Installing Ceiling Fans With Lights
2 remove any light bulb cover and bulbs from the fixture and then unscrew the screws or nuts holding the fixture base to the ceiling box.
Installing ceiling fans with lights. Replacing a room s chandelier or ceiling fixture with a ceiling fan that includes its own light fixture is an easy diy project for anyone comfortable with basic electrical improvements. With only three wires inside your junction box and four wires connected to the ceiling fan. Installing a ceiling fan with a light kit can become confusing. The parts that require assembly simply click into place.
Each of these has a black hot wire and each should also have a white neutral wire and a bare ground wire although there may be only one common neutral and one common ground to serve both circuits. Ceiling fan connection light wired to light switch fan on off with pull chain the wiring diagram above is for typical installation wiring light is switched the fan is powered by a pull chain once you have found and identified all of the wires on your fan and in your electrical box you can get to work on connecting them. If the room has no existing fixture this project is more difficult and entails cutting through the ceiling and installing new wiring and a switch. A ceiling fan with a light fixture usually has two separate circuits one for the fan and one for the lights.
You may wonder what in the world to do. For an easier installation consider a quick install ceiling fan which installs in just three easy steps. Because ceiling fans are so heavy the national electrical code nec prohibits attaching a ceiling fan to a standard ceiling box. Installing a fan with globe light kit installing a fan without the light kit does not apply to all ceiling fan models using the ceiling fan remote control note.
This video is a supplement to the. That s the simple and quick guide to the installation process. In this video i remove and old ceiling fan and replace it with a new hampton bay ceiling fan with light kit. In this video this old house electrical contractor john barros shows how to swap a light fixture for a ceiling fan.
See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to this old house. In the case of buying a new light kit make sure your ceiling fan has the right base to fix your light kit to it. Check the joists for any wiring or plumbing. If you re swapping a simple light fixture with a ceiling fan the box will likely need to be replaced with one rated for a ceiling fan.