote into the fan unit
and there
is no external control on the fan.


It is up to Sparky to read the instalation instructions and determine
if the fan will run as he said it would. That is why you hire a
professional Electrician instead of a brother in law who says he can
wire


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Savvy 1 wrote:
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If you can do it yourself and do it safely, do it. If not call the
electrician. Of course you might have a handyman in your area that
could do it cheaper too. Electricians are expensive. I'd never pay
$45 for a dimmer that I can buy for $5 and install in 10 minutes or
less, but I can do the work myself. I just paid $140 to get a tooth
filled. To me that is outrageous for the filling material smaller
than the size of a grain of rice, and a shot of novacaine. It took
the dentist 15 minutes. I wish i could make $500 an hour, because I
know the materials are only a few dollars, but I am not a dentist and
I have no other choice in the matter. I can do 95% of my own home,
farm, and vehicle maintenance and repairs, but there are other things
I just can not do.



The dentist charged you 50 cents for the filling material, a quarter for the
novacaine and $139.25 for knowing where and how to drill.

S1


Not to mention, rent, insurance(s), equipment depreciation, phone and
power bills, maybe an office assistant.....As a small business owner I
can tell you fer sure that the list goes on and on, but I know Mark
wasn't being serious.

But Mark, can you really still do 95% of your vehicle repairs yourself?
If so, you're a better man than me.

I used to be able to do "everything", on cars, starting from the '50s,
but in the last 10-15 years the computers have done me in, I can't
afford to buy the diagnostic equipment for use on just a couple of cars,
and the way they cram stuff under the hood nowadays it sometimes takes
an engine lift just to do a simple job. I was really ****ed off when I
found out that the serpentine accessory drive belt on SWMBO's 1998 Olds
encircled one engine mount and I had to support the engine and
disconnect the engine mount so I could slip it through that gap. There
was NO easier way to do it. Bah!

Jeff

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No, it's not his fault that there's no wall remote. I specifically said no
when
he asked if we wanted the wall remote installed. However, he did not
install the
receiver and there is no other external speed control. It's a Harbor
Breeze
70085. So he basically left us with a fan that only runs on high unless we
install the receiver which is what he should have done.

Cin

Just a comment. I think a remote control for a fan is assenine. Just
another remote to lose or misplace. It's bad enough keepting track of
all the ones for the tvs vcrs dvds and the like.
I'd return the fan and get one that has the controls either on the
fan, or on the wall. Just my 2 cents.

Mark

Actually it is not asinine. I have a remote/receiver on a fan. The fan was
only wired with one 2 wire (plus ground) cable.

The remote controls the fan speed and also controls the light. The remote
never gets lost. It mounts in the same wall box that originally held the
switch.

Got it from HD.

I can't imagine somebody installing the receiver and not doing something
with the remote. I have always see them sold as a package unit.

Charlie

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:40:57 -0400, "Charlie Bress"
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No, it's not his fault that there's no wall remote. I specifically said
no
when
he asked if we wanted the wall remote installed. However, he did not
install the
receiver and there is no other external speed control. It's a Harbor
Breeze
70085. So he basically left us with a fan that only runs on high unless
we
install the receiver which is what he should have done.

Cin

Just a comment. I think a remote control for a fan is assenine. Just
another remote to lose or misplace. It's bad enough keepting track of
all the ones for the tvs vcrs dvds and the like.
I'd return the fan and get one that has the controls either on the
fan, or on the wall. Just my 2 cents.

Mark

Actually it is not asinine. I have a remote/receiver on a fan. The fan was
only wired with one 2 wire (plus ground) cable.

The remote controls the fan speed and also controls the light. The remote
never gets lost. It mounts in the same wall box that originally held the
switch.

Got it from HD.

I can't imagine somebody installing the receiver and not doing something
with the remote. I have always see them sold as a package unit.

Charlie


OK, I didnt know they worked like that. I thought they were handheld
like tv remotes.

They come both ways

Charlie