Lowe's review: loud enough to not use it 167

Harbor Breeze TILGHMAN 52 inch 5 blade white ceiling fan.#0294980 P.O. #10558-00 Model #WCK52LMW5N Lowes#[protected].20 LBS.DATE CODE 04-14 Two blades broken Maybe because cold and wind off lake erie they didn't get hit with anything. Woke up in the morning and two plastic blades were broken.? The fan work's fine except for the two broken blades. Thank's Don Klima

I need help with how to repair my ceiling fan remote by Harbor Breeze - model R7067T. The fan is at least 5 years old and I would just like to at least try and repair the remote before buying another fan.

Got a harbor breeze fan 1and1/2 years ago. 60 in. fan and light, used it very little. Fan still works, but the light is a strobe light now. New remote and receiver still the same.

I contacted Harbor Breeze about our remote sporadically working and eating through batteries. They took our model number and told me, "I can send you a new remote" they did tell me it's on back order for 4-6 weeks but its better than nothing. Was a bit of a wait to get someone one the line, but it was worth the wait if my issue is solved. I called 800.643.0067 per Lowes' reccomendation.

Best of Luck to you all

Just purchased 5 Harbor Breeze fans for a client, They come with little christmas bulbs and the fan burned so hot and smelled like they were going to catch fire. The little bulbs blew and I replaced them. Oh and by the way Lowes doesn't even carry them, in there stores they use a tiny special bulb, not available to the public. Within an hour, some of them blew again. Scary, I'm waiting to see if Lowes will pay for the electrician to install new ones. They really should not be selling this junk, the rep said, oh we have never had this problem. BS I have to replace 5 fans, before they burn the house down.

I purchased a Harbor Breeze ceiling fan in September 2009. After one year the switch that turns the light on and off would not work. I called their customer service and they sent me a new switch. This fan is in my laundry room and hardly ever gets used. Fast forward to July 2014. The fan will only run on low speed. No more slow medium and fast. Then last week I pulled the light switch chain, there was a loud noise, and it tripped my breaker box. Flipped breaker back on to see what happened. No lights working and fan still on low speed. Called customer service. They advised me that I had to ship the entire fan back to them and they would either fix it or replace it. It would cost me more money to ship the fan than to replace it. Went to Lowes and purchased a Hunter fan. No more Harbor Breeze or Hampton fans for me! A ceiling fan should last more than 3 1/2 years!

I have a Harbor Breeze Saratoga (60") I mounted the blades and found one split at the bracket end

it still functions but I have a slight wobble. I have spent almost 4 hours trying to take that wobble out.

Unsuccessful, but giving up and living with it, I am calling them and trying to get a replacement blade.

Any other way to fix that wobble, ...nice looking fan. Oh I only see maybe 3 different speeds not
the 6 speeds the manuel states.

I bought an older model Harbor Breeze (model #LGF). It is one ceiling fan with two motors on each end and a light fixture in the middle. There are four blades under the motors. This one is pewter (silver) in color and chrome metal rods connecting the light and motors. Lowe's and Harbor Breeze customer service tells me that they can NOT help me with any parts unless I can give them an item number. Can ANY ONE help me with an item number for this fan? Contact me at "awash2722@yahoo.com" my name is Tony.

I bought two Harbor Breeze fans three weeks ago and put them in my children's rooms. The fans worked great and the kids loved having new fans that put out a lot more air than the old one, however after only two weeks of running the fan in my daughter's room had two blades separate at one time. The first blade struck her wall and left a large dent in the shape of the blade tip and the other bounced off her dresser and then hit the wall. I have search every where for a contact number to call and ask about this problem but the only contact information I have found leads to an email address that is no longer open. I am upset over the dent in my wall but thankful my child was not in her room at the time. If anyone else has had these type problems please post them. I am not sure if I want the replacement fan Lowes offered in my house.

Harbor Breeze is the "Lowe's" name. Manufacturer could be Litex [protected], or MSG [protected]. My fan was MSG and they sent replacement parts to my home. I had a cracked fan blade.

We have 5 of the Harbor Breeze fans but only 3 of the acorn lights to go with them. We were only able to get them as we found them. is there anyway to get the last 2 acorn lights for them.

I purchased a Harbor Breeze 52" Rutherford Walnut Ceiling Fan
(Model #: E HS52BCW5C1L) 2 days ago. I have installed many ceiling fans and found putting the parts together to be an awkward process. The design seems to be flawed in that there was limited room available in attaching the blade holders to the motor frame. The brown colored finish of the unit is highly touchy during the installation process. Despite using great care in attaching the parts, scratch-like marks were observed on the metal finish. The unit was noisy and had a wobble that could not be completely resolved. The light kit was securely attached but swayed from the housing when the fan was operated. The worst problem with this product will now be explained. When starting the fan from a completely stopped position, a humming noise is heard but the motor will not move the fan blades. By slowly spinning the blades during the hum stage in a clock-wise manner, the motor will eventually move the blades. I momentarily terminated the fan's operation and then quickly (before the blades completely stopped moving) restored power. This test resulted in the motor moving blades. Manually assisting the spinning process was not required. I suspect that the motor is defective. The good news is that all of these problems immediately surfaced and I expect to return the unit today. If the motor had failed a few months into usage, I may have encountered some difficulty with the store accepting the fan a return.

Our Harbor Breeze fan lights are blinking and we will have to remove the capacitor ( follow instructions on YouTube). Tons of people reporting the same problem. No more HB for us!

We've had the same problem with the remote not working. This is certainly an issue that needs to be addressed by Harbor Breeze and Lowes.

My remote has stopped working also...(again) This will be the fourth time I have bought one! We have disconnected the unit from the ceiling, re-installed it and the remote still does not work. I think it is time Harbour Breeze sends me a new one and Lowe's should just not carry them anymore. I refuse to shop at the Home Depot. Maybe I just need to stop buying Harbour Breeze products.

We have three Harbor Breeze fans in our vacation condo, installed by the builder. In the middle of the night, even though the fan was off, a fan arm broke and sheared off and the fan blade and sharp edge of arm fell on to our coffee table, digging a large gash in table surface. I'm just glad that it happened at night with fan off instead of flying off while the fan was on and my four year old may have been playing in the room. I assumed it would be easy to replace the arm but I am unable to find the exact match on the Internet and they don't have it at Lowe's. Lesson learned...the hard way.

Bought my first and last Harbor Breeze. Installed yesterday and seemed to work fine, except for a little noise from something rubbing inside...easy enough to fix. My problem is that the light module decided to go up in flames today. Thank goodness I was right there or we may be out on the street due to having our house burn down! Should have known, buy cheap, get in deep! Thanks harbor breeze!

Our harbor breeze fan was serviced today (or tried to be anyways). The technician couldn't even fix it so that the speeds work properly. He could make it run on low or high only-- one or the other! What a piece of crap fan! Not to mention how loud it is and the fact that the pull chain goes through the glass making it easy to break off. Never purchase this type of fan!

I have 5 ceiling fans in total, however I have 3 of the same harbor breeze Saratoga fans. While the kick out an awesome breeze they are by far thy noisiest cackling fans ever! For the prize I expected breeze and a peace of mind, but they are like a nosey set of neighbors :(

Fatima M
Philadelphia

I have the same problem with my harbor breeze fan. It sounds like its time for Habor Breeze to receive a law suit they know they are selling defective remotes and riping people of with not only the remotes but the prices themselve. They could have atleast put on a back up on of switch for the lights and the fans just like the traditional fans.

I bought one of these a few years ago. As far as I know the fan motor is still fine, but I've gone through two remotes already and am getting ready to buy a third. Thinking of giving that cool one with the digital readout a try. With any luck it won't die. The most annoying part is I didn't cheap out on the fan, it was actually one of the more expensive models that just happened to look the coolest. Thanks China, you suck at electronics.

I am having a similar problem to many of the people above as well. Our fan/light was working fine since we installed it this past fall and all of a sudden a week or so again the lights stopped working on the unit. I took the fan down and disconnected the remote unit and re-hooked the fan directly to the power cords. The fan motor worked just fine, but the lights will not turn on. Does anyone have any suggestions or have you run into this issue and been able to fix it?

I have had five Harbor Breeze fans all of which are poor quality. Three came with our new house and I added a fourth. One failed at 1 year (“Burned” up fan control module). I tried to find replacement part with no luck. Bought a replacement and after it was installed the light had a delay when coming on and would cycle off and on throughout the day. The culprit was an electronic module wired in line with the light kit.
I have two major concerns;
1. The low quality isn’t limited to mechanical; the electrical is sub-standard as well which can be dangerous.
2. Absolutely no support or spare parts available.
Save yourself some trouble and buy a higher quality fan. Sometimes cheap is just that… cheap.
Installed last two fans myself and I have a degree in electronics and 25 years experience in maintenance and worked the last 9 years programming and maintaining Robots, PLC, AC drives, etc... Point being, I’m somewhat qualified to install, troubleshoot and evaluate the quality of ceiling fans.

The quality of the Litex, TX distributed fans vary considerably depending on the Chinese monkey who assembled it for her slave wages. Some will be great and quiet straight out of the box, others will be a never-ending nightmare. If you think you got a nightmare, get Lowes to replace it ASAP before the model goes discontinued. Most of the replacement fan blades are still available through Lowes using the long model number, as are replacement capacitors, fan speed controllers etc. I have 2 fans; one is a blessing, the other is a nightmare that I persevere with cos I bought it cheap discontinued, and without a job, my time screwing around with it is cheaper than a new fan.

Of course if Obama grew some balls and shut down offshore outsourcing, I'd have a job, you'd have a fan you could use for 15+ years and never ever have to worry about, but it would initially cost you twice as much. That's the deal.

I called the people at Harboour Breeze, and they told me (concerning the fan remotes not working)
that all I could do would be to buy new remotes. When I asked "what if
those' went bad, the girl simply laughed and said, "look mister, all I can say is...buy some more!"
I was greeted with rudeness and apparently Harbour Breeze made some defective remotes and
there is simply nothing that can done about it. My suggestion? Well I need to buy 6 more ceiling
fans, and I would NOT recommend Harbour Breeze to ANYONE.
Signed One miffed customer

I just bought one at Lowes. I had to return two of them because of obvious problems like marks and mars. Straight from the factory. We opened a few box's there if front of the people at Lowes and they saw how all of them had problems.
We mixed parts together until we came up with one fan. I went through the Hell of putting it up and the blade rubs the motor housing. I am currently trying to distort the housing so it will not rub. I can't believe these people charge almost two hundred dollars for this poor, horrible workmanship.
It kind of reminds me of a Dodge. They look sooooo good and then they have all kinds of transmission, upper ball joint, etc. problems. Anyway I think I am going to go through the hell of owning this fan cause my better half loves the way it looks.

Beautiful style. Unfortunately, whoever "engineered" the fan is an idiot. I've installed many Hampton Bay fans (my fav) and a few Hunter (not so bad). Putting the Harbor Breeze fan up was like doing rocket since in the middle of my bedroom. Try to get the first part of the light fixture holder on took my wife and I 30 minutes of trying to shove too many wires into a little space and at the same time lining up this small hole with a screw hole, then using an extra-short screw to attach. I was five minutes away from just ripping the thing down and throwing it at the Lowe's customer service. Oh, and to top it all off, out of the five fans I've installed this is the only one that wobbles wildly on the high setting.

It probably didn't help that it was an outdoor rated fan but give me a break!

I recently installed a 52 in Harbor Breeze, when I flip the switch it comes on but I cannot control any functions with the remote. I know the remote is good because I have tested it on another fan in the house and hit has no problems controlling it. I have already cycled the switches on the receiver a number of times now thinking one may be stuck, but have had no luck.

Just installed the Harber Breeze and the remote does not work. From what I have been reading, its coming down and I am going to Home Depot. Never liked Lowes any way.

wills and emils problem - it sounds like the fan is picking up the frequency from somewhere else, mabye a neighbor with the same remote or model of fan, to fix this you need to adjust the frequency

genzys problem, it sounds like the fan was not properly grounded, and mabye a loose wire is touching the switch cover

I have purchased many light fans in my 40 years of being a landlady and never have had as many problems with a product as with Harbor Breeze ceiling light fan. IF they have a website they keep it hidden. The ceiling fan no longer works on high and started to smoke one day out of the blue and it was purchased in October of 2005. Does anyone know the website. By the way, I am a fourth generation landlord and will never buy another HARBOR BREEZE as I purchase items that are low maintenance, very high quality and that will last. HARBOR BREEZE is probably not a good quality product nor accountable to a customer base.

I WILL NOT BUY ANOTHER HARBOR BREEZE FAN! If you know their website, please email me at 2334848@gmail.com as I would like to inform them personally.

I just purchased a Baja '52 big blades fan for my master bedroom as I have vaulted ceilings and want to downrod it. I needed light kit. With all, about $230. I love the look it will provide me. I haven't even found a more expensive fan that I like better. Really. And three other rooms have Hunter only because I liked the look of those particular fans for each room. I am truly form over function. But now I am terrified to keep and install it after reading all of the comments here, mostly the smoke, sparks, and fire ones. Why would they sell something with a motor that will burn out in 2 years ? I see very few good comments here.
Way too scary.

I bought just had a new Harbor Breeze fan installed 2 days ago, and already the remote doesn't work. Unfortunately, it's Lowe's own brand. Interesting to see how many others have the same problem. If I get no satisfaction it will be Home Depot from now on.

We have a HarborBreeze ceiling fan that we installed 3 years ago, and we are taking it down to replace it with something "Safer". It was installed in my 3 year olds room and one day the fan decided to start smoking and stop working. It was probably the cheapest model they have, between 30 and 40 dollars on sale, but you would think it would last longer than 3 years.

i used to have a hampton bay landmark 3 in my room, and it was so noisy, i removed it after a month and i got a casablanca, and it works beautifully

Thank you Brian! I have a fan about 4 months old in my bedroom. I was making the bed one day and when I snapped the sheet to put it on the bed, the chain got caught in the sheet and snapped out. I took the light kit apart for further inspection and a plastic piece had broken. It took me a while to find this site and I was also trying to locate my receipt. I called the number you posted even though I had not found the receipt yet and to my surprise, a brief explanation of the problem led to the CSR saying "ok you're saying you need a new light kit?" and I said yes, that would solve the problem. He took my address and no more than 2 minutes after the call was made, the order for the new light kit was entered and will be shipped to my house. (I did find the model # on the Lowe's website before I called) Just wanted to tell everyone how easy it is to get help once someone posts the elusive website. It will probably be harder to get some type of restitution with the sparking / burning problems but I just wanted to let you guys know how it went for me. Good Luck and this will probably be my last Harbor Breeze because of the electrical faults that many of you are having.

I can't comment on how well my new Harbor Breeze fan works because one very small "motor screw" was missing so the fan is
just sitting partially installed. I called the company and was told
the part would be shipped right out. Ten days later and no motor
screw yet. I called again today and was told it shipped yesterday. I consider this extremely poor customer service. If the fan was not
already put together and partially installed I would take it back.

I will never buy this brand again and will not recommend it to any of my friends or family.

We purchased two Harbor Breeze 48" Brushed Nickel Elite Ceiling Fans from Lowes. The first one caught fire, melting the other wires and other one began melting Motor Capacitor CBB61 which I believe is the problem. Because I do not have the receipt Lowes will not take them back (yet) nor have I been able to find or contact Harbor Breeze (or Litex). Has anyone had any success in contacting them Harbor Breeze (or Litex)? Tom M

We bought two Harbor Breeze fans a year ago and both make a "tick-tick" noise with each revolution. The housing is not rubbing. and I've lubricated all moving parts. No help whatsoever. I'm trashing both fans.

As a wise man said (and I keep forgetting): "It only costs a little less to go first class."

We spent $160 on a Harbor Breeze ceiling fan about a year and a half ago and now the light works only if the fan is turned on high. We called the manufacturer who claims they do not make the remote any longer. What a waste of money. Very disappointed in this product.