A ceiling fan is especially useful in a kitchen because it can help disperse heat and fumes that can build up during cooking. Installing a modern ceiling fan in a kitchen (or any other room) is relatively simple, as long you have an existing fixture, like a ceiling light. If there's no ceiling fixture, have an electrician install and connect a ceiling electrical box before you start.
Instructions
1. Shut off all electricity to the kitchen from the fuse box. Set your ladder under the existing fixture and climb to it. With your screwdriver, remove the previous ceiling fixture, taking out the around the perimeter. Disconnect the wiring, leaving the wire ends hanging out of the ceiling electrical box.
2. Locate the mounting bracket that came with your fan kit (it will look like a hollow metal fixture or frame, a little smaller than the fan's ceiling housing). Hold the bracket up to the electrical box, lining up the screw holes in the bracket to the holes in the box. Secure the bracket with the provided mounting screws and your screwdriver.
3. Put the fan unit together on the floor, following the instructions that came with it. The wires should be hanging loosely out of the top of the assembly, from the ceiling housing.
4. Walk the assembled fan up the ladder and set it on top. Raise the ceiling housing portion of the fan high enough so the wires from the fan can reach the wires coming out of the ceiling electrical box.
5. Use wire nuts to connect each wire from the box to the same colored wire from the fan, twisting the nuts over the connections and wrapping them in electrical tape. Twist the copper grounding wire from the electrical box around the green grounding screw in the fan housing.
6. Secure the fan's ceiling housing to the bracket that you installed earlier, using provided mounting screws through the screw holes. Turn on the electricity.
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