[N/A] Whirling Blades of Death

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I have a set of light switches located high on a wall inside a hall closet. None of my family members have known what they did since the house was built in the 80s.

While I had a friend over helping with some sheet rock I wanted to test a theory. I climbed into the attic and called for him to engage the switches. Well I heard a fan kick on like a prop aircraft and noticed the noise kept getting louder. About the time I turn towards the noise I let out a scream of profanity as I dropped to the floor.

This thing swung past where my face was a few seconds before.

I need a new set of boxers and a few beers...
 

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I don't know what I'm looking at. It appears to be a yo yo with a fan attached.
 
Attic fan rusted off it's support ?
 
Looks a little small to be an attic fan. But it does look exactly like a fan in the attic.
 
Matthew said:
Looks a little small to be an attic fan. But it does look exactly like a fan in the attic.
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I bet @ARFlyer is now no longer a fan of attics nor attic fans. ;)

Honest comment on it though: I'd be wondering what ventilation problem someone was concerned about enough to not have enough money to fix the attic ventilation correctly, but would still go hang that silly little thing.

I suspect you've got a serious ventilation problem up there that needs some actual work done, correctly... because whenever you see Harry the Happy Homeowner crap like that...
 
Matthew said:
Looks a little small to be an attic fan. But it does look exactly like a fan in the attic.
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It's an attic vent fan. It's suppose to be inside the Attic vent at the top of the photo. But I don't think the person who installed it never got to that step...
 
ARFlyer said:
It's an attic vent fan. It's suppose to be inside the Attic vent at the top of the photo. But I don't think the person who installed it never got to that step...
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Screws, screw gun, fix it. Attic ventilation problems get really expensive really fast.
 
Ditch the fan and install, connect to, a light fixture, then you will be able to see what awaiting death lurks up there before it mows you down.
 
steingar said:
Old houses always have their secrets...
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It's not just old ones.

A friend went to look at his house being built after-hours, and caught construction workers stuffing all sorts of disgusting things in the walls of his house under contract, and signs of repeated urination on the sub-flooring.

He took photos and went to the builder to complain.

Building company threw a hissy fit that he had gone into the house without a "safety escort" and canceled his contract.

To sell the house for $35K more in a rising housing market.

I'm sure the new owners are quite happy with their purchase.
 
I had to do some repairs a few months ago. After I cut some drywall away from a window, I found a tiny bit of insulation, not enough to do any good, in three of four corners. The fourth corner was stuffed with a trash bag. And there was an old cigarette in the framing.
 
Matthew said:
I had to do some repairs a few months ago. After I cut some drywall away from a window, I found a tiny bit of insulation, not enough to do any good, in three of four corners. The fourth corner was stuffed with a trash bag. And there was an old cigarette in the framing.
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LOL. Did you buy my old house? :) BTDT in the finished basement.
 
I happen to know there is a very good hammer lying in my mother's basement - inside the old walled up coal furnace chimney.
 
when we sheet rocked my dad's old house, we found some really old beer bottles in the wall. I thought it was kinda cool, like a time capsule.
 
StevieTimes said:
when we sheet rocked my dad's old house, we found some really old beer bottles in the wall. I thought it was kinda cool, like a time capsule.
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When we pulled up carpet at one place, someone had written "Smile!" in cursive (that dates it) with a smiley face in the glue under the padding.

I figure a kiddo did it to make dad smile who wasn't enjoying laying carpet.

Made us chuckle after we figured out why the foam wasn't coming up very easily in that area.
 
A house was going up about a mile from us the same time Derrick Thomas, a Kansas City Chiefs player, died a few weeks after a car accident left him paralyzed (2000).

Someone, maybe the framing crew, painted a "DT #58" and a Chiefs arrowhead logo on the bare roof. A week or two later, the roofers shingled over it. Somebody, some day, is going to get a surprise when they replace the roof.
 
ARFlyer said:
I have a set of light switches.....
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This implies at least two switches. What does the second one do?

I'm guessing one turns the fan on and off manually, and the second also turns the fan on and off but a thermostat or humidistat is in series with the fan?

-Skip
 
denverpilot said:
It's not just old ones.

A friend went to look at his house being built after-hours, and caught construction workers stuffing all sorts of disgusting things in the walls of his house under contract, and signs of repeated urination on the sub-flooring.

He took photos and went to the builder to complain.

Building company threw a hissy fit that he had gone into the house without a "safety escort" and canceled his contract.

To sell the house for $35K more in a rising housing market.

I'm sure the new owners are quite happy with their purchase.
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Aint that some siht. That's turrible
 
Skip Miller said:
This implies at least two switches. What does the second one do?

I'm guessing one turns the fan on and off manually, and the second also turns the fan on and off but a thermostat or humidistat is in series with the fan?

-Skip
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We arnt quite sure.... The house never really had any blueprints drawn up.

The blueprints I have are the sample plans from Better Homes & Garden. I asked my grandmother if they had actual plans and she said not really.

That sample house is one story. The one they built is two...
 
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