Hi, I’m David Lupberger with ServiceMagic.com. If you’re hanging a ceiling fan in your home, you need to make sure that the electrical box you’re hanging it on is reinforced and can carry that weight. Most residential light fixtures are five, six, eight pounds and a ceiling fan can weight 20 pounds or more. Let me show you what a reinforced ceiling fan bracket looks like and how to install it.
First thing to do is to remove the existing ceiling box. You’ll see I did this in the model that we put together to show how this is done, so imagine this is a ceiling. This is the ceiling fan brace and box kit and you’ll see it is a brace that goes into the ceiling and as you unscrew this, it goes in to the supports on both sides and those cleats connect and create a very firm connection to allow you to come back and hang a box of this that will support literally up to 50 pounds.
After you’ve removed the other lighting box, you’re going to be up on a ladder and you’ve got an open hole to work with. You’re going to push the wiring out of the way and you’re going to take the actual bracket and fish that through the whole and this is all meant to fit in because once I put this in place, I’m going to then start unscrewing this so it cleats into the framing on sides. It’s pretty darn tight. Once the brace’s in place, you’re going to put this bracket in. Once my bracket’s in place, I’ll take my electrical box, pass it through the ceilings and then I’ll poke out one of those holes and then I’ll fish wiring through and I’ll bring my box through and you’ll see there are some screw holes. I’m going to line up box and take at least two screws and connect the electrical box to the bracket from below.
Every ceiling fan requires some kind of bracing so make sure you look for something like this before you hang a ceiling fan in your own house and also be careful, remember you’re working with electricity, so make sure it’s wired correctly and also remember you may be on a ladder, so if either of these things you’re unsure or uncomfortable with, make sure you hire a pro.
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