Home Benefits From Ceiling Fans
Ceiling fans are a popular fixture for good reason. Functionally similar to any other kind of electrical fan, ceiling fans have many benefits over their more conventional counterparts.
A ceiling fan is nothing more than an electrical fan that hangs from the ceiling, and optionally includes lighting. Ceiling fans are preferred by many people due to the space savings over the more conventional or portable fans that take up significant floor space.
Air circulation is a primary benefit of a ceiling fan. They are proven to make a room feel at least 4 degrees cooler than without any moving air. When installed over a kitchen dining table, the moving air helps to dissuade flying pests from entering the area.
Colder winter months benefit from a ceiling fan too. The moving air helps distribute the warm air coming from sources like a furnace or heat stove. Moving this heat around the home makes for a more even distribution of warmth.
Air conditioners do a fine job of cooling a home during hot summer months. But the bill for the electricity consumed can be prohibitive. Yet another benefit of ceiling fans is the energy savings on days where the heat isn’t so high that a ceiling fan cant make a room feel comfortable.
Indeed, the cost savings in electrical power are significant. Ceiling fans consume power at the rate of only pennies per day, while air conditioning units can consume power at the rate of dollars per day. Clearly, during spring and fall months, or even summer mornings / evenings, and ceiling fan can suffice for comfort in room temperature and wallet.
It is important to note – a ceiling fan run in the winter for warmth distribution needs to run clockwise to draw air up against the ceiling. Since warm air rises, this gives it a chance to get pushed around and mixed with the cooler air floating around below.
So where did this great idea come from?
Two dudes, father and son – James and John Hunter first invented the ceiling fan back in 1886. It was originally powered by water since there was no electrical system that you could simply plug into back then even though electricity had been discovered more than 100 year prior.
In 1903 the Emerson Electric Co incorporated the Hunters ceiling fan design in their products. Later the Hunter Fan company was spun off bearing the name of the original duo. Since then there’s been a great deal of evolution in design and technology. Today, there are countless ceiling fan designs offered by the Hunter Fan company.
Casablanca modern fans
Casablanca manufactures the most modern styles of ceiling fans available anywhere. The are beautifully crafted and luxurious ceiling fans. Casablanca fans are not inexpensive. Due to their appeal some of the designs can become collectors items. Don’t be surprised if you find these fans costing a pretty penny over other options.
Age has served the ceiling fan well, what with materials and technologies, and all – from water power to electricity, and light weight material blades, the ceiling fan is the most affordable option for temperature comfort going.
Dave Marx
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Tap…Tap…Tap
The drops fell in the basin without haste, unnaturally loud in the deathly quiet of the night. Lara tore her eyes away from the hypnotising sight and looked instead at the inanimate figure above her staring at her with a sly, anticipatory look.
Tap…Tap…Tap
She remembered her days at the orphanage, how happy she had been with Amy, Alicia and the other girls, playing football in the grounds, going for their night time prowls while the matron slept peacefully and once fighting with the neighbourhood boys which had earned the St. Mary’s girls two weeks of grounding and the boys a painful trip to the hospital. However there was no humour in Lara’s eyes as she remembered how, one day, a cuddly little couple had come to the orphanage and said that they loved the gangly innocent-looking child there who looked so left out among the other hardened girls.
Lara had hated them by sight and said so to Amy who had guffawed and made a rude sign at the twosome for Lara’s benefit. However, the pair seemed to be adamant about Lara and the next day, she was taken away to this cloying pink house with its dollhouse features and repugnant smell of detergent powder.
Tap…Tap…Tap
Snapped out of her reverie by the steady noise of the water basin, Lara’s eyes again focused on the evil, rubber object that stared calmly back at her. Here, in this sickly-sweet place they said was her “home”, she had been treated like a tramp at the Ritz. Lara, hold the spoon that way; Lara, don’t take such long strides, act more feminine. I hate you all, she thought suddenly. And as if that wasn’t enough, she was snowed under with those limp ‘toys’ she was supposed to play with. “Come on Lara, don’t you want to play Mrs. Teapot?” the old woman would coo pathetically.
Tap…Tap…Tap
You killed me, you jerks, you made me a living corpse, Lara thought. And now because of you I’ve got to part with this life that had offered so much before you too came and blotted it out. No but I’m not the sort who would sigh and just accept defeat, Lara grinned derisively, if I’m to go, I will take my enemies with me too. The blood glistened off the butcher’s knife, taped between the doll’s fingers as she thought of the two inert bodies upstairs, their throats slit. And now I’ve got to go too, Lara thought miserably.
Tap…Tap…Tap
Lara looked at the elaborate setting she had arranged for her own death. The doll was hanging by a rope, slung over the ceiling fan and it lolled to and fro slowly, as if taunting her. Lara held the other end of the rope and had attached a heavy weight on the dolls’ back, in case it decided to veer of its intended course.
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They and their sickly world killed my soul five months ago, Amy, and today one of their own evil creations will kill my physical self.
Tap…Tap…Tap
If only you knew…perhaps after my death, when you hear about the death circumstances, you’ll understand what they did to know and why I decided to die this way.
Tap…Tap…Tap
The rubber doll seemed to grin widely in anticipation as Lara’s hands trembled on the rope. Lara thought she saw a blood red sparkle in those dead painted eyes of the doll.
Swish! A sharp noise as the knife sliced through air and flesh, the thudding of a cold body and all was quiet.
Tap…Tap…Tap
Lara awoke with a start. She had been having the same dream for weeks, as if it was a dedicated stalker, determined to fulfill a predefined prophecy. Can I do it? Lara thought suddenly. Then, like a sleepwalker, she stood from her bed and tiptoed out of the room, to meet her fate that had been dogging her for thirteen exact days.
Somewhere under the bed, light glinted off the glassy eyes of a rubber doll with a horrible smile on its face.
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Very nicely written. Definitely different than most of the writings on here. Sure there are some rough edges to smooth out, as there are always. So my advice would be to continue on working on this, smooth it out. With a little more work, this could turn out to be a great piece of writing, at least in my opinion.
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I really liked the tap tap tap you did, it’s really creeping me out. But still, write it again. Nice ideas but still…good luck.
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Very Nice!
and the Taps brought me memories of reading Edgar Allan Poe
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As others have said it still needs to be worked on a bit more, but I really liked it, in fact I wanted to read more.
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You may has well have ended with, "but it was all a dream". Her acting out the dream adds nothing. I don’t think the other ‘reviewers’ quite made it through, but dream endings are NOT appreciated. Really, that is an awful ‘twist’. Poor ending to something that could’ve been more than decent. You had potential until then. Scrap the dream and you’ve got something.
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Oh, wow. This is just amazing. There are a few things that you need to fix, one or two grammatical errors, but nothing big.
But I don’t know about the dream ending… it always seems to bug the living daylights out of me, and probably a lot of other people. That twist was very smart at first, but now it is cheesy and annoying. You could have such a better ending!
And the "tap"s… I love those! It kind of adds an eerie feel to it.
I swear, if you work on you writing just a bit, you could end up to be the next Edgar Allen Poe (unless that place is already taken… then you could be the next next Poe!)
I love the very wicked, eerie feel to the story. And the doll sounds kind of creepy-looking, which I really like. (I’m actually kind of afraid of dolls and such because when I was little I say my friend’s doll’s head move when I was at her house… scared me to near death.)
Keep up the good writing. You’ve got talent, kid =]
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Pretty Good
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