Post by Alex K. on Aug 26, 2005 18:24:47 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
Just wondering, but how does one go about the task of snapping up a fan from a restaurant, demolition-bound building/ residential house, etc?
I went to an estate sale today. I'm assuming the owner died and the house is going to be put up for sale soon. When my mom and I walked into the first room off the garage, a four-bladed polished brass GE vent fan greeted us. It was variable speed, cranked way up high. Besides the variable knob, the other thing that struck me was the large bell canopy.
We walked through the rest of the house, and found two identical fans in the dining room and the family room; the dining room fan was on low, low, low....
I am fairly sure they are Codep, model A, from the Vintage Fan's gallery.
A few questions about the fans themselves: what kind of motors do they have? Spinner, K55 or K55 equivilant? Blade pitch? Do they have any particular design flaws I should know about? What would a fair price be on one?
If I can I'll try to get the three (or at least two). However, I have never attempted to persuade someone to have a fan removed from their ceiling to sell to me. How should I approach the subject, and what should I say?
I want to save these fans if I can. The house they're in is a 50's or 60's concrete block design. It was likely a small house in the beginning, but miscellaneous rooms were added on here and there until the layout made absolutely no sense (garage hall is tiny; you have to walk through a bedroom to get to the main hall; every room's threshold is a step higher or lower than the last, etc.). The house is on a very wide lot.
My point is that nobody will buy this house to live in as it is. In our area, Arabic immigrants are buying houses and tearing them down, then building these great horrible stucco-and-brick behemoths that are about two to three times as big as the neighbouring houses. They are terrible eyesores, and usually the families sell the houses after they're finished. Since they're newly immigrated from the Middle-East, they don't have to pay taxes for seven years, but when they sell the houses, they can keep the tax profits from the sale!
Back to what I was saying: That house is going to go to the wrecking ball, no question about it, and I'm not letting those fans go with it if I don't have to.
(I'm not a racist or anything, in fact I like ethnic diversity. I just hate how every Arabic house seems to have 6,000 sq. feet, an ugly facade, and guady front doors that are ten feet tall. Stupid, stupid, stupid....).
Just wondering, but how does one go about the task of snapping up a fan from a restaurant, demolition-bound building/ residential house, etc?
I went to an estate sale today. I'm assuming the owner died and the house is going to be put up for sale soon. When my mom and I walked into the first room off the garage, a four-bladed polished brass GE vent fan greeted us. It was variable speed, cranked way up high. Besides the variable knob, the other thing that struck me was the large bell canopy.
We walked through the rest of the house, and found two identical fans in the dining room and the family room; the dining room fan was on low, low, low....
I am fairly sure they are Codep, model A, from the Vintage Fan's gallery.
A few questions about the fans themselves: what kind of motors do they have? Spinner, K55 or K55 equivilant? Blade pitch? Do they have any particular design flaws I should know about? What would a fair price be on one?
If I can I'll try to get the three (or at least two). However, I have never attempted to persuade someone to have a fan removed from their ceiling to sell to me. How should I approach the subject, and what should I say?
I want to save these fans if I can. The house they're in is a 50's or 60's concrete block design. It was likely a small house in the beginning, but miscellaneous rooms were added on here and there until the layout made absolutely no sense (garage hall is tiny; you have to walk through a bedroom to get to the main hall; every room's threshold is a step higher or lower than the last, etc.). The house is on a very wide lot.
My point is that nobody will buy this house to live in as it is. In our area, Arabic immigrants are buying houses and tearing them down, then building these great horrible stucco-and-brick behemoths that are about two to three times as big as the neighbouring houses. They are terrible eyesores, and usually the families sell the houses after they're finished. Since they're newly immigrated from the Middle-East, they don't have to pay taxes for seven years, but when they sell the houses, they can keep the tax profits from the sale!
Back to what I was saying: That house is going to go to the wrecking ball, no question about it, and I'm not letting those fans go with it if I don't have to.
(I'm not a racist or anything, in fact I like ethnic diversity. I just hate how every Arabic house seems to have 6,000 sq. feet, an ugly facade, and guady front doors that are ten feet tall. Stupid, stupid, stupid....).
All I really liked about the fans were the GE vents, variable speedcontrols, and bell canopies. I can always go to Dan for one of those, when I have the extra money for shipping....