Hampton Bay Carriage House Ii Ceiling Fan Directions

When the summer heat infiltrates your home, your first reaction might be to turn on the air conditioner. While air conditioning cools your home, it also leaves you facing high utility bills every month. A ceiling fan helps cooled or heated air circulate through your home, lowering your utility bills by as much as 40 percent. In addition to their functional value, Hampton Bay ceiling fans -- sold exclusively at The Home Depot -- also have considerable aesthetic appeal. If you already have an outlet box in place for a ceiling fan, you can save money by installing your new Carriage House ceiling fan on your own.

Instructions

Installing the Fan

1. Turn off the power to the room you plan to install the ceiling fan in. This helps you avoid inadvertently shocking yourself during installation.

2. Pull the white, black and ground wires out of the outlet box. Thread these wires through the hole in the mounting plate. Screw the mounting plate to the outlet box.

3. Hook the fan motor assembly brackets onto the hooks on either side of the mounting plate, leaving the fan motor assembly suspended from the mounting plate yet firmly attached.

4. Connect the green, white and black ceiling fan wires to the corresponding color wires protruding from the outlet box. Use wire nuts to connect each pair of wires. Separate the green and white wires from the black wire. Push the wires into the outlet box on each side.

5. Remove two of the mounting plate's four screws that sit diagonally within the mounting plate. Loosen the remaining two screws.

6. Line the two indentations in the motor housing dome up with the two loose screws. Push the motor housing dome into place. Tighten the screws. Reinsert the two screws you removed into the holes in the motor housing dome. Tighten the screws.

7. Insert each alignment post into the slots provided in the motor housing dome. Screw the alignment posts in place.

8. Hold each fan blade in place over an alignment post. Line the two holes in the fan blade up with the two screw holes in the alignment post. Insert screws into each alignment post and tighten them, affixing each fan blade securely to an alignment post.

Operating the Fan

9. Turn on the power to the room so that you can test your new fan.

10. Pull the fan's chain once. This is the fan's "high" setting. On the highest setting, your Hampton Bay fan should make approximately 170 revolutions per minute.

11. Pull the fan's chain a second time. This is the fan's "medium" setting. On its medium setting, your fan should slow to 115 revolutions per minute.

12. Pull the fan's chain a third time. This is the fan's "low" setting. On the lowest setting, your fan will revolve approximately 70 times per minute.

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