Remote Controlled Ceiling Fans - Love Em or Leave Em?

Question

My biggest pet peeve, and an increasing trend I am seeing, are remote controlled ceiling fans. Lost remotes are the biggest pain!

SO any tips and tricks around this? Obviously, securing the remote holder to the wall next to a switch is a must. But what else?

Jules Aton · Answer

Ha a pet peeve here also. I hate the dust collecting, dust dispersing annoying ceiling fans so the remotes are just the icing on that crap cake. Unfortunately I my opinion is an outlier in the STR world so another remote to lose and malfunction is part of the deal. Any suggestions on remote wrangling would be appreciated.

Alessandro Di Luciano · Answer

Remote control anything is a rental is a headache from my experience. If you go remote controlled ensure 1. You have a way to manually run the fan, blinds, etc. and 2. Do not put it in your rental agreement and risk being responsible to fix the remote functionality.

interested in hearing others opinions!

Ryan Kelly · Answer

Hate them and the remotes are very difficult to replace. An old school wall switch is the way to go.

Maranda Tucker · Answer

Ugh I know. And builders are starting to add more "techy" items like this to their new construction. I can foresee future headache for sure.

Maranda Tucker · Answer

Agreed!!

Remote Controlled Ceiling Fans - Love Em or Leave Em?

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