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Questions tagged [ceiling-fan]

For questions about ceiling fans -- i.e. fans that are mounted to a ceiling, visible within the room, and circulate air within that room. Vent/exhaust fans should use [exhaust-fan] and friends instead.

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How to hang a ceiling fan box in gazebo with no parallel joists?

I want to hang n fan in a covered pavilion which has a gazebo like roof, held up by rafters. I've purchased a ceiling fan box/support that is designed to fit between joists, but there are no joists. I was wondering if I could use 2 stacked 2x4's…
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How do I reconnect a ceiling fan light chain?

A recent pull of a ceiling fan light chain caused the chain and its connector to came completely out. Is there an easy way to reconnect the chain? Does the electricity need to be turned off completely to avoid a risk of electrical shock?
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Non-recessed pancake box for ceiling fan

I want to install a ceiling fan below an old plaster-and-lathe ceiling. I was thinking of running a piece of wood between two joists in the attic above, then screwing a pancake electrical box directly into that piece of wood. Rather than cutting…
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Wobbly Ceiling Fan

I've installed a 52" Hampton Fan with light, (w/out remote) in my bedroom. When it is set on low the fan appears very stable. At high speed the ceiling fan shakes and does so to a lessor extent on medium. I've always heard that fans are not supposed…
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Do I have to wrap electrical connections with electrical tape?

I installed my first ceiling fan with remote today. I believe I did everything correctly as the fan turns and the light lights, both via the remote control. My question has to do with the need for electrical tape. I replaced an existing ceiling fan…
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How do I mount a ceiling fan to this fan box?

I want to put up some ceiling fans in my house. There are already some fan boxes in the ceiling that were covered with blanking plates (if there were fans there before, I assume the previous owners took them when they moved). It looks like this…
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How much ceiling fan wobble is acceptable?

I've got 3 flush-mount ceiling fans. The large one (well, when it was working, the motor is seized up now and needs replacement) has always been rock solid. No noticeable vibration/wobble in use. Pushing on it, there's not any play at all in the…
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How do I shut off the ceiling fan without a pull chain?

So, I move into my new house. The first hour, my mother-in-law decides to try out the ceiling fan. She turns the unit on at the lightswitch, then pulls the chain right out of the unit. The fan is now on at max whenever the unit is turned on. I…
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Ceiling Fan with new light kit stopped spinning

TL;DR - Installed a light kit in two existing fans that both used to work. Lights now work, fan hums, but blades don't spin. Here's what I did: Just moved into a house that had ceiling fans already installed (and controlled by a wall switch) but…
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Ceiling-fan switch no longer turns off fan

I've been installing new outlets and switches in a condo my wife and I recently bought.The old ones were fine, but the wrong color. I've been replacing like for like, swapping the older Leviton beige switches for newer white ones. I've replaced…
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How do I determine whether the existing fixture can support a ceiling fan?

I'd like to replace a ceiling light with a ceiling fan. I've replaced existing ceiling lights before but I'm worried about the additional weight of the fan. How do I determine whether the existing fixture can support the fan? The house is over…
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Retrofit Fan box for horizontal 2x4 truss

I am attempting to install a retrofit fan brace and ran into an issue where my 2x4 are horizontal and not vertical, what are my options to support a fan or are there alternative braces for this setup? (also if any of the wording is inaccurate based…
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How to determine if a ceiling fan has a DC motor?

This question asks how to find ceiling fans that don't audibly hum: Do any ultra quiet ceiling fans that have no motor hum exist? It is something that annoys me too. I can't stand the hum a lot of ceiling fan motors make. Our current house has many…
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How can I determine why my ceiling fan is noisy?

I have a 5-blade ceiling fan in a child's bedroom (Hunter Douglas). The fan came with the house, so I know nothing about it. It worked fine for a year or so, but it is quite reachable from an upper bunk by the room's inhabitants. I can imagine…
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Mounting ceiling fan on sloped ceiling

I purchased this home with ready to mount ceiling fan outlet/wiring/switches. I notice the installed box is rotated such that the ball mount does not swing in direction of ceiling slope. Slope of ceiling is 12 degrees. It's a Fanimation ceiling…
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