Todays impossible job

[ProDave]

Letting agent says can you go and look at this fan, it's a bit noisy. They sent a picture.



It's a big un.  Measures 350mm diameter on the bit you can see.

It's a ground floor flat.  When you unclip the grill you find the fan is fitted from above (i.e. the hole in the ceiling is smaller than the fan)  I assume it was put in from above when the old mill was being converted to flats.

I told the agent "I don't see a solution unless the flat above is willing to let you go and take the floor boards up."

It's a double layer plasterboard ceiling so presumably meant to be fireproof, but it has a dirty great hole in it for the fan.

 

[Geoff1946]

How bad is it? Have you tried brushing all the lettuced off the blades and perhaps a bit of WD40?

 

[ProDave]

It's rattling like a good un. The bearings are shot. No hope of fixing or replacing unless you can actually get it out.

It's so bad, the flat above has complained about the noise.

 

[Andy™]

It's so bad, the flat above has complained about the noise.

well that solves the access from above issue

 

[kerching]

It's a cx10

take rim off

remove 3/4 screws

face comes off

bit behind ceiling is circular BUT has 2 flats on it and is designed to come out through the hole

simples

 

[kerching]

spares available

 

[OnOff]

It's a cx10

take rim off

remove 3/4 screws

face comes off

bit behind ceiling is circular BUT has 2 flats on it and is designed to come out through the hole

simples

This'll make @ProDave one of your biggest fans...

 

[roys]

This'll make @ProDave one of your biggest fans...

Well It used to be JCB’s..............

Ex tractor fan

 

[kerching]

Eeeeeeey thaaaaaaaaankkk yowwwwwwww

used to fit loads of them. They make an adapter to go on the back to fit a flexible duct....we used a round plastic washing up bowl 

 

[Sharpend]

Eeeeeeey thaaaaaaaaankkk yowwwwwwww

used to fit loads of them. They make an adapter to go on the back to fit a flexible duct....we used a round plastic washing up bowl 

 More yeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaarh cooooowwwboy! 

 

[OnOff]

cooooowwwboy! 

I seem to recall Fray Bentos pie tins making excellent rain covers for motor cowls many years ago...

 

[kerching]

I seem to recall Fray Bentos pie tins making excellent rain covers for motor cowls many years ago...

Off topic but.....have you tried the Fray Bentos vegetable balti pie??

ALDI seem to have cornered the market on them.  They are really good, but, I do have quite low standards

 

[kerching]

A noisy fan to a veg Balti pie ?in 10 moves!

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[OnOff]

Off topic but.....have you tried the Fray Bentos vegetable balti pie??

ALDI seem to have cornered the market on them.  They are really good, but, I do have quite low standards

I popped into Aldi, they didn't stock them seemingly in my local one!

Edit: As an aside they're apparently baked in Moray in Scotland thus back to the start...must be a recirculating fan...

 

[kerching]

I popped into Aldi, they didn't stock them seemingly in my local one!

Edit: As an aside they're apparently baked in Moray in Scotland thus back to the start...must be a recirculating fan...

In my case I save and reuse the tins ..........must be a recycling pan

eeeeeeyyyyyyy thaaaaaaannnnnnnnkkkkk yowwwwwwwwwwwwwww