Fan size and sundry things

Did you know that fan size makes a big difference? According to an article that I read yesterday, if you get the right fan size you can reduce your cooling bill by almost 40%, now that is impressive.

Last month, we installed a little 36" fan in our living room, and it has done an adequate job cooling that room off, though the dining room right next door has been as hot as an oven. I checked the measurements of the rooms, and discovered that if I put another 36" fan in dining room, then both rooms would be cooled adequately. So, yesterday I started to put together the fan that we had designated for our bedroom.

I've been wanting to install extra fans for sometime, but it's just one of those projects that are difficult to start. First you have to assemble the motor base. Then you have to turn off the electricity, take out the existing fixture, pray that there is an electric box there AND that it is mounted near a stud and then start hooking the motor to the electricity. Most of you would shrug and wonder why we would worry about a stud. I mean where else would you put an electric box except near a stud? Apparently a lot of different places. The last fan we installed, we had to build a stud next to it because the original fan was mounted on to sheet rock and sheet rock.

So, by the time Tanner got home for school, I had the motor ready to go, and I was actually outside trying to figure out how to open the breaker panel to turn off the electricity. Boy am I glad he came home. He had to show me how to open the panel. I think it would have taken me a good hour to figure that one out. So, it only took us an hour to hook up the motor, attach the blades, the light kit, and check for sparks and faint burning smells. Wow, the difference a fan makes. We actually got our house down to below 80 with those two fans whirring.

Now, I just have to tackle the fan in the back room. It's suppose to be a 60" fan, and it's only 45".

Sundry list of things: our first hibiscus bloom, our first trip tomato, we're trying to get Jonny's room ready for him, maybe try some blueberry picking tomorrow, Reagan prefers her finger to a nuk, and Kate's favorite cartoon is now The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Oh, and another thing about the Texas dialect, try to decipher this phrase, "Fitty is tulles den fittydu." Anyone? Anyone? and the answer is.... "fifty is two less than fifty-two."