Today, I attempted a DIY home improvement project: installing a ceiling fan. After hours of sweat and frustration, I managed to hang it up, only to realize I'd installed it upside down. Now, instead of cooling, the fan blades are dangerously close to becoming an unconventional chandelier-slash-helicopter. At least I can say my home decor is truly "uplifting." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out how painful it is when your ceiling fan falls on you. FML
Today, my ceiling fan was rocking violently so I turned it off. I stood under it trying to figure out what the problem is, it fell on my face. FML
Today, I woke up to the rickety old ceiling fan above my bed crashing down on top of me. I'm fine, however I am now grounded until I can buy a new ceiling fan to replace the one I "broke". FML
Today, I was moving into my new house. While trying to turn on the light in the bedroom, I realized I couldn't reach the string on the fan. I got a chair, climbed up, reached over, and fell badly. While writhing in agony on the floor, I looked over to see a light switch on the wall. FML
Today, someone put a whole packet of glitter on the blades of my ceiling fan. Too bad I only noticed when I turned it on. FML
Today, I was trying to put some new curtains up. I couldn't make sense of the instructions, so I decided to wing it. I spent a frustrating half hour fighting with it, and just seconds after I succeeded, the curtain rod gave way and slammed straight onto my head. FML
Today, I decided to bring down a very old fan from the attic. I plugged it in, and as soon as I turned it on, tiny spiders were blown all over my room. FML
Today, I discovered that I am just tall enough and my hair is just long enough, to get caught in the ceiling fan if I flip it over to dry it. FML
Today, I finally started a DIY home improvement project I'd been putting off for a while now. As I was drilling into the wall, I managed to hit a plumbing pipe that I didn't know was there and started flooded my living room. FML
Today, I attempted to assemble a piece of furniture that claimed to be "easy to build in minutes." Four hours and multiple arguments later, I realized I had misread the instructions, and half the parts were upside down. I'm pretty sure the furniture won this round. FML
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Anderling 33
…HOW do you install a FAN UPSIDE-DOWN?
Wanderlei Santos 11
many modern fans can be reversed for winter/summer operation. just a switch.
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Anderling 33
…HOW do you install a FAN UPSIDE-DOWN?
LEAE_fml 4
Lol. That's something that I would do.
Wanderlei Santos 11
many modern fans can be reversed for winter/summer operation. just a switch.
RichardPencil 32
There's a switch to change the direction. The blades of a ceiling fan are too small and spin too slowly to generate a meaningful vertical force.
Sdog 6
Agree with the other that the direction is reversible with a switch on the fan. No way you installed the whole fan upside down - one side has wires and attachment points for the ceiling and the other is decorative. Did you maybe install the fan blades upside down on the fan? Still seems really difficult to do as most fans they would only for one way. Or maybe you mean a whole house fan. I did manage to install one of those upside down once. But then I just flipped in over instead of posting about it online.
Ticonderogapencils 17
I was assuming that they switched the negative and the positive which would switch the direction that it spins