Ceiling Fan Air Quality

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HOME BUILDING PROBLEMS - HOME CEILING FAN AIR QUALITY

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Everyone notices a ceiling fan . . .

hOME BUILDING PROBLEMS - HOME CEILING FAN AIR QUALITY

CEILING FAN AIR QUALITY

HOME AIR QUALITY – CEILING FANS

Ceiling fans to improve and maintain home air quality –

Should be a natural part of the Electrical & Lighting Plan

Reference to ceiling fans should also be in the

	Floor plans and, if available,
	Ceiling framing plans

Can be easily identified with

	Ceiling fan symbols
	Fan blade diameters
	Two-way dimensions to fan centerpoints
	Switching

If modified in consultation as to any of its home design metrics, those changes shall be carried back to the plan set, especially the Electrical Plan and Ceiling Plan Schedule

Ceiling fans can be easily gauged for fan blade diameter and, to a lesser extent, downrod length (you might not want those blades so low in certain light flutter - see below - circumstances) at Hunter Fans et al.

Siting ceiling fans

Be careful to avoid light flutter, or stutter – the repeated interruption of a steady stream of illumination at eye-level and below caused by the rapid, periodic passing of ceiling fan blades between a light source and an observable . . . please see Light Flutter hereunder for a fuller discussion in this regard.

	Keep close attention to beam spread of light sources proximate to and above ceiling fan blades
	Consider modifying a lighting layout even ever-so-slightly as a useful variable
	Consider shortening the downrod as a useful variable
	Consider shortening fan blade length as a less useful variable
	Consider raising the ceiling fan in its own tray

This is a typical Ceiling Fan Layout for Bed 2 in the Ceiling Fan Schedule that ends this e-article from Before The Architect

You'll see that there's not much to figure out later on except style and

When it's important to get a particular ceiling fan in a particular location, Before The Architect dimensionally specifies that fan in that place right on the Electrical & Lighting Plan on

	Centerlines and
	Centerpoints and even with
	Dimension statements, if needed

Ceiling Fan in an Electrical & Lighting Plan, Plan View, Scaled

Key: CL=CENTERLINE; D=DEDICATED CIRCUIT [NOW REFERRED TO AS ‘INDIVIDUAL’ IN LIEU]; G=GROUND FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTER-PROTECTED RECEPTACLES OR CROSS REFERENCE TO WINDOW SCHEDULE, DEPENDING ON CONTEXT; HR=HOME RUN; INS FL=INSULATED FLOOR [OVER L0 WORKSPACE]; l=LUMENS; Q=QUEEN-SIZED; QR=QUIETROCK WALLBOARD (FOR SOUND TRANSFER ABATEMENT); SD=DIMMER SWITCH (SINGLE POLE); SDL=DIMMER SWITCH (SINGLE POLE), LIGHTED; S3DL= DIMMER SWITCH (THREE-WAY, LIGHTED); SP=PRESSURE SWITCH (SINGLE POLE); TYP=TYPICAL; UINS=UNBACKED INSULATION (FOR SOUND TRANSFER ABATEMENT); Ø=DIAMETER

Ceiling Fan Schedule

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