It's happened to everyone at least once in their life. They bring something home in box thats to be assembled at home. Only to discover after the box is opened, that it requires a degree in mechanical engineering to actually put together. So you struggle through and after the task is completed, your left with a smattering of left over screws and bolts and your fingers crossed when you flip the switch. Of course it comes on, but theres always one feature that just doesn't work right. Sound familiar???
A Circus High-Wire Juggling Act In Your Own Living Room
Now have you ever tried installing a ceiling fan? Standing on the top of a ladder, holding the damn thing up with one hand with a screw driver in the other, while someone on the ground franticly reads off the instructions. Don't kid yourself, because it can be hell-on-earth and many a fan has been dropped to the floor due to complete arm exhaustion. Also remember that after it's all done, the lights have to work in three phases and the fan has to function in three speed modes. Good luck!
There Is Definitly Room For Improvment
Okay! Now hand me up those two screws, the little coupler deal, the wire cutters, that housing thing and a pistol so I can shoot myself in the head
So now the Hampton Bay Fan Company has come out with what they call the “Quick Connect System.” I haven't tried it but I can tell you after personally installing several ceiling fans, that there were several areas where the process could be made far more simple. For instance with all the fans that I installed, surprisingly little of the total construction is done on the floor. As I recall it was all done in increments from the top of a ladder, “one step at a time.”
Hampton Bay Fan Company Introduces a “User Friendly” Installation System
Hampton Bay Fan Company touts their quick connect system as requirement fewer tools, so I can only assume that they have also figured out a way to also at least “partially” assemble these fans on the floor as well. Even so, any type of snap together mechanisms that are incorporated into this new system can also only be of help. Maybe some executive of Hampton Bay Fan Company had to install a ceiling fan one day back and found out for himself what a complex, miserable task it was.