The current market
Ceiling fans have become increasingly popular over the last 20 years. As cool as a cost effective alternative to air conditioning in your living room or bedroom kitchen has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry. Ceiling fans are now in many styles and price ranges from very basic to high-end designer styles. They can cost less than a hundred to several thousand dollars and be for all tastes and preferences.
TheCeiling fan manufacturing industry has to offer a very high quality at a reasonable cost-based fans and the consumer market for these products. The explosive growth of sales of fans through the hardware stores retailers like Home Depot, Lowe's lead and others. The days of showroom sales in the mid-to high-Fans can result in variation through the marketing efforts of industry giants.
Marketing data indicate that about 70%all ceiling fans are installed by the homeowner within 2 years of the occupation of their homeland. They replace the existing lamps with a higher grade fixtures and ceiling fans in bedroom and kitchen. The living room is also a popular choice for furniture replacement with ceiling fan and lighting set-combinations in larger numbers installed.
The consumer is told with so many options on the market that today it can be a confusing experience forThe consumer of today. The average buyer down to their favorite hobby market, to their new fan or light or even to choose their choice via the Internet. You arrive at a lighting specialty store or showroom until overwhelmed by the selection of home improvement stores in the courses that have little, if such service or assistance.
The choice of the fans is greater today than at any time in the last 5 to 10 years. Many of themajor brands are also selling products in the home improvement market. Companies like Hunter distribute several models in the Home Depot, this trend is expected to rise further, as they too are gaining market share.
Changing Technology
Many manufacturers have watch out for this trend in the consumer market and the fans that meet the needs of consumers of today are. The easy installation and use of pre-assembled components to speed up the installation oftheir products.
Westinghouse Lighting Corporation has a number of fans who collected all of these needs, and they say, can be installed in 15 minutes on average. The weak link in all of these improvements is the ceiling box itself. This is the component that the fan is connected and must bear the static and dynamic loads of fans measure. It also houses the electrical wiring for the fan. This utilitarian component has been under continuous improvement in the last 10 yearsmore to his "system faster, cheaper and lighter than traditional metal box from yesterday.
The electrical contractor is today with its products, increase productivity and maximize the outcome of his work. They have a large selection of nail-on products that already have the connectors attached to the ceiling box, and all they have to do is hold it in position and nail or screw into a beam or institution is not secured. Many of these fields are thermoplasticsto produce cheap and easy. You also have the advantage that it need not be grounded, thus saving you the extra work required, the metal boxes.
This fact is not in the ceiling panel manufacturers, the ceiling produce are outlet and junction boxes that install quickly and are of plastics, which were less and less work for the proper installation necessitated lost. This has led to the point that there is now a field, the light must be moved only learnedare not backed up on a wooden beam, no locks are needed at all!
The ceiling fan manufacturers, however, may not keep pace with the development of the ceiling box installation practices. They advise consumers about their products to enhance or replace the existing light with a fan box, the ceiling is rated clever, but consumers must respect their installation guidelines?
The installation instructions for many of the fans available today, show a metal box thatScrews through the box and locked up in the box. This is not what in most of the newer construction homes that will save the work of nail-on products to be installed. In general, contractors do not provide closure above the ceiling box with a nail-on product, such as the additional material and labor is not cost effective.
The average nail-on plastic ceiling box is rated to support a static load 35 lbs. You are not even rated fan. This requires that theCeiling box be replaced with a fan rated box before installing a ceiling fan. Fan boxes are rated for loads of 70 pounds a share and are rated for this application. That's easier said than done! The nail-on products do not lend themselves easily be enhanced because the labor-cost savings were applied to the construction of houses even was. In many circumstance leads, on average, at home does not have an attic, is only a narrow space between the support provided.This combined with Blow makes the location of the ceiling box difficult if not impossible, if a fan is suspended on the upper floor.
To install a ceiling fan between floors can be hardly any other choice for this task, because it is a not just from the top or bottom, because the ceiling is accessible on the second floor directly above the ceiling. Cut a hole in the ground or kicking the blanket is not wise just to place blocks above a ceiling box. Medallionsavailable, but the additional costs, labor and time can be prohibitive, especially if the medallion is painted to match the ceiling. The bracket type of products being sold today are an alternative if they are better in theory than in practice, as the old ceiling box must be removed before they are installed. Home Depot has a web page that process the they claim can be paid to take take ½ days.
A Better Way
Following the trends used in the constructionMethods of today's homes is to develop a new and simple method resulted in a ceiling box that increase the assessed a fan box, which is convenient for consumers. Access is obtained through the ceiling box itself with a small angle, which is used in most cases, unused space within the ceiling box itself Two fasteners are driven through the ceiling panel and firmly into the beam or beams with the bracket in position held. This bracket has been shown by independentTesting conducted by a leading product testing laboratory to receive the ceiling box to very large dynamic loads.
It was found that ordinary thermoplastic blanket boxes, which are enhanced in this manner, a permanent loads that are above factors, the requirements of the NEC (314.27D & 422.18) enabled. This NEC building codes for installation of fans and fan-rated ceiling boxes. Another additional feature is that this product is installed only 2 minutes or lesscommon hand tools and allows the installation of a ceiling fan in order to be reached in less than an hour from start to finish. If the Westinghouse fans were with this product could be done in 17 minutes or less to be used! The product can also be used with metal boxes, after 2 holes drilled in the ceiling panel.
Failure modes in product testing revealed that the test plate was being pulled in the ceiling. The ceiling box remains intact and firmly secured to theSimulated truss. A ground lug and screw provided on the bracket to the ceiling, breaking ground "to facilitate, to alleviate any concerns with respect to an energized component outside the blanket box. This product is in the United States of EE Products Inc. as FAN EZE produced under the following U.S. patents 6881900, 6909045, 6965077 & and is responsible for the distribution of wholesale and retail outlets. For more information about the products, please visitwww.eeproductsinc.com or contacting the company directly at 801-254-5144.
Alan P. Halbert
President
EE Products Inc.
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น