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Post by Raymond on Feb 3, 2019 19:55:56 GMT -5
I don’t post here much, but I do follow when I can. Went to a model home with a good friend today who is fixing to move to a larger home with his growing family. They are fan people. Not necessarily quality fans, but fans must be in every room minus the kitchen, and they use fans 24/7/365. This is the south, afterall. I was checking out the fans that the builder provides, and they seemed a little better than average. I didn’t recognize what they were, however. They seemed semi-basic, but moved good air, had quick-install blades, detachable switch cup, but oddly were not dual-mount. Much to my shock, they are labeled Old Jacksonville. I have seen the old 80’s, original Old Jack models. I have also once seen a chain restaurant in VA some pretzel-bracket, more modern fans labeled Old Jacksonville back around 2010. But as far as I knew the company was gone.
When I look them up, it shows as a single store in Houston that sells these fans. How can one store sell fans to a major home builder at such a large scale? Anyone know is it a licensing thing with the name? Is it the same company? I’m running into walls online trying to research it. Just curious since it is such a strange situation.
If they end up closing on this house, it has one of these fans in every bedroom, the living room, the loft/bonus room, and an outdoor version on the back porch. Not bad.
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Post by Noah C on Feb 4, 2019 2:01:00 GMT -5
I don’t post here much, but I do follow when I can. Went to a model home with a good friend today who is fixing to move to a larger home with his growing family. They are fan people. Not necessarily quality fans, but fans must be in every room minus the kitchen, and they use fans 24/7/365. This is the south, afterall. I was checking out the fans that the builder provides, and they seemed a little better than average. I didn’t recognize what they were, however. They seemed semi-basic, but moved good air, had quick-install blades, detachable switch cup, but oddly were not dual-mount. Much to my shock, they are labeled Old Jacksonville. I have seen the old 80’s, original Old Jack models. I have also once seen a chain restaurant in VA some pretzel-bracket, more modern fans labeled Old Jacksonville back around 2010. But as far as I knew the company was gone. When I look them up, it shows as a single store in Houston that sells these fans. How can one store sell fans to a major home builder at such a large scale? Anyone know is it a licensing thing with the name? Is it the same company? I’m running into walls online trying to research it. Just curious since it is such a strange situation. If they end up closing on this house, it has one of these fans in every bedroom, the living room, the loft/bonus room, and an outdoor version on the back porch. Not bad. Yes, Old Jacksonville fans indeed still exist. The models that are produced now are mid-grade and nothing to write home about, but seem to perform well and are reasonably priced. Link to their website: www.oldjack.com/collections/old-jacksonville-ceiling-fansEven though only one store in Texas sells these, they can still be bought directly through Old Jacksonville's website as seen when you click the link. The older version of their "classic" fan (likely what you saw) had pretzel brackets and looked like the picture below. Attachment Deleted |
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Post by Raymond on Feb 11, 2019 22:54:25 GMT -5
The ones that will be installed in the house are the newer version, no pretzel brackets, and with a bowl light kit, and then a patio version on the back porch. Really they aren’t bad. They are not pre-Hunter Casablancas, but they’ll do for them. All the inside ones will run literally 24/7/365, so I can probably give a decent review a year or so from now.
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Post by Noah C on Feb 12, 2019 1:23:49 GMT -5
The ones that will be installed in the house are the newer version, no pretzel brackets, and with a bowl light kit, and then a patio version on the back porch. Really they aren’t bad. They are not pre-Hunter Casablancas, but they’ll do for them. All the inside ones will run literally 24/7/365, so I can probably give a decent review a year or so from now. These aren't pre-Hunter Casas or even the caliber of current Casas (lol  ) but they definitely don't seem to be bad. Even though they likely only have 153×15mm or 153×18mm motors or something similar, they seem to be optimized more for performance than most other fans with those motor sizes, seeing as these are listed to draw around 70 watts on high speed. These should do a good job as workhorse type fans that almost never get turned off. |
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) but they definitely don't seem to be bad. Even though they likely only have 153×15mm or 153×18mm motors or something similar, they seem to be optimized more for performance than most other fans with those motor sizes, seeing as these are listed to draw around 70 watts on high speed. These should do a good job as workhorse type fans that almost never get turned off.