Electrical work, at long last
As much as we like bite off more than we can chew, we know our limits- namely anything that could cause lasting permanent damage to our house and ourselves such as electrical work and plumbing.
Thus when the weather turned warmer and our living room ceiling fan remained in a box, and our closet project got closer to completion but still without light, we knew it was time to call the electrician. The ceiling fan we might have been able to tackle ourselves were there one before, but reading up on it and finding out it took specialized brackets running between ceiling joists for stability and realizing it weighs about 50lbs I couldn’t escape the mental image of the fan wobbling it’s way out of the ceiling and crashing through the floor to the crawlspace. After that replayed in my head a few dozen times I realized sometimes, for peace of mind, it’s just better to hire it out.
We started out about a month ago making an appointment with the guy who did our knob and tube wiring replacement and running the electric to the garage to give us the beloved garage door opener. The appointment time came and went with no electrician, phone calls were placed and not returned, and alas a ceiling fan and closet light still on the floor of our living room, doing us very little good. We turned to Angie’s List and got the name of someone else- someone who specialized in ceiling fans in fact, which gave us confidence considering we (of course) had some uncommon model that required quite a few extra steps on installation. Of course that confidence was quickly quashed when he took one look at the fan and said “I’ve never seen one like that before” and eroded even further when he started asking US how to install it. Nevertheless he showed up on time which was already one step ahead of where we were. He was a firecracker too! I didn’t get a good look at him but he’s smaller than we are, about late 60s, early 70s and he came bursting in the door exclaiming “alright, what are we doing.” (Side note: clint knows more about this than I do but apparently he was at one time a dancer in a traveling troupe.) Clint didn’t take to him too well at first as he began tossing his tools on our carefully protected (and easily dentable) wood floors, ordering him around and generally diminishing his hope that the work would be up to our standards, but the latest update I’ve heard from Clint is that the fan is up- and looks awesome. This is a long time coming as we bought the fan in November, and tried at least four techniques over the course of the last 6 months to get the fan blades stained darker to match our woodwork. Impatient as I am, I’m heading home at lunch to catch a glimpse of the wonder of an overhead living room light. We'll get some pictures of the fan, and hopefully coming soon...the before and after on the closet!
Thus when the weather turned warmer and our living room ceiling fan remained in a box, and our closet project got closer to completion but still without light, we knew it was time to call the electrician. The ceiling fan we might have been able to tackle ourselves were there one before, but reading up on it and finding out it took specialized brackets running between ceiling joists for stability and realizing it weighs about 50lbs I couldn’t escape the mental image of the fan wobbling it’s way out of the ceiling and crashing through the floor to the crawlspace. After that replayed in my head a few dozen times I realized sometimes, for peace of mind, it’s just better to hire it out.
We started out about a month ago making an appointment with the guy who did our knob and tube wiring replacement and running the electric to the garage to give us the beloved garage door opener. The appointment time came and went with no electrician, phone calls were placed and not returned, and alas a ceiling fan and closet light still on the floor of our living room, doing us very little good. We turned to Angie’s List and got the name of someone else- someone who specialized in ceiling fans in fact, which gave us confidence considering we (of course) had some uncommon model that required quite a few extra steps on installation. Of course that confidence was quickly quashed when he took one look at the fan and said “I’ve never seen one like that before” and eroded even further when he started asking US how to install it. Nevertheless he showed up on time which was already one step ahead of where we were. He was a firecracker too! I didn’t get a good look at him but he’s smaller than we are, about late 60s, early 70s and he came bursting in the door exclaiming “alright, what are we doing.” (Side note: clint knows more about this than I do but apparently he was at one time a dancer in a traveling troupe.) Clint didn’t take to him too well at first as he began tossing his tools on our carefully protected (and easily dentable) wood floors, ordering him around and generally diminishing his hope that the work would be up to our standards, but the latest update I’ve heard from Clint is that the fan is up- and looks awesome. This is a long time coming as we bought the fan in November, and tried at least four techniques over the course of the last 6 months to get the fan blades stained darker to match our woodwork. Impatient as I am, I’m heading home at lunch to catch a glimpse of the wonder of an overhead living room light. We'll get some pictures of the fan, and hopefully coming soon...the before and after on the closet!
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