I installed my first ceiling fan about a week ago. Took me about 3 hours. It was perfect! You will need cordless screwdriver to make your job way a lot easier. Bought fan at Home Depot for $69. Wish this was on sale last week

You should not pay anyone more than $75 to have a fan installed to existing wiring. Your local handyman is the guy to call to install a fan.

Guys not to burst any bubbles but check teh cfm rating on this. I remember looking at a 39 unit at Home Depot that higher cfm rating and better energy efficiency and also higher blade pitch. Thanks for sharing the deal but I bought and returned this unit when I found regular priced unites at Home Depot that are more efficient and move more air.

Anyone can mount it to the existing box (meant to hold a simple fixture) and it could work for years. Then again, it could come down right away or after some time due to weight (and maybe torque/vibration).

It is not hard to do it right, so please do! Electrical codes require a braced ceiling box specifically designed for the weight/motion of ceiling fans.

Lowe's has some here: Ceiling Fan Braces

Some are even made so that you can do it from below - no attic or "between the ceiling and upper floor" access.

In some cases, you need to get a permit.

I ended up buying 3 of these fans, yes it only moves 4100cf of air on high at 55 watts, which is not as good as my family rooms fan which moves 6300 at 63 watts (also costs $150), but for the price, with the remote, I am all over it! I ended up buying a carpenter pencil for 28 cents, and it printed the $10 off $50, bought 1 fan after another with the receipt that printed. Excellent deal and thanks for posting!

wagnerism said:In some cases, you need to get a permit.
What communist country do you live in that requires a permit to install a ceiling fan?

If anyone figures out a way to put a dimmable CFL into this thing and it be half decently bright, please post! I have looked up and down for a way to put a decent CFL in the ceiling fan and cannot figure out what will work good. One way might be using a circular florescent but I cannot find any dimmable ones. I am thinking maybe getting a bigger bulb like the e27 standard base that way I can go to a 60w or 100w (florescent equivalent) dimmable light but not sure if it would fit. If anyone has some ideas or maybe what will work with the dimmable switch, please let us know and post links. I may end up just not wiring the light into the remote and have to use the pull chain, but it would be awesome to make it work somehow with CFL's. They do have 5-7w dimmable florescents but would like something more decent!

Off subject, but I got heavy duty shelves for almost half off. Sears has their 3 foor wide 6 foot high, 18 inch deep ,4000 lb metal sheving on sale for $59.99. I price matched to the 60, used the 10 off 50 coupon and they even did the 10% pricematch guarantee . With tax , I think they were $ 43.99 with tax total. Normal price, 79.99 on sale for 67.99, so almost half=price.

I also got a 4 light , 4 foot flourecent(T8 bulb) and a white cloud cover on clearance for %25. Normal price is $100 . I bought 2 at a time and used the 10 off coupon for a total of $ 42.70 with tax for 2 lights. This is less than 25 % of normal. Item number is 109570 and they had 2 left at Lehi, UT. I bought 8 so other stores should have plenty if this store was any indication.

Thanks all and OP.

Slickone said:FYI, you can get E12 to E26 adapters, so you can use regular bulbs. Text, Text, etc.
Wonder if regular bulbs would fit in the glass? Maybe if you just used 2 bulbs instead of 3, and bent the sockets in a little?

Easier than that, costco sells a 6 pack of sealed candelabra CFL bulbs for somewhere around $20. Other than these the I've seen the little round ones sold at Ikea. They were very expensive though... I think around $20 for a 2 pack. They were shorter so if space is an issue they might be a better option.
I can't find the item on costco's site, but they look like a normal "soft white" candelabra bulb but with a white plastic base.

There were also LED bulbs at costco, but these were very expensive.

Oh and I can confirm the 10 of 50 coupon is printing out with random purchases... I had to buy a strip of aluminum today and it printed out with my receipt.

You guys looking for dimmable CFL bulbs, have you actually compared the energy usage? The power savings of a dimmer are exponential, not linear. In other words, an incandescent bulb on a dimmer set at 50% brightness does not use 50% wattage, it uses about 25%. Even dimming 10% saves about 20%. And the life of your incandescent will be extended accordingly. So I don't really think (personally) that the cost differential is justified.