Our bedroom upstairs gets warm in the Summer even with the air conditioning. Diane and I have used a fan to help cool the room over the years. But, last Fall, our fan died. Now that warmer temperatures have arrived in Western New York it was time to buy a replacement. We decided on the Costway 18‘’ Pedestal Fan with 3-Speed Oscillating Manual Control (including a Timer and a Swing Head). Even though I’m not “handy,” I ordered the Costway Pedestal Fan from AMAZON (only $36!). It arrived in a few days. With Diane’s help, I was able to assemble the fan. I only needed a Phillips screwdriver. Now, after a week of use, I can report the Costway Pedestal Fan is the quietest fan I’ve ever bought! GRADE: A
Congratulations!
Electric fans are a great invention! Though of course having a (half) naked young lady using her hand-held fan to cool you (and make you hot at the same time …) like you see in some of these historical movies about Egypt or Rome surely wasn’t bad either. 🙂
We put a ceiling fan (Westinghouse, 5 blades, very quiet) in our “summer kitchen” under the roof – that also helps. Yesterday we already had 28Celsius on our terrace under the roof! Tomorrow we’ll have our friend from the US over for grilled vegetables …
Wolf, we’ve had Westinghouse fans, too. But the Costway had great reviews on AMAZON so we went with it. So far, so good…
We have two very similar pedestal fans – I’m pretty sure they are a different brand (Lasko?) – that we also got from Amazon. These we keep in the living room in warm weather to help circulate the air when it isn’t hot enough for the air conditioner (or to spread the air around when we first turn the air on). We have a ceiling fan in the bedroom we use all year long, and have two skinny “tower” pedestal fans to supplement it at night if the heat is on or when it gets hot. I have a couple of table fans (all oscillate) here in the den since we don’t have air conditioning in here. And we have a ceiling fan over the kitchen table.
Fans are great!
Jeff, clearly you and I are fans of fans!
Re those ceiling fans:
I remember seeing them on my visits to the Southern USA and was wondering when they were introduced and what people did before that time …
That’s why I immediately bought the Westinghouse when I saw it here in our “Lampaház” (lamp store).
Totally OT:
To give you an impression of the political/economic situation in Europe – the user manual for this contraption came in more than 20 languages!
From English, French, Italian, German, Spanish to all the Nordic and Slav languages – and even Arab, Turkish and Jewish …
That’s globalisation for me!
Wolf, the instructions for the Costway fan was in English, Spanish, and French. But the instructions were poorly written. Many key steps were missing!
You could check out a lot of these and start a fan club.
Dan, usually I just would walk into Sam’s Club and buy one of their fans.
Update: my mistake. Jackie says we got the fans at Costco. I remember that when we got one of the “tower” fans, a mini-tower desk fan came with it for free.
And yes, they are all Lasko brand.
Jeff, sadly the closest Costco to us is in Canada. It’s not worth the hassle with Customs to buy a lot of stuff there and then try to get it over the International Border so we stick with Sam’s Club and Bj’s Warehouse in the States.
Really?
Do US customs check everybody – I don’t remember anyhing besides a passport check coming back from Niagara Falls over the Rainbow Bridge (One of our most wonderful vacations btw …) or is it that they just look at “poor people” like you whom they suspect of illegally importing cheap stuff from Canada… 😉
Wolf, since the September 11 attacks, U. S. Customs has become much more alert on the borders. More searches, more questions, etc.
I have a ceiling fan in the bedroom and TV room, and 2 tower fans ( one near the computer and the other is an extra I bought to have on hand in case any of the others broke). I love the ceiling fans as they don’t take up floor space, and hope to get one put in the computer room
Maggie, we have two ceiling fans. One is in the living room and the other is in the Guest Room. They work great!
Nice purchase, George! I hope you get years of good use from it.
In addition to central air, we have a ceiling fan in both the living room and master bedroom. Barbara also has a small tower oscillating fan in her quilt studio, but it only gets used in Summer.
Rick, same here. We only use the fans in the Summer when the temperatures are in the 80s or 90s. With all the rain we’ve been enduring, the temperatures have been staying lower than Normal.
Testing:
PS and totally OT again:
We did quite a lot of shopping in the L***i’s at the Niagara Falls outlet on the Canadian side.
wordpress didn’t like this sentence and wouldn’t accept my original comment – strange …
Wolf, WORDPRESS is a very quirky program. And, there’s not much I can do to change it.
George, no problem!
It’s good exercise for my little old brain to find out what part of my comment wordpress doesn’t like! 🙂
Check this out from the Atlantic–for the lolz of course!
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/05/is-this-going-to-kill-me-fan-death-korea/528243/?utm_source=atltw
Deb, thanks for the link! I don’t have the fear that my fan will kill me. But I sometimes wonder if the ceiling will fall on me!