Help Wanted Who can install a ceiling fan?

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Ceiling fans are super easy to install ESPECIALLY Hunter fans. Hunter fans and some Hampton Bay fans have a cradle that mounts to the outlet frame and then you place the fan motor in the cradle to do the wiring so you don’t have to hold anything while doing the connections. The only “hard part” is not dropping the screws that hold the fan blades to the motor while screwing them in.
Get a wireless fan control unit that mounts to the wall switch location. Fans are 2 or 3 wires depending on if the house was pre wired for a fan with a light, with the wireless control you can bridge the light and fan control into the same power lead and get fan speed and light dim control off a 2 wire system.
Honestly if you’ve ever put a new radio in a car you can install a ceiling fan, they’re ridiculously easy to do.
 

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psh, be a man and don’t turn the breaker off and just yell ”fuck” like the rest of us when we get a little zap. That’s when you know to be a little more careful!
Exactly, its a little zap and nothing more. I got zapped last Saturday putting in a new recessed LED light in my basement bathroom. The funniest part, the fuse box was literally 15' away from where I was working lol.
 

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Knowing it's a Streamwood house, killing the basement circuit also probably kills half the upstairs too.
Your 100% correct lol. My fucking microwave and 2 other outlets in the kitchen for some strange reason are on the same circuit as half my basement.
Opposite side of the house as well
 

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I’ve eaten more voltage than everyone on this forum combined X10 and I’m only alive due to blind luck. Turn off the breaker every time. 110 can kill you given the right circumstances, the right circumstances can be as easy as how you touch the wires and whether your body contracts into the voltage or away from it. If your involuntary contraction pushes you into the circuit and the circuit breaker doesn’t work you cook and you cook slowly, meaning you know you’re going to die and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Macho tough guy bullshit gets you killed.
 

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I’ve eaten more voltage than everyone on this forum combined X10 and I’m only alive due to blind luck. Turn off the breaker every time. 110 can kill you given the right circumstances, the right circumstances can be as easy as how you touch the wires and whether your body contracts into the voltage or away from it. If your involuntary contraction pushes you into the circuit and the circuit breaker doesn’t work you cook and you cook slowly, meaning you know you’re going to die and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Macho tough guy bullshit gets you killed.
Been trying to educate these guys...they don't listen.
 

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Mook Mook

Ceiling fan wall remote, easy to wire and the 3 I have in my house work flawlessly with the Hunter fans they’re wired to. Can adjust fan speed and dimmable lights. There are other models by Hampton Bay but from experience those are trash and they don’t look as good.
Honestly if I wasn’t still having back problems I’d show up at your place and do the install for you but a herniated disc combined with a sinus infection and shit balance isn’t the best for working on a ladder.

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When installing the fan in my daughters room, I killed the power to the bedrooms. Only to find out it’s not on that circuit as the wires spot welded themselves to the nut that I was trying to feed them through. Had to just rip it off to stop the sparking. Also it’s not wired to the switch and just constant power. Yay. ?
 

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I hate AC at any voltage and won't touch it unless it's a simple fixture change. I've been buzzed a few times for reasons that don't make any sense at all.
 

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I always turn the individual breakers off. I have a lot of old multi branch circuits (black and red phases sharing 1 neutral) So to be sure there isn’t any potential on the neutral I have to double check everything. Fucking annoying.

In case anyone is wondering wtf a multi branch circuit is..

 

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Call me a pussy all you want....I turn the whole fucking house's power off when I work on electric shit!!
Nothing wrong with this approach at all. I've found some sketchy wiring in my 1950s built house. Most of the light switches are in 2 gang boxes where each switch in the same box is on a separate breaker. If I kill power to just the one circuit I want to work on, there could still be live power in the switch box unless I make sure to find the other breaker and kill power to the second switch.
 

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Nothing wrong with this approach at all. I've found some sketchy wiring in my 1950s built house. Most of the light switches are in 2 gang boxes where each switch in the same box is on a separate breaker. If I kill power to just the one circuit I want to work on, there could still be live power in the switch box unless I make sure to find the other breaker and kill power to the second switch.

My house is also a 1950's home, which is why I especially don't mess around.
 

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Just kill the breaker and use an AC current probe to make sure the circuit is dead before you go licking the wires. Can use a multimeter too.
 

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I just turn off the individual breaker and then take the extra step to test the wires with a multimeter. I'm sure if I didn't, I'd end up crossing a couple of wires by accident and give myself a little zap.
 

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Current probes aren't reliable.

Meter verified in a known good circuit first, then confirm circuit you're working on is zero volts.
It’s not the volts that get ya, it’s the amps.

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