First off, this fan is sleek looking, and the soft white paint color helps to visually blend it into my low ceiling, which I like. The light does not hang down and is flush, thus not intruding into the space. The fan is QUIET and moves air beautifully in our 27 X 15 bonus room and the light is bright. The Minka name also helped to sell me on this unit. Unfortunately, the quality control of the fabrication is lacking. The installation was quite straight-forward. My husband is a perfectionist type of handyman and has 30+years of experience in electrical work, so it was not his capabilities that were the problem. The fan motor housing was out-of-round, so when the plate that holds the light was installed, the housing rotated in an oblong pattern, thus hitting the light plate on one side. Yes, the light was installed level and the ONLY way to make it possible for the fan blade housing to spin without hitting the light plate, was to add washers to the interior screws to drop the light plate down below the housing. Now there is a dark air gap of about 1/8 inch between the two. It is visible and not ideal, but it works. Secondarily, the instructions for syncing the fan, light and remote are cumbersome, but doable if you go step by step. Unfortunately, no matter what we tried, the receiver and the remote did not sync. A contact email to the company and a later very helpful phone call to technical support determined the receiver was bad and a new one was being shipped at no charge. We are still Minka "fans" (pun intended) and grateful to tech support, but hope that they step up the quality control in the future.
