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Customer
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2020
The installation is relatively straight-forward. The issues we had with installing the fan had nothing to do with the fan itself, but instead with having to work overhead in the gable of the attic installing the plywood backing. In fact, the plastic shroud around the fan makes it lighter than the fan it replaced, making it easier to lift and hold in place. The mounting brackets are at slightly different heights on the fan, but we were putting rubber hose washers under them anyway to reduce vibrations, so we just used two washers under one bracket to even them out.It is pulling a nice volume of air and working well. As previous reviewers have mentioned, it is louder than our previous fan, which is more noticeable in the top floor of the house, but we should get used to this and it may even help me sleep better (acting as a white noise machine).
Brittney Vallet
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
Could not be happier! Very stable and surprisingly quiet fan. Installed very easily and works exactly like I imagined. We have the temperature setting in place and you can barely hear when the fan kicks on. Seems to use very little electricity as my power bill has gone down and not up.
Rural Life
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016
Very effective attic vent fan, using less power than most. Some reviewers complained about vibration, but I suspect they failed to align the blades. Visually line up a spot on the housing, which the edge of each blade will pass by. Spin the blade by hand, and see which blades don't pass that spot exactly where the others do. The blades are easy to bend by hand. Do each side of the blades, and put a bit more or less twist on blades which need it. I took maybe 10 minutes doing this, and the result is virtually no vibration. Because of the vibration concern, I also cut some bits from a rubber mat, and used them as spacers (washers) between the fan housing and the wood I was screwing the fan housing to. If I'd had vibration, or get it later, those rubber spacers will absorb most of it. This fan does require wiring to be attached, but it's quite simple. Either use household wiring for a permanent connection, or attach a piece of cord with a 110V plug already on the end. The wiring box has an easy pop on/ pop off connection, revealing 2 wires for the wiring connection, and a grounding screw for the ground wire. The fan doesn't come with the wiring nuts you'll need, but they're pretty standard, and I had multiple packs of them from other purchases (or they're under a dollar for 2 at a store). The thermostat seems to work, though I won't be using it much. I have a fan like this at each end of my attic, connected to a cord with a light timer on it, so the fans are off all night, work all day, and then I unplug them when fall arrives. So the thermostat only comes into play if there is a cold day during the summer, which is rare. This fan comes with small bent out oiling spots above the front and back of the axle. Make sure to mount the fan with those up, and I add oil at the beginning and middle of each summer. If you don't have an oil dripper, get one (maybe $4). With the fan off, you can reach between the blades with one hand to find the oil port on the back side, and then use that hand's placement to guide in the other hand with the oil dripper (much easier than both climbing an outside ladder and getting to the fan in the attic, when you really only have to do one or the other).
Bill Cody
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2015
I've had three of these fans installed in a house in the Southeast. The one I am replacing had a 5 year warranty and was installed in 2005, so it way over doubled the number of years of the warranty. I choose this model to get the 10 year warranty as well as a 5 year labor warranty, although I install these myself. There is a 10 year warranty unit in another roof pitch that is going strong since 2007.These emit a little noise that can be heard in the rooms below, but not an annoyance at all, as most of the noise is heard outside. The noise also lets you know they are working, an advantage I think. I would recommend installing these with a plug, rather than hard wire as it is much easier to replace/rewire in a hot attic.From my experience I would recommend these. The sellers don't publish the warranties for some reason, or the model number so you'll have to go to the Air Vent web site and match the CFM and square footage to match the warranty.
Grumpa
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2012
This is my 2nd purchase of this fan. The first fan is installed in the attic of my Tucson, Az house, and the 2nd will also be installed there. The 1st fan is doing well after 1 month of operation, with outside temps of 105 - 110 degrees, and attic temps much hotter than that. I bought the 2nd fan because I feel that the Tucson house needs much more venting than one fan allows, since the house has 3 gable vents, and I feel that the other two are short-circuiting the venting from my 1st fan.The mechanical thermostat is working as expected, and I don't need to worry about failure of any electronics in the attic's hostile environment.The gable vent fan allowed me to vent the attic without having to put a hole in the roof, which had several detractors: aanother possibility of leakage, and I would have had to get approval from the HOA in which I live (any change to the appearance of the outside of the house needs to be approved).
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