There was a time when installing a ceiling fan meant hiring a professional, but today's ceiling fans are usually made for do-it-youself installation onto an existing ceiling electrical box, which will generally have a ceiling light fixture attached to it. Many popular fans, like the Hunter Grand Lodge line, come with features like mounting hooks that allow you to easily wire the fan.
Instructions
1. Cut the electricity to the existing ceiling light fixture at the house circuit box. Access the old fixture with your step ladder and remove it, using a screwdriver to take out the screws holding the fixture to the electrical box that's embedded in the ceiling. Disconnect the wiring between the fixture and the box, leaving the exposed wires hanging out of the box.
2. Find the mounting bracket that came with your Hunter Grand Lodge ceiling fan and screw it onto the electrical box with the provided machine screws. The bracket will be fitted with screw holes that should line up with the screw holes on a standard box. The wire should be hanging down through the center of the bracket.
3. Assemble the fan according to the instructions, but don't attach the blades. Walk the fan unit up your ladder and hang it from the mounting hook on the bracket. This will be a small metal hook that fits through a hole near the top of the fan housing, allowing the housing to hang sideways off the bracket, so the wires from the fan will be near the wires coming out of the electrical box.
4. Connect the wires from the fan to those from the electrical box with wire nuts. Connect the wires by color: black to black, white to white. Wrap electrician's tape around the connections. Tuck the connected parts of the wiring up into the electrical box.
5. Twist the copper grounding wire from the electrical box around the green ground screw in the fan. Tighten the screw.
6. Lift the fan housing up to the bracket and secure it there, using the mounting screws that came with your fan. Turn on the power and test the motor and light before attaching the fan blades.
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