Yesterday's post over in Chapter 13. Exterior, reported on the installation of the Fantastic Vent Fan.
But I wanted to come back here in "Greatroom" to finish it up; interior treatment and operation.
Over there, I had described how I bought the wrong model and decided to drill flange holes to mount it. Like there, I'm asking you here, to be quiet about all that, as I don't want to void my warranty and the less we speak of it in public, the better. Know what I mean?
Here's without any trim, and the wires were hanging. I simply connected white to white and black to black with crimp connectors. Tucked the wires up inside where they were out of the way.
Now for interior treatment, I had this kind of cool old-school, maybe even vintage, metal trim piece that came on my parts Travel Queen. It had this gold, kind of a hammered, paint on it. Because the rest of our interior trims are squared corners, not the rounded that came with my interior plastic Fantastic Fan trim, we found it just looked better with the old style. So I painted it up in the cream color.
Before.
And after, and with some work done to allow for the wiring.
And used the same screw and brass washer treatment found elsewhere.
But there was still this slot and the empty screw holes for the other mounting style.
So I took the inner trim ring...
...over to the table saw and cut off the outer portions of it, allowing it to fill the slot, the screw holes, and come up to the edge of the metal.
And that's how we did the treatment.
But to show operation, that's a little harder with pictures. I had this idea, that I had used to show video over in my Willys snowplow installation operation, two videos that were kind of fun,
one to a Bob Seger song and the
other to "Lil Willy Won't Go Home, by the Sweet.
So I got Lil' Queeny her own email address and YouTube channel. In
this video you'll see a "fringed sheet of paper" I made to show air movement, when I open the window with the fan was on high. Note too, the change of fan sound when the window opens. We were shocked how much flow there was!
Don't make fun of my scissor work; I was always better in wood shop than arts and crafts. For a little more exotic feel I had been looking for DW's grass skirt, but couldn't find it. I did locate the coconut shells though, and my old headhunter mask! Got them stored in the Halloween box where they belong these days.
