While Daniel's parents were here he and his father hung the fan in Charlotte's room. What a life saver! She no longer wakes up sweaty and cranky from every nap I give her. On the other hand I've found out that our house is haunted.
Here is why:
All the upstairs fixtures in our house are on pull strings. Annoying and not very good for resale. We wanted to replace the fixtures anyway so Daniel was thinking he'd wire switches behind a picture rail that he'd install and then down to a switch level. When we went to go get our new fixtures we decided to go with fans so that there can be more circulation of the air upstairs, cutting down on our heating and cooling bills. (I have a point here so stay with me.) We found out that you can get remote switches for your ceiling fans. You mount them on the wall just like a regular switch, but they run on a 9V battery so you don't have to run wire down the wall. Whoever thought of this idea was a genius and saved our family much time and frustration. We both jumped on this idea and never looked back.
Dan hung our fan in the master bedroom right away because I thought my body might melt while sleeping up there in the August heat. Everything worked great! The wall mounted remote switch works so well I can't even believe it. We didn't run into anything weird until a few days after Charlotte's fan was up.
Now in the middle of the night her light will mysteriously turn on. The fan doesn't switch on or off or change speed, but the light will switch on. It will eventually wake either of us up and we turn it off for her. Luckily it doesn't wake her up. The weird thing though? It only does this at night and only in her room. Both rooms run on the remote wall mounted switch, but only hers turns on. Strange very strange.
Dan says that there must be something else around here on the same frequency as the remote. Or that something is wrong with the wiring of the fan. You know what I say? I say we're haunted.
Monday, September 08, 2008
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The fan in Mr. Burns living room does this too.
I'll mention your problem to him... because we were thinking it was an electrical short... but you are right... it's a remote - so maybe his neighbors are turning it on?
This happens at my parents' house too, and they even had an electrician come out to see if something was wired wrong. No such luck.
How lucky that Charlotte sleeps through it!
The remote can dim the light so we turn it to dim before she goes to bed. That way when it turns on it's just like a night light. Come to think of it I think she wakes up more when its OFF than when its on! Hahaha! I've never realized that before.
Maybe you should just leave it on, at the low "night light" setting. And then when the ghost comes around in the middle of the night, he'll just turn the light off for you.
spooky
Your dad once had a remote control car that the neighbor's boy could run because it was on the same frequency. Maybe the same thing
I think it's funny that DAD had a remote control car that the BOY nextdoor liked to play with. So classic.
As far as Charlotte goes we started to open her door when we go to bed. That way we don't need to keep the light on, but the light from the rest of the house (read: all the stinking lights that stay on in the middle of the city) can keep her room fairly bright. No need to raise our energy bill since the city will light our house for us!
My friends garage door would go up in the middle of the night. They lived quite a ways out of town and it was scarry when her husband was working in Wyoming. Problem was a small plane flying over in the night. Problem soved=new garage remote.
grandma jane
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