The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXIV

[civvver]

Distance from the wall is mostly irrelevant it may be a bit less efficient, but not end of the world.

Your fan should be reversible. It should be blowing DOWN in the winter, pushing hot air directly down. In the summer you want it blowing UP so that the air gets stirred up but it isn't just blasting heat down on you. There is generally a switch on the side to reverse the direction. Do not flip the switch while the fan is on. Consider that you will want to flip the switch a couple times a year and look at how that relates to the nearby stairs...in other words, do not set yourself up to go bouncing down the stairs over this. That should be about it.

I think that is backwards actually. In the winter you want the fan to blow directly up, because it makes an updraft that pushes hot air back down from the ceiling. Then the reverse is true in summer, you push down so the cool air circulates. This page has illustrations.

https://www.delmarfans.com/educate/basics/what-is-the-proper-ceiling-fan-direction/

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I think that is backwards actually. In the winter you want the fan to blow directly up, because it makes an updraft that pushes hot air back down from the ceiling. Then the reverse is true in summer, you push down so the cool air circulates. This page has illustrations.

https://www.delmarfans.com/educate/basics/what-is-the-proper-ceiling-fan-direction/

Hey, thanks! I should have looked that up.

 

[civvver]

I didn't actually know why you want it that way, I just knew the setting for winter and summer from my instructions so I had too look it up too.

 

[Cutlass]

I bought a ceiling fan and I am taking off a light fixture and attaching the ceiling fan there instead. I was reading the instructions and it says if you're doing that, you should check and make sure the already installed enclosure (or whatever that thing is) can hold 30kg (or some similar number)

How do I check that though? This house was built 25 years ago. I assume it should be able to hold this, but I also don't really trust the people who built this house. So what do I do?

edit: So far I'm thinking I should take off the existing light fixture and see what sort of thing the thing is, and hope there's a serial number on it or some other identification that I could then cross-reference against the internet. I somehow doubt it but I figure I might as well check

BTW, there are old threads for this purpose.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/ask-home-repair-and-improvement-questions.323674/


https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/ask-a-building-trades-professional.492788/

 

[Arakhor]

The first one is seven years old, so let's not use that one, but feel free to start a new thread in that vein.

 

[warpus]

Yeah I remembered that thread but couldn't find it, figured it dropped off the face of the earth

 

[Takhisis]

It's not on the first two pages of OT, which is, for nearly all intents and purposes, the same.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

This band is playing next month at the city amphitheater. They call themselves Metalachi. "The World's First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band Born in Juarez, Mexico and raised in East L.A., Metalachi is four brothers and a sister. Get ready for your heavy metal favorites — from Led Zeppelin to Ozzy to Guns & Roses — a la Mariachi!" Looking at their picture there's a lot of spandex, some in cheetah print. Big hair all over, including two blonde, a silver, and a purple (she's kinda cute). Some major league silver embroidered black velvet sombreros. At least one pair of Kiss style platform thigh boots. Two guitars, a violin, and a trumpet.

I'm thinkin' some sort of culture is being appropriated. I'm sure that someone, somewhere, is probably offended. I just can't guess who.

 

[Takhisis]

The World's First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band Born in Juarez, Mexico and raised in East L.A.

What a narrow superlative.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What a narrow superlative.

I think it just suffers from lack of punctuation.

 

[Takhisis]

Even if it were ‘The World's First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band’ it'd still be too narrow. Reminds me of ‘the loudest band in England’.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Even if it were ‘The World's First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band’ it'd still be too narrow. Reminds me of ‘the loudest band in England’.

I doubt that they sound anything like the loudest band in England. I am intrigued. I might have to go see these guys.

 

[Takhisis]

You do know whom I mean by ‘the loudest band in England, don't you?’

 

[Broken_Erika]

Does they have Thrash-Metal Bagpipes?

 

[Takhisis]

I think that's one of the few instruments with which the Tap have never dared to meddle.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You do know whom I mean by ‘the loudest band in England, don't you?’

Nope. I can't hear them from here.

 

[GenMarshall]

Is it normal to feel a sudden rush of regret for burning bridges and pushing people away during a long depression?

 

[Takhisis]

I mean the Tap. Spinal Tap.

 

[Cutlass]

Is it normal to feel a sudden rush of regret for burning bridges and pushing people away during a long depression?

It wouldn't be uncommon.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Is it normal to feel a sudden rush of regret for burning bridges and pushing people away during a long depression?

In my experience, yes. I just repress it and try not think about anything that happened between the years 2002-2014.........i also avoid any situations that could remind me of it.(i.e. finishing my education, getting a drivers license, going to the mall or movie theater, buying new clothes, eating at restaurants, going to the library, riding the bus, meeting new people.......)