WestinghouseLighting 7871500 Contempra IV Four-Light 52-Inch Five-Blade Indoor Ceiling Fan, White with Frosted Ribbed-Glass Shades

The fan arrived quickly and the box was in perfect shape. Inside, everything was factory packaged but the cover over the fan motor assembly has a couple of blemishes in the paint. This is the only reason this fan doesn't receive five stars.The fan runs silently and the lights work as expected.The distance from the ceiling to the bottom of the light is about 14-1/2". It's nice and tight to the ceiling but still moves a lot of air. At 6 feet tall, I have no concern about this fan which is attached to an 8' ceiling.Installation was a pleasure. Westinghouse thought of everything, from thin rubber stickers to isolate metal-metal contact that could squeak or rattle, to gasket material that holds the screw so the blades can be installed without needing three hands. All parts fit as expected.I had previously installed a brand new ceiling box designed for a ceiling fan. I highly recommend a fan-specific box for your installation as well - the fan was obviously designed for this ceiling box. Mine is a Hubbell/Raco Model 294, which can be installed from above (in the attic for instance) or below. It says "for New or Old Work". I digress.The fan has three speeds that each seem to move air differently. Because the fan is tight to the ceiling, flow seems to be compromised a bit, kind of like placing a regular box fan close to the wall. I don't dock the score because a fan that hangs lower would not be acceptable in my application. Low provides gentle air movement; medium throws the air out more, perhaps around 45 degrees out from the center, and high seem to throw the air almost horizontally outward and down the walls. That's fine with me - I can choose what I want depending on where I am in the room.There is no dimming feature on the lights. It was actually a bit difficult to find a good ol' on/off light. In this case I find it beneficial because I can use CFLs or cheaper "non-dimmable" LEDs. Just what I was looking for. If I want light, I want full light. Enough said...For the price and initial quality, I would definitely recommend it. We're considering asking for a replacement motor cover - or, we may just touch it up ourselves. I assume, since the box was not damaged, that the paint was flubbed up at the factory..Enjoy..

I actually bought this fan a long time ago and it was just sitting in the garage... after almost 4 years (Yes I forgot I even had this) I finally got around putting this in the loft area. Typical ceiling fan installation, once you've done a few of these they're all the same. However, the bottom section of the motor where it houses all the wires for the light fixture, was extremely BENT. I don't even see how this is possible during shipment as the entire ceiling fan is protected by styrofoam. This tells me most likely happened at the factory when they packaged it... very bad QA. I ended up bending this back the best I can (as it the ceiling fan was hitting it, that's how bent it was) Other than that, it seems to be working for now. Very quiet fan compared to another fan I've bought recently. The reversible switch is a plus so you can use it in the winter time.

Our house had an old small fan that hummed, and we wanted a bigger one but it had to be white and be a low profile install due to low ceilings. This fan kept coming up high on various review sites. While its not energy star, it just barely missed the criteria as its quite efficient for the amount of air moved. It makes no noise when run on low, but do make sure you insert the little cardboard spacers between the fan blade and the blade arm. I missed them in the parts bag when I first assembled the fan and it hummed pretty good on low. Then I found the little slips of paper in the bag when cleaning up and removed all the blades and slipped those in, not expecting much. Apparently its enough decoupling because the hum stopped. Low profile mount, pretty light kit glass, it does take the candelabra base bulbs but I have had no trouble finding cfl and led options for it. I have four LED lights in it, works great, 8 watts for the four bulbs and about 18 watts for the motor running on low. Since a regular lower efficiency fan in the same price range with regular bulbs would pull 150-200 watts, this is a nice energy saver.

We have had these installed for a few years now. We had an electric company install them when we bought our house. They were great at first and virtually noiseless for about a year. Over the years though, a few of the ones that get regular use have become increasingly noisy, to the point where our bedroom fan’s noise makes appearances in my husband’s dreams, and I can hear it at the other end of the house on even low and medium speeds. It’s a combination of motor noises and rattling noises. The one in our basement den has become loud enough that when it’s on, we can hear the motor through the floor in our main level living room that is directly above the den. Our living room fan has a rattle and click that drives me batty. That’s three out of 8 we purchased. So it could be a mixed bag of what you could get. The two in our kitchen get regular use and they have remained soundless.I like that the pull chains have a heavy pendant with a picture of which function it performs. The light covers are also very sturdy. My kids are a bit rowdy and have (on multiple occasions) somehow or another made connections with their toys and the pull chains. The pull chains have swung wildly and collided with the light covers, which haven’t so much as chipped.A word of caution - high speed is HIGH. I do not recommend having this close enough to bunk beds your kids can lean over the edge and get whacked with it. If you do have it in a small room with bunk beds, I advise turning off the fan and removing the pull chain for the fan - or you will probably end up in the ER for some stitches.