Ceiling Fans

[DrBubb]

We have a ceiling fan, and 90-95% of the time it does a good job in keeping the flat comfortable.

In these times of rising energy prices, it may make sense for others to think about installing one.

If there is any interest, I will try to record some information here on prices.

We bought ours in Wan chai over one year ago, at a lighting design shop.  I cannot recall the price offhand

[mango on the run]

We have a ceiling fan, and 90-95% of the time it does a good job in keeping the flat comfortable.

In these times of rising energy prices, it may make sense for others to think about installing one.

If there is any interest, I will try to record some information here on prices.

We bought ours in Wan chai over one year ago, at a lighting design shop.  I cannot recall the price offhand

Did not realize your sensitivity to energy cost Mine costs HKD830 from a shop in Tsuen Wan, I put it up myself. So far working okay but it is not the type that spins fast to generate strong wind to cool you off. I was told the function is more to disperse the cool air coming out of an aircon unit.

[Poppet]

I'd be interested to know how much they cost to run

[mango on the run]

I'd be interested to know how much they cost to run

thats hard to tell unless you connect a meter to measure its consumption on its own

[Poppet]

Difference in electric consumption before and after having a fan connected or difference in bill using fan to using air con maybe

[Gooner]

We have a ceiling fan, and 90-95% of the time it does a good job in keeping the flat comfortable.

In these times of rising energy prices, it may make sense for others to think about installing one.

If there is any interest, I will try to record some information here on prices.

We bought ours in Wan chai over one year ago, at a lighting design shop.  I cannot recall the price offhand

We had our ceiling fan since Day 1 ... so can't really tell the difference in cost using the air con v/s the fan.  What we do is switch on the aircon to cool down the living room especially on summer afternoons and then switch off the air con and switch on the ceiling fan.

I think we bought the fan from the same lighting shop in Wanchai, DrBubb... a ground and mezanine floor shop.
I reckon it was around HKD 900.

[Zorro]

yeah but what is the amount of the elec subsidy the HK Govt has promised us n the last address by Sir Doald? Is it HK$300 per month?

[Zorro]

u r so clever big monster 

[DrBubb]

AIRCON is expensive
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"Excessive air conditioning places a costly burden on the city. Besides the environmental expense, there’s a very real dollar cost when the power bill arrives each month.

“Air conditioning, particularly in the summer, accounts for about 60 percent of the cost of energy used,” Christine Loh, the founder of the think tank Civic Exchange, says. “Obviously that is a big chunk, and you can translate that into money.”

Residential users tend to turn up the air conditioning at night, when they’re back from work. So they are cooling their properties at the coolest part of the day. But stores and offices need to crank up the system when the sun is at its strongest.

Still, one study in 2005, put together by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, shows that Hong Kong office buildings are the coldest in the world, with an average temperature of 21 to 22?C."

/more: http://www.squarefoot.com.hk/green-living/cost-air-condition