Hunter Watson 52" Indoor Ceiling Fan with LED Light & Pull Chain Control, New Bronze Finish - Perfect for Living Room, Bedroom & Home Office

I can tell you with 92 degrees with 37 % humidity in my 19 ft x 7.5 screened in porch with fan blades exactly 79 inches from floor and me almost directly underneath ceiling fan and a table top fan blowing on me from about six feet away while laying in my hammock was still to hot and forced into ac...and yes the blades were turning clockwise to push air down. I have another of these ceiling fans coming and I can tell already with one it wont help. To be honest I felt more of a breeze when a gust of air from outside came through the screen (thinking of installing misters around eaves to help cool air coming in from screens). A little disheartening after spending 3 days running new wire through walls, ceilings, installing switches etc.That all being said I think in a bit cooler weather (lower humidity) it will be much better..its just the dang high humidity that's killing the cool I think :)This is definitely not a "5 minute fan" it will take the average person about 30 minutes to assemble the fan (assuming you read the directions) which I recommend and maybe another 20 - 30 min to install the westinghouse saf-t brace kit assuming you have a normal ceiling ( 1/2 Sheetrock) then another 10 - 15 min to wire the fan to your house wires . You can for sure install this fan without the light kit and it look really nice. has a cool "Hunter, Since 1886" cap for where the light kit would normally go, which fit my rustic themed porch nicely.It is quiet, even on high its not that loud...I mean you hear it but its not over powering. The "new bronze" is what I bought and the blades have a very nice rustic cabin look which is one of the reasons I chose this fan. If you have a rustic theme in the room you'll be placing this fan in then look no further.I did install this in the ceiling with the "Westinghouse Lighting 0110000 Saf-T-Brace for Ceiling Fans, 3 Teeth, Twist and Lock" at first I thought it was going to be super easy installing this through my 1/8 inch thick paneling but quickly I realized the creator of this device meant for it to be installed where you had 1/2 Sheetrock etc. there are 2 black plastic spacers that slide along the inside of your ceiling as you turn it to expand between your ceiling joists. when you slip the junction box it comes with over the bar you will then see the bottom of the box sticks down about 1/2 inch to accommodate for what is on most homes ceiling "1/2 Sheetrock " if like me you have 1/8 inch paneling it will be sticking past your ceiling by about 3/8 of an inch. I had to make my own spacer from a piece of old paneling and super 77 glue it under the bar and on the inside of the spacer to raise it up so the box came flush to my ceiling. After all this it did work what I would rate about 3.5 stars ( for my situation) it was hard to get to line up horizontally straight with my 4.5 inch hole as it got tight it went a bit cockeyed. But after all was said and done, I installed the ceiling fan bracket the fan hangs on and I actually hung all my body weight ( 170 pounds) and it didn't budge.I do like the fan enough i'll be buying 2 more eventually for the inside of the house ( replacing an existing fan by the wood stove and replacing a single light in bedroom)Now a word about hunters customer service. I will make this short but basically my first call was to ask if I can indeed install this fan without the light kit ( due to low ceilings) The representative said she had to look that information up for me..came back and said no you cannot do that with this model. I said, well I had read some reviews on amazon that said you could..To which she said she would look further into it..came back after putting me on hold for a while and said yes you can do that. I had now lost my confidence in her for my remaining questions and asked to speak to another agent to which she tells me to just hang up and call back. ( this way I don't get to answer the satisfaction survey (I found this out later)So I call back and get another agent which did finally answer most of my questions with me having to rephrase my questions often because she kept thinking i was talking about something else ( made me wonder if she was even listening to me) Now as I was installing the hardware to the fan I got to the part talking about sloped ceilings and to turn the hanging bracket toward the peak and "if you cannot do that call the tech #) I called again because I couldn't turn it to the peak on the junction box. I tell the agent this and that the manual said to call if I encounter this...to which I started hearing a lot of "hmm" huh"...then she just hung up. So I installed it without facing the peak and it works just fine. I was pretty surprised that a company 125 years old has not figured out how to get quality customer service agents or at least train them better. They all seemed to be reading from cue cards to me and not have a real understanding of the product they are there to help customers with. The questions I had that the most helpful agent had answered for me were things like how many watts does the fan use without the light kit on low, med, high ( 7 watt on low is what she said ) details of the warranty, will one fan effectively cool a room 19ft x 7.5 ft ( not a clear answer on that)So there you have it, that's my experience with this fan and the installation. I took the time to explain details that I felt could potentially help someone else when buying, installing, or calling hunter customer service. Hope it helps :)This fan is awesome! It was easy to install, it is very quiet and it puts out so much cool air!This is a wonderful small ceiling fan, really moves air and is quite. Love it. Best fan ever.I had it as a five star rating but changed it to a 4. We finally put it together and I got to say out of all the ceiling fans we have put in ourselves, this one was the most difficult. We are not looking forward to installing the second one! Other than putting it together, it is a very nice looking ceiling fan.Some comments and observations based on an installation yesterday [30 Apr '15]:- The outlet box here is fan-rated, but the mounting holes are 2-3/4" apart. The ceiling bracket for this fan requires a minimum of 3-1/8", so I ended up tapping two 10-24 holes in the outlet box. The style of the box allows for that, so I am lucky in that regard.- Also, I added split/lock washers over the flat washers when I secured the ceiling bracket. Prefer those for vibrating conditions.- The diagram for the shipping blocks in the manual is incorrect. Shows only one screw, where the are two. The block and screw in the diagram also don't look like actual ones on the motor body.- I used the standard downrod, so no comments on any variants.- I used a crescent wrench rather than pliers for the set screw to avoid scuff marks.- Only one 8-32 canopy screw was supplied. Luckily, I have a box of random machine screws from break-downs. I had to "paint" the head of the screw with a black magic marker to make it blend in.- The fan blades have different colors on each side. I would have preferred the lighter color, but that side had "distress" marks that looked more like someone mishandled the blades, so I ended up using the dark sides.- One extra rubber grommet and screw supplied for the fan blades.- Before inserting the two switch housing screws, look at the way the switch housing will be positioned when the housing notches are aligned with those screws - primarily the forward/reverse switch.- Before putting the globe on, route the fan switch chain through one of the plastic holes in the metal plate at the bottom of the switch housing.- NOTE: Routing the fan switch chain in this fashion, causes a lot of friction at the point the chain leaves the switch. I'm thinking about how I will address that, as that point is destined to fail in the future.- Because this fan rotates so well, balancing the blades took a while. Put the clip on one blade, fire the fan up to Ludicrous Speed, see how much the fan wobbles, turn the fan off, wait probably a minute for the fan to stop rotating, move the clip to the next blade, and repeat the process. Fortunately, there was a load of dishes to put away, so I was able to multitask.- Once balanced, the fan was pretty stable at high speed. Not sure we'll use it at that speed, as it practically lifts the ceiling it's mounted to in vertical take-off mode when spinning that fast.- Ended up with two extra screws above and beyond what I mentioned, plus a Hunter emblem. Maybe I'll turn that into a head cap for our cat and take her out bicycling.- 03 May '15 Update: One of the two light bulbs burned out last night (very odd marbling effect inside the glass - vacuum leak?). This makes for a dim corner of the kitchen. Yes, I can call some 800 number for a replacement, but my rule for bad-out-of-the-box is it's a negative against future orders. Ordering LED replacements. Down one star.- 09 Sep '15: The pull cord light switch locked up in the ON position in the beginning of August. I replaced the cheap Zing Ear E89885 switch with a super-expensive $3.49 GE switch. One week later, the 3-speed fan switch locked up in Low position. The next morning the motor (even when turned off at the wall switch) rumbled like a cement mixer. Dead bearings.I called Hunter just before heading out for a long Labor Day weekend. They offered to send me a link to a web site for discounted fans - rebuilt? I returned on Monday to find the offer was for less than 24 hours.I have 30+ year old Hunter fans made long ago with quality parts. I appreciate the need to placate stockholders, but I can't in good conscience recommend a Hunter fan until they return to parts made to last longer than the warranty period.Review of immediate installation only - not long-term performance.Bought this fan for a bedroom that is apx 9’ x 12.5’ with 8’ ceiling. Installed with shortest down-rod. Circumference of fan ideal for room size. However the overall height and the “heft” of the fan motor housing and the light shade look about 25% too large. They aren’t in a pleasing proportion to the circumference of the blades. And even with the shortest downrod, this fan mounts lower than I would like in a room with an 8’ ceiling (installed with this short rod, it’s 18” to the bottom of the finial).Also not wonderful: 1) the decorative detail in the lower edge of the motor housing looks like a cheaply-done pressed-in design (like a lot of the cheapo lighting fixtures these days). 2) fan comes with two 60W candelabra bulbs. Not sure if it’s the bulbs or the tinting of the shade, but it throws light equal to one 40W bulb.Complaints out if the way, there’s several good things about this fan:- installation is easy and the fan is well-balanced.- details such as rubber bumpers on the ceiling mounting bracket, and rubber grommets in every screw holding blades, is a detail superior to some other fans and should ensure quiet operation without squeaks.- the way it moves the air is FANTASTIC compared to other ceiling fans we’ve had. Not sure how to describe this. . . can air be moved “authoritatively, yet gently”? It’s actually kinda’ amazing.- absolutely silent operation. Totally impressed.- finished installation routes both chains through the metal surround and finial at bottom of lamp shade. Much neater than the common look of chains hanging down outside edge of the glass.My husband thought the instruction booklet was excellent. Very easy to install and we are not very good diy people! It works like a charm. The light emitted is low because this fan comes with two candelabra bulbs. We replaced it with a 3 bulb light fixture to bring the lumens up to 600-1800 lumens in order to read. We had to buy the glass accessory shades which are also at extra cost. There is a little bit of humming at the highest setting due to moving so much air. There is also a slight wobble at the highest setting which we will need to use the balancing kit to help minimize (included in the box). The details are nice - the light and fan pulls are smooth, the reverse blade is a switch at the top (not a pull chain like our previous fan), easy to accessorize in the future, fan runs quiet at low and medium setting, easy installation, moves lots of air for a 34" fan in a 10x9 feet room. My only request is to have more hunter accessories available for sale. I find that the glass accessory shades, blade replacements, light kits etc..to be quite limited because this is one of the smallest fans we could get for our room size.Buen producto. Pros: Es fácil de instalar, no hace ruido ni lo notas, la velocidad lenta es muy buena para dormir(es súper lenta).Contra: El tamaño de la bombilla no es estándar, viene sin control remoto, trae luz caliente cuando lo que quieres es refrescar.En fin, tiene la garantía de Hunter, son buenos ventiladores. A mi gusto esta adecuado para habitaciones pequeñas. Luce el ventilador por sus colores.Sencillo de instalar y de nivelar. Tiene un instructivo fácil de seguir.Da muy buen flujo de aire en época de calor además que la iluminación es ideal para una habitación.This little fan is perfect for a small room or bedroom. The push of the air is very efficient when installed in a small room. The light bulbs that come with the product are brighter than expected. I think they are LED. Well worth the purchase.