Fans

Oh no, it makes those fan fart noises. ASDFLKJASDFLKJASDFKJDSAKF

Wait, fans are less and less of a commodity? What, are you getting hand-tooled artisan fans or something?

i don't know but there were NOT many options when i went looking today. and everyone has AC.

and then what's with these box fans for the window? do those really do anything? i feel like they just look cute.

"less of a commodity" meaning more of a necessity?
I don't know about the US, but in the UK fans make a horrendous racket. The Tefal on the desk here is so noisy - you'd think that people with heads that big would be able to design a fan that didn't sound like a Lancaster bomber taking off...

I suggest you try shopping at this great new place called Target. They have enough fans to make yr head spin!

cute, but i looked and no, they don't!

They are prob all sold out b'cause everyone else dropped and broked their fans and so ran out to get new ones 'cause it's hot as shit or something I dunno.

so it's the oscillating that makes all the racket, it seems. i'm on the fence when it comes to oscillating in the bedroom. i like it but sometimes you just need the thing right on you.

this thread makes me nostalgic - we have central air now, which we didn't have in Iowa; we use a ceiling fan downstairs, which is delightful, but back in Iowa we relied very heavily on really powerful old 50s oscillating fans that we'd bought either at auction or in thrift stores, and they were really cool. on balance though give me the comfort of central air over the coolness but decreased comfort of our in-house multiple-fan pyramid scheme, despite its charm.

metal blades over plastic ones permanently & always, anyway.

One of my fave dead-fan tricks was when M@rk of W-S fame tried to fix a broken osculating fan and couldn't so's he turned it into a fake undulating record player.

fans get hard to find the later in the summer it gets because stores stock up on them in the springtime for early summer sales and then slack off on restocking. I remember trying to buy one in september once and couldn't find shit.

I have this now:

http://www.vornado.com/products/vintage/silverswan4in.jpg

the Vornado Swan. It's great and has worked extremely well for about 8 years. Three speeds and it's pretty quiet. I did break the little speed knob though so it feels officially vintage now.

i like the testimonial on the fan on their site:
"In 2000 we bought a Silver Swan. Near as I can figure that fan has run (not counting power outage, vacations, and the occasional cleaning) about 61,000 hours. There is nothing wrong with it. It does not vibrate, does not shriek, does not occasionally grind to a halt. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT! We've paid good money for name brands before, but never for anything with this quality.
Of course it may very well disintegrate this afternoon--in which case I would buy another one."

"34. Use fans whenever possible instead of air-conditioning. Fans use far less energy than air conditioners and often can provide the same level of comfort."

http://www.coned.com/thepowerofgreen/100tips.asp

haha someone recently questioned me re how the only things i'm a fan of on facebook are slocki's film co and a fan

that vornado is gorgeous

Fans use far less energy than air conditioners and often can provide the same level of comfort."

Not so much.

^^^ truth bomb. Fans cannot dehumidify the air, and when it's a Cleveland summer with temps in the 80s and 70% humidity, fuck a fan.

That said, my house is old -- built in 1946 -- and does not have central air, nor am I about to drop five large to get central air put in. We have a couple window units upstairs, one in the bedroom and one in a craft/hobby room, and use them only when we're in the rooms. Otherwise, we have these in three rooms of the house:

http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/honeywell-digital-tower-fan-1.jpg

Great fans, when you have them oscillating they can really cool a room.

I have full-on A/C when needed but I prefer to use a WindChaser I've got up on a counter behind my computer if I'm just working at that for a while.

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I have one of them oscillating vertical fans and it's fine for a while, but after a couple of hours it only blows hot air around. Central AC isn't that standard in regular houses over here in Belgium, but portable things are available that have these hideous tubes that you have to hang out the window, I don't know, I'm hoping it doesn't stay very hot for too long.

when it's a Cleveland summer with temps in the 80s and 70% humidity

Dude.

Today's high: 106F
at least the humidity's only 30%, so it won't feel like more than 109F

yeah, temps in the 80s with 70% humidity sound dreamy when you're sweating your balls off in DC. The worst part is that the sweat doesn't go anywhere.

I lived in Fairfax, VA for seven years so I am well acquainted w/ye olde swampy DC area summers. Luckily all our apartments there had central A/C. I kind of miss it -- we never get Ozone Alert Days and corresponding free RTA rides here. :(

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fans are ok until like the third day of heat and they just start circulating that. Still, much better than a/c which is decadent and should only be used by the elderly and invalids.

we looked for a fan today. last week my wife bought a fancy lasko fan/'ionizer' which does jack shit unless you're >4 feet away, I reminded her there is such a thing as August so we're returning it. we already have a tall blizzard fan which does about as well as a fan can do imo but she says it's too noisy, whatevs. it will become my personal fan so I'm all for getting a new one. we didn't find a fan.

the Aloha Breeze is holding up well

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/59438446_513e5ee142.jpg?v=0

Hah. My Aloha Breeze is a piece of shit and the worst-made appliance I have ever owned, but as someone said, it was one of the few options at PC Richards sometime last summer. My AC is in storage with someone else and frankly this summer has given me no reason to get it back...yet.

exactly! you must've gotten it at the same one -- the one near atlantic ave? right by me

I love fans. I love falling asleep with one blowing on me - I do this sometimes when it's not even hot out.

i can't fall asleep without a fan.

After all, air conditioning is a needless perversion of an already perfected system, i.e. the fan. . .

Even in the winter, surms?

yes but my boyfriend gets mad at me. i have to like point it at the wall

(i'm trying to get him to get me a sound machine)

http://www.claeysantique.com/lace/gfx/trtsfansmall.jpg

What about the fans we sell. Antique lace fans.

We have 9 fans going all the time during the summer: 4 pulling air in from windows, 1 floor fan in office area, kitchen exhaust hood (on low unless cooking), exhaust fan in the cat bathroom, small floor fan in the cat bathroom (pointed at the cat box which sits in the shower), 1 oscillating stand fan in hallway pointed into bedroom area so it sweeps over the bed. I am a fan of fans.

it is time.

my house is so fan-happy right now it's about to fly away

My AlohaBreeze crapped out -- the motor still ran but the metal X-base bent and broke and was too weak to steady the weight of the fan assembly if raised more than a third of the way up. Left it at Goodwill like 8 mos ago. Hope yours fared better, surmounter.

The only fans we rluy have in the house are ceiling ones; they are very nice.

i love ceiling fans.

laurel, thank u for the well wishes. i totally understand that the AlohaBreeze might just end up being a fairweather fan, but surprisingly, it's fared well so far. not incredibly, but well enough. i just broke it out again for the first time this summer! we'll see...

i hate aloha breeze. i am never buying an aloha breeze fan ever again in my entire life. lasko is the only way to go. have to get some of those box fans they have for the windows by lasko. that's the fuckin ticket.

I love a noisy fan at night because it blocks out the sound of people fucking in the apartment below and the baby crying in the apartment above me.

Anyone had a chance to try these Dyson bladeless fans?

http://www.dyson.com/fans/

Sure look great, but the expense is something else.

I've felt them in Best Buy. Their fine, but the horrors of buffeting are much overstated.

I just moved to an apartment with ceiling fans. How wonderful. As an addition to A/C, of course.

ugh so jealous

We have two Vornados at either end of the house. Works a traet

I love a noisy fan at night because it blocks out the sound of people fucking in the apartment below and the baby crying in the apartment above me.

― abstract sand patterns, representing water (corey), Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

1. babies
2. ?????
3. people fucking

my aunt just got one of those window box fans by lasko. so nice. i'm jealous.

no aloha.

the aloha breeze just crapped out after about a year. always knew it was a piece of junk. i have had my lasko for about 13 years. i am going to get the lasko box fan.

got it.