A few weeks ago, we were at Home Depot shopping for a new exhaust fan/light because our old one was dying. We were planning to buy a cheap one, but I spotted this red one and said, "If technology has advanced to point where we can have a disco party in the shower, that's the one I want!" Upon closer inspection, we learned that it not only changes colors but also has a bluetooth speaker in it! An impulse buy that turned out to be a major project.
Mike crawled into the attic to remove the old fan/light and install the new one. It was quite an ordeal, more involved than he expected, and he got several pokes in the head from nails in the roof.
He asked me to bring him his drill bits. I thought I could handle that, but as it happens, there are a lot of things in the garage that qualify in my mind as potential drill bits. These looked promising, so I passed them up through the hole.
He said those were hex bits (??) so I went back to garage, selected my next best guess, and passed it through the hole in the bathroom ceiling.
Not the right one in there, so back to the garage. Third time was a charm. This nondescript little box contained the necessary bit.
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| Look at this delicious stud! |
With the new fan in place, he started the electrical part of the job, which presented more unexpected problems. Which wire goes where, how to stuff them all in the small space, other things I know nothing about. Eventually everything appeared to work, and we downloaded the app (which has a pretty steep learning curve) and had a little party in the bathroom.
We named her Fan-C, because she is one fancy fan. She has so many options, including a motion sensor that Mike had to figure out how to deactivate so the party wouldn't start every time someone walked by the bathroom.
The next morning, I plugged the space heater into the adjacent switch and suddenly nothing worked. That caused more problems and frustration and involved making trips to the hardware store, seeking advice online and from a guy who knows electrical stuff, and finally ordering a new switch from China. Meanwhile, Mike had his appendix removed and everything came to a halt. A few days ago, the switch arrived, Mike installed it, and now it's hard not to spend all day in that bathroom. I like showering in purple light listening to John Legend.
