52" Hampton Bay Gazebo Plus Ceiling Fan in White | Living Room Install

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Hello viewers. Here is a 52 inch Hampton Bay Gazbo or the Gabbzer sealing fan in white.

[00:00:13]This is an outdoor rated fan, so the blades are plastic even though they do have a faux wood grain on there.

[00:00:24]This is an excellent fan.

[00:00:28]I quite like this install.

[00:00:31]I'm not usually one for all white fans, but this is a very nostalgic model, and the objective of this install was to give the room a fresh and light feeling for springtime, which it's finally starting to look nice out again, and this very much does that.

[00:01:10]Since the installation, I did end up removing the second chain. It just didn't look right.

[00:01:33]It does have the waterproof reverse switch encased in rubber and the pole chain is semi-waterproof, I suppose. And there's a a hole in the bottom of the switch cap to drain any moisture that accumulates.

[00:01:51]I'm surprised that's there though because that would probably let a lot of the bugs in.

[00:02:00]There's the infamous the Hampton Bay high stop.

[00:02:07]It is concealed hardware. I don't know if they all were uh but this one certainly is and looks very nice.

[00:02:19]Even though there were some machining issues during assembly which kind of seemed like the quality was starting to taper off. This is still a very very good fan. It's very powerful, very quiet. I don't know if this is because of the blade material or because of the shape, but I've noticed that a lot of these outdoor rated fans have quite a bit less wind noise than other ceiling fans, and this one is no exception.

[00:02:51]The blades are not completely flat and so maybe that's the cause for the reduction in noise. I'm not completely certain. Sometimes very minor changes like that do make a significant difference to aerodynamics.

[00:03:16]The blades are pretty wide and they've got decent pitch to them.

[00:03:21]Definitely a good performing fan.

[00:03:24]The down rod is the wrong size.

[00:03:29]Hopefully that's coming in clear on the video.

[00:03:35]The down rod is a half inch. It calls for a 3/4.

[00:03:42]It actually looks fine even though it's not correct, but I will still get a proper 3/4 in rod.

[00:03:52]It does have some play to it. It will move side to side uh as it starts up or shuts off, but there's no risk of it falling. And ironically, the one of the places I remember seeing one of these, it was the same way. So, here we go.

[00:04:07]We'll start it up on high. And you're going to see that the motor housing will move a little bit on startup.

[00:04:32]It doesn't go very fast, but that is pushing some serious air.

[00:04:51]And it's very quiet.

[00:05:12]That's a significant amount of air moving around over here.

[00:05:29]I'm standing at the computer here and there is an exceptional amount of air drafting across the floor.

[00:06:01]Let's take a CFM reading of this. Get my lousy animometer started up here.

[00:06:27]at Got about 451 I think is what we're going to go I like to check all different areas cuz sometimes it makes a difference.

[00:06:54]480 solid.

[00:07:01]All right, we can go 480.

[00:07:05]That's quite high performance. 480 * 14 is 6,720.

[00:07:13]So, this is this is up there.

[00:07:18]That's well above average.

[00:07:22]And it's so quiet.

[00:07:27]I feel a tremendous amount of air kicking up over here by the couch. Let's take a reading of this airflow.

[00:07:41]That's pretty significant.

[00:07:52]This really works quite good.

[00:07:55]As I always say, this is yet another highly underrated in terms of performance Hampton Bay fan.

[00:08:06]These were not very expensive. They're easy to install. They last a long time.

[00:08:12]They're quiet. And they move a tremendous amount of air. About as much air as more expensive models.

[00:08:23]And this looks really great here in the room. This is the first residential grade white fan that I've installed in here. And it definitely doesn't hold as much of a presence as a polished brass or antiquequy brass fan does.

[00:08:38]But it's not bad. It's not as uh it doesn't disappear into the ceiling as much as I thought it would.

[00:08:46]Something I recently thought of when it comes to testing fans in the summertime versus the winter time is that if I have thick, heavy pants on in the winter and then shorts on in the summer, I'm naturally going to feel more airflow from the fan in the summertime. So, I have to be careful when making subjective observations about these fans because there's a lot of factors that can change the way they feel and that's one that can make a significant difference. But as we saw with the wind speed numbers, this is actually very powerful.

[00:09:32]I have noticed a reduction in stupid comments about these Hampton Bay fans since I started including the wind speed measurements and CFM measurements.

[00:09:43]There's still reasons that you can use to dislike these fans, but you can't argue that they're poor performing because they're not. This is performing in the range of what most people consider high-end fans.

[00:10:05]Now, we'll drop it down to the medium.

[00:10:10]Even the pole chain has a nice quality feel to it. It's pretty quiet. It smoothly operates.

[00:10:20]This is pretty much inaudible at this speed. And this is really how ceiling fans should be in my opinion. Low RPMs but steeply pitched wide blades that still push a lot of air without making a lot of noise.

[00:10:56]278 3,892 CFM.

[00:11:12]Now, quite a drop from high.

[00:11:15]but still pushing a decent amount of air. There's a lot of newer fans that move about this much air and high, which is really pathetic.

[00:11:27]And as far as the air circulation around the room is concerned, I still have a very good draft over here by the couch.

[00:11:36]And I can still see the plant moving by the computer. Not as much. It's definitely toned down significantly, but it is still stirring up the air pretty thoroughly.

[00:11:48]Actually, it's kind of how it's kind of impressive how much air I'm still feeling over here by the couch. Let me see if it's enough to get a reading on the meter.

[00:12:00]And I do have all the windows shut. It's ridiculously windy today. I had to shut all the windows to do this test, otherwise we wouldn't be able to to feel the fan.

[00:12:09]The meter is just barely spinning. It's giving me uh 28.

[00:12:19]Oh, it's g me 153 now.

[00:12:22]Back to 128 or just to 2819.

[00:12:26]So, it's it's definitely a lot less air, but it's still very predominant. I can feel it substantially.

[00:12:33]In terms of the air being felt around the room, I think that this is actually one of the best fans thus far, maybe even topping the quick connect.

[00:12:48]All these fans move the air very differently. This one seems to push uh the air more slowly, but the air carries further. Whereas you had the uh you know this reminds me of is the um the Alura. This reminds me of the way the Alura moves the air very slowly but a large volume of it.

[00:13:14]It's in complete contrast to the SMC KB36 which was very strong. A smaller volume of air but a higher velocity very gusty. This is a very smooth steady air flow.

[00:13:28]It's very interesting how different these fans are. Even though the blades, you know, there's really not a significant variance in the shape, but from fan to fan, totally different performance.

[00:13:42]And the amount of air I'm feeling over here on the couch for how fast this is moving is remarkable.

[00:13:50]Let's go ahead and drop it down to the low now, which is the slowest of the factory speeds. We do have a wall control in here, so we can drop down to an even slower low or an aesthetic low, completely silent on low. And this is how I remember the Hampton Bay fans, always being very, very quiet and usually inaudible in the slowest speed.

[00:14:28]This is about 60 RPM. This is a decent low speed for a stock factory speed. I like a particularly slow low. I prefer like 20 to 25 RPM, but for a stock speed, this is pretty decent.

[00:14:47]Let's see if we can still get a wind speed reading.

[00:14:53]There is still a nice draft coming down from the fan, but I don't know if we're going to be able to get a wind speed reading. It might be too slow.

[00:15:02]Actually, we could, but the meter turned off, so we can't get it for that reason.

[00:15:07]It's back on now. We can get it.

[00:15:20]It's just barely turning. It's like the lowest amount of wind this thing can possibly read.

[00:15:28]It's fluctuating between 19 and uh 28.

[00:15:39]We got 28. Pretty solid right there.

[00:15:45]All right, we'll go with 28.

[00:15:56]392. That can't be right.

[00:16:02]If we do 153, which it was jumping to, that's 2,142.

[00:16:07]That I could believe.

[00:16:09]392 is not accurate. This meter does not farewell with lower numbers. It's just not very precise.

[00:16:17]I am mostly interested in the CFM on high. you know, what's the maximum performance you can get out of it? So, the fact that the meter doesn't work too good in the lower speeds, I don't really care. I don't think it's worth buying a different meter.

[00:16:32]But, I can definitely still feel the air coming down. I don't think I'm going to be able to feel it much on the couch, though.

[00:16:42]No, I don't really feel anything on the couch.

[00:16:49]But if this was in a bedroom above a bed, this would be a completely satisfactory amount of air for me.

[00:16:57]Okay, now we're going to drop down to an aesthetic low speed. So, put the wall control down to low and the onboard controls are on low. So, this will be the slowest speed we can achieve in this configuration.

[00:17:35]This is a little bit faster than I'd like it to be, but this is kind of around the speed that I always remember seeing on the advertisements.

[00:17:45]You can find a bunch of those old Hampton Bay ads on uh YouTube. I don't personally have any on my channel, but there's a handful of them on different channels. And they show the fans running at a nice slow aesthetic low, very similar to this speed. And it kind of makes you wonder why they never built that into the fans. Like the these all in my opinion should be four speeds.

[00:18:06]Three functional speeds and then one aesthetic low speed like this. And obviously Hampton Bay or whatever the you know brand was. All these brands knew cuz Hunter did it too. All these brands knew that people found the the aesthetic low speed attractive. So why not include it in the actual product?

[00:18:25]It's kind of misleading too cuz you see an ad of this fan running at this speed and you get it and it don't run at that speed.

[00:18:48]It's so neat to look at these fans in person after looking at them in the catalog for several decades.

[00:18:58]I read that 2001 catalog probably tens of thousands of times over the years and I've installed so many of those fans here for the first time and it's just really neat to finally see the fans in I particularly like this angle as you walk in the room.

[00:19:36]It just looks like a magazine install.

[00:19:40]It's perfect.

[00:19:44]It's interesting how this ceiling really accommodates just about any style of fan.

[00:20:01]I have another video of one of these fans on the channel from several years ago. It was at a vacation house and that that fan was in a bedroom and it was also on a long down rod like this.

[00:20:18]That was the one that was loose and it would turn when you turned it on. If I remember when I processed the video, I'll put a link to that video in the comment uh the comments box, the description box that nobody reads.

[00:20:35]And then there was also one of these at a hotel that we went to.

[00:20:42]I think it was one of these. I'm not sure. It could have been a Casablanca something or other as well, but something that looked just like this on the on the uh balconies. I'll put a picture of that in here.

[00:20:59]I don't have any videos of that fan.

[00:21:01]That was that was pre- channel days.

[00:21:08]Although I was certainly making videos by then, so I'm not sure why I didn't take any videos of the van.

[00:21:15]Maybe the opportunity just never arose.

[00:21:27]Actually, this is a pretty good low speed now. It's just taking a long time to slow down.

[00:21:49]I don't think I'm going to end up using it with the light this time around.

[00:21:54]It always had the light when it was pictured in the catalog, so that is kind of nostalgic in that sense. But every time I've seen these out in the wild, they never had the light.

[00:22:04]And I really like this fan. I like the motor housing. I like the irons. And the style of light that this comes with kind of hides it.

[00:22:13]So, I think this is one of the models that I would generally prefer without the lights.

[00:22:21]I can still feel a slight draft in here.

[00:22:23]I'm not sure if that's coming from the fans or just coming in from the outside because it's so windy today.

[00:22:34]Uh, no, actually that's definitely coming from the fan. Just ever so slightly though. It's not really enough to be effective.

[00:22:43]Just slightly.

[00:22:52]Okay, we'll spin it back up to high and then I will switch it to off.

[00:23:05]I do wish it came with another um screw like is on the bottom to cover the other chain cuz now there's just a hole in the side of the fan which is not great especially if it's outside. Doesn't really matter in here.

[00:23:23]It's just a cosmetic issue. But if this was outside, you would not want a hole in the side of where the controls are.

[00:23:41]It's impressive how powerful that is.

[00:23:48]And it runs very smooth, too. It's not shaking. It's not out of balance. Clock is reasonable on the blades.

[00:23:56]That's a tremendous amount of air.

[00:24:00]Very, very strong.

[00:24:10]The off these fans were good stuff. I don't know why. Oh, I I do know why. I guess I have some theories, but it's a shame that people trash talk these things all the time.

[00:24:24]There's no reason for that.

[00:24:33]And as I've said before, I would take this over a Casablanca any day. No stupid electronic controls to beep and annoy you and break. No rubber flywheel to break. No stupid dumb hanging mounting system. Hang false fall through canopy to fall and give you concussion.

[00:24:51]That's just a simple reliable fan, just the way it should be.

[00:25:05]And the bearings are still good after sitting in the package for two plus decades. Bearings are still good.

[00:25:12]That speaks to the quality.

[00:25:21]I think these were also available in brown and potentially verde.

[00:25:28]I would not mind finding a brown one for in here. I think that would look pretty nice.

[00:25:36]But this one definitely looks nice here for the springtime.

[00:25:40]really nice fresh light feeling to the room, which is exactly what I was going for with this install.

[00:26:00]That was some really good bearings on there.

[00:26:06]I should have waited to turn that on. I forgot that was going to make that noise. Oh well, no matter.

[00:26:12]Okay, looks like it has come to a stop.

[00:26:15]So, that will also stop the video.

[00:26:19]Great fan. Another excellent economy grade fan from the Hampton Bay Fan Company. Nostalgic, affordable, easy to install, looks great, excellent performance.