A couple of weeks ago I had Erik from Powerhouse Electric install a whole house fan in my home. I had seen a flyer outlining the benefits of this new type of whole house fan, and I was really interested. We live upstairs in a condo and one of the things I've noticed is that it takes a long time for our condo to cool off when we get home. It gets so irritating when I go out to walk the dog and it's nice and cool outside but still unbearably hot in our condo. I hate running our air conditioning because of the expense and inefficiency. It takes a long time to cool our house and it costs a lot to operate. So when I saw this I thought it would be a great alternative for us as it would keep us cool and save us money. I contacted Erik from Powerhouse Electric because he's done awesome work for us in the past, including installing all of our recessed lighting, and changing our outlets, and switches before we moved in. Erik told me it would be no trouble at all to install a whole house fan. He said that he's installed a lot of them recently because of the heat and that he would be happy to put one in for me.
Erik came out and inspected my attic, he checked to make sure I had a sufficient number of attic vents to vent all the hot air out of my attic once the fan was installed. Based on the square footage of my condo he determined what size fan I needed and ordered it. Within a couple days Erik called me and told me the fan was in and asked when I wanted to have it installed. We set a date and time. When it came time for Erik to install the fan, he showed up on time, with all the materials he needed. It took him less than an hour and half to install my fan. I was completely blown away at the results afterward. The fan pulled in so much cool air from outside it cooled our entire condo very quickly. I was able to feel the benefits before Erik even left. It is really awesome because whatever room I'm in, I simply open the door or window and immediately I can feel a rush of cool air in the room. The fan is very quiet, absolutely nothing like the old style of whole house fans that sound like a tornado. When I have my fan on the low speed setting, I can't hear it all, unless I stand right below it, and even then I can just barely hear it. When I have it on high, I cannot hear it unless I'm within 5 or 6 feet of it. I cannot believe how much it does and how little noise it makes. Erik told me I wouldn't notice a spike on my electric bill either, as these fans are extremely efficient and use very little power. I wanted to see if that was really true, so I checked out my hourly usage online and found that my usage rate was unchanged from before the fan was installed. I crunched some numbers and compared my power usage running my air conditioning and the power usage running my new whole house fan from Powerhouse Electric. The results were pretty impressive to say the least. My AC uses 700% more electricity than my whole house fan does. In fact I didn't even see an increase in my average hourly usage while running my new fan.
All of this to say I am a very satisfied customer. I'm thrilled with the product and service I received from Erik at Powerhouse Electric and I cannot recommend them highly enough. Not only is my house nice and cool all the time now, but will be spending far less on my electric bill. It's nice to know within a few minutes of getting home my house will be nice and cool, and I can spend my money on something other than astronomically high electric bills. read more