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Ugh. The fans are done, but the walls paid the price.
As I've mentioned before, this spring we paid an electrician to wire all the bedrooms and install lighted ceiling fans, and an electrician to wire and a carpenter to install a whole house fan. The whole house fan is mounted in the ceiling over the staircase.
Yesterday was the last day of work, so everything's picked up and I can assess the damage. And damnit...
There are dirty hand marks ALL OVER all of the walls near the switches in every room + hall, on the side of the staircase, and on the ceiling around the whole house fan. Not that I thought that the guys would get the work done without touching the walls, I guess I just didn't think about it at all. But when I got home last night and looked at the finished product, all I could thing was, eff me, this looks terrible.
We painted those walls (and ceiling) around the stair case a couple years ago with NO intentions of doing it again any time soon, because actually doing it looked like this:
Sucky project. Plus, we don't own the paint board and one of the two ladders necessary to do it.
The carpenter's ladder leaned yesterday in exactly the same way as the one near where my dad's standing -- except he didn't pad it at all. There are huge scratches from it on that wall. How the eff am I going to fix that?
And how the eff am I going to get close enough to brush around the edges of the whole house fan with ceiling white?
Do I just put a roller on an extender and do it as carefully as I can, hope it reaches, and hope for the best?
I'm hoping I can mostly use a magic eraser on the walls, but I can't get close enough to do that on the staircase.
Everything works, and I'm really glad it's done and over -- getting guys in to do the work was a much bigger hassle than I ever expected -- but I hadn't banked on how much fix-up work I'd have after they were done.
/vent
Re: Ugh. The fans are done, but the walls paid the price.
I hope magic eraser does wonders. I wish I had more insight, but I will just say that I totally feel you. I had to repaint a wall in our bathroom after the plumbers scratched it tohell fixing the shower tile and then the place had a guy come out and paint, but um yeah, nope.
Oh and I think we counted the back wall of our closet has about 8 coats of paint on it from all of the plumbing ish that happened for our shower on the other side of the wall.
So, {hugs} and sending you a tall drink
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Wives Unscripted
This situation is the only time I will ever say this:
hire a painter.
It sounds like more of a hassle to DIY than to hire a painter to do it. Especially if you say "I just need you to paint the ceilings and up from where I can't reach". They'll have the equipment.
I don't care if it makes me Nest Trashy, I love ceiling fans. I can't wait to see some PIPs of your new lighting.
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Add me to the club. I think if we didn't have a ceiling fan in the bedroom DH and I wouldn't sleep together. It's just too hot otherwise and we don't have two zone hvac.
Wives Unscripted
Why here you go then!
We put the same fan in 3 rooms - master, office, and spare-room-with-no-real-purpose-yet.
This is the fan:
It's a 52" Hunter low-profile model that I bought on amazon. I really vacillated on white vs. some of the wood tone fans. I prefer the look of the wood and brushed nickel fans, but I was just too afraid that they'd look too big/intrusive, or make the ceiling look low/close. Our bedrooms are modestly sized.
(Some of these rooms have not seen much D&R love yet.)
The fourth and smallest room got the 36" ceiling fan that had previously been in the hall/over the stairs. I just couldn't see a reason to throw away a working fan. Plus I thought 52" was too big for this teeny room.
This is the light I put out in the hall where the ceiling fan previously was:
I am super pleased with it, especially since it was all of about $50 on amazon.
As far as hiring a painter, we might if we can't reach what we need to fix with a roller + extender. The worst is the ladder mark on the wall. Honestly though hiring the electrician + carpenter and getting them (and several others that we tried before them) to COME and do an ESTIMATE and then do a JOB was so frustrating that I'm ready to swear onto DIY for a while. It was honestly more frustrating to hire out! We're having the same experience with a tree surgeon right now too. It's amazing to me. Recession, what?
Is the wall gouged from the ladder? I would try filling them with spackle if they're not too big.
I'm a fan of simple white fans. No need to draw a lot of attention. We replaced the one in DS' room recently (I really need to finish assembling his dresser again and get some pictures of his room to update my bio -- on my to-do list!) and we went with something a little more modern, but white with brushed nickel at the tips of the blades. It looks really cool. Blends into the ceiling until you look up.
And I LOVE that last light. So pretty!
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I think ceiling fans are only TV decorator trashy...those Trading Spaces designers started it.lol
Some people, especially those of us without AC, actually need ceiling fans.
Wait, what? Ceiling fans are nest trashy? Ha, we have them in every room. We also live in a climate where gets 110 and power bills can be $300 a month.
Anyway, we have some of those same fans you posted and I love them. I love the way they blend in and you just don't notice them.
By the way, since they put gouges in the wall, is there any chance you could come back and have them fix it? I mean, spackling isn't that hard and if you have the paint... That's really sh!tty customer service, if you ask me.