AIBU to buy a ceiling fan with light instead of a normal light fitting?

[Dreamqueen]

We're decorating and only now need to buy a light fitting for our sitting room. AIBU to buy a ceiling fan with a light fitting to help cool the room down? DH says it's totally old fashioned and unstylish whereas I'm sweating and hot & will do anything to cool down Thinking that next year will also have this extreme heat so it'll keep me cool but not in the cool sense.

We got one for our room and it is a game changer! It was from Argos and fairly stylish, clear blades so not overly noticeable and nice and quiet, wouldn't be without it!

They’ve fallen out of fashion, I don’t know why. We had a couple back in the day in our first flat. It would be horrific now with the dust of multiple dogs and me being a shite housewife.

We’ve got one in the bedroom and it’s quite modern, so not that ugly. It’s brilliant on warm nights and cools the room right down. Absolutely pointless In the temperatures we’ve had over the last couple of days though.

Love a ceiling fan

but only in a house with heigh ceilings

I once almost lost my thumb by raising my arms in a drunken dance at someone’s house (who had a ceiling fan) 😮

or avoid parties and/or tall people visiting 😏

I have ceiling fans in both living rooms, as well as aircon. They are part of my house cooling armoury.
Passive cooling first with doors and windows, then fans, air con last.
The back living room is the one with the light, and it works very well, very quiet. One thing, though, you can hear it in the bedroom above, through the floor.

Make sure your ceiling fan has summer and winter settings, I think most modern ones do, well they do in Australia. Summer setting pushes hot air up, winter pushes it down. I use the winter setting to make heating more efficient, very much needed with high ceilings.
I change the settings when the clocks go back/forward, and clean the top of the blades at the same time. You need a ladder to both, so get both jobs out of the way at the same time.

I don't get the aesthetic objections bit, but imagine it's because people aren't used to seeing them, so they "interfere", but then so do aircon units on the wall, and radiators. It's what one is used to.

I have 3, one in the lounge, one in my room and one in the spare bedroom. The lounge one is the best, not sure if it's the positioning or the fan, but it really helps cool things down.

My bedroom one is good (from Amazon, about £60) but doesn't have the reach of the lounge one. I tried to sleep the other way round in my bed to get more benefit from it but I kept having weird half awake dreams and not being able to work out where I was 😂 so I moved back the right way. One of my cats has worked out where to lie on the bed for optimal breeze so is often sprawled out at the end of the bed.

The one in the spare room was from Argos I think and doesn't work. I don't think it was very good when it did work though so got "demoted" from my room to the guest room when I upgraded.

Some still look a bit shit, but I like the look of mine, and like others have said, I'm not massively bothered if they don't look the height of fashion. I'm not too hot at the moment thanks to my lounge one so fuck fashion 😉 Also, I don't tend to look at light fittings when I go into a room (unless they are pendulum ones so more obvious) so are the aesthetics that important?

@Athenajm80 which one do you have in the living room im in the market for another one!

We had one also in our bedroom in our previous house. It was quite modern looking and great in weather like this. Missing it now.

You can get reverse ones. They cool a room in summer, and then you can reverse the blades and they help to heat up the room in winter. I'd get one.

I used to have one when I moved in here. Ripped it out. My portable fan is cooler. Those things don't work well and harbour dust.

We had them in our previous house in the bedrooms and I wouldn't have lived without them. It didn't occur to me if they were in or out of style as they are so practical in the heat! They had lights built in and were very simple and plain so not dated looking.

We have AC now in our new house or else I would have had them installed here too.

I grew up in a place that is like this all summer and had no AC. We ran ceiling fans pretty much from May to September, they worked really well. You have to dust the blades before using them at the start of the summer but it takes ten seconds and then in a hot summer it moves enough the dust doesn't settle.

They are very common where I live (hot climate), ours are on most of the year, fabulous things!

Thank you everyone for your replies and for all the great links. I'm going to show them to Dh & order one today. Even though the temp is due to drop this week having one will be more comfortable even in normal summer weather. The living room gets sun all day. We've just moved in and discovered that all the windows don't actually open. New windows are on the to do list but a fan is a cheaper option at the moment. I'm dreading getting a quote for windows.

We had one on our bedroom for years (moved in and it was there), used the fan part, a couple of times a year. Unless you buy a really expensive one they are noisy and ineffective.

I have family in Australia and they were totally normal there.

Does it really matter that they're ugly if it means you can sleep at night?!

Ours looks a bit like this…i think, I’d have to go and check for deffo

dont generally put it on at night but its handy when its very hot and im getting dressed and putting makeup on

Yes ,ours got us through last night! Dh fitted ours in 2018 in the last heatwave,I've never loved him more!

Get a remote control one,you'll thank me later.

It's the Colours Tioga. Currently £68. When I next have spare cash (probably around 12th of never) I am definitely going to buy at least one more for my room, and possibly one for the kitchen which is always boiling.

We have one and we brought it from our last house. Its a godsend as the front of the house is south facing, so a sweat box without it. Its a silvery B&Q one for £130 ish

My ceilings are quite high as I have a Victorian terraced house so I did have to buy extra pull things for them so I could easily reach the cords. A remote control would be good for when I'm feeling lazy or have a cat on me, but I really like my lounge one and don't want to risk ending up with a crap fan like in the guest room just to try to get a remote control one.

I use mine most of the year as I like having a slight breeze on me. It's reversible but I haven't tried it out, partly due to not really understanding how the blades going in the opposite direction makes it fan warm air not cool air. I have read explanations but my brain will not accept it 😁

Here's a good guide for ceiling fans in the kitchen. Aussie, but still relevant.

rethority.com/ceiling-fan-in-kitchen/

We had them in the bedrooms when we had our ground floor flat so didn't want to leave windows open at night. They were brilliant and really helped keep us cool in the summer.

It's reversible but I haven't tried it out, partly due to not really understanding how the blades going in the opposite direction makes it fan warm air not cool air. I have read explanations but my brain will not accept it

It really works! The other day was very sunny in wintry Melbourne, so the steel roof of my house had heated up (my living room is single storey), I lit the fire and turned on the fans, on winter setting, and instantly a wave of warm air came down from the ceiling. It wasn't the fire, I had just lit the firelighters.

We had one... took it down due to it not looking great but last couple of years regretted it... it worked brilliantly.

Sold it on and the postal service sent me an email saying they are sorry but they destroyed my item 🙄... so I will never forget that fan if only for its bizarre ending.