How To Wire A New Ceiling Fan

Use the stud finder to locate the two adjacent joists.

How to wire a new ceiling fan. Connect the lighting wire typically blue to the black fan wire and the black ceiling wire. Use the provided screws to tightly secure the ceiling plate in place. Then a 3 wire cable from there also going to the ceiling fan.

Connect white wires together. Notice this circuit has a 3 wire cable power source coming into the double switch box. To connect the ceiling fan wiring and receiver wires follow the steps below.

Attach the ceiling plate or bracket. In this arrangement a light fixture and exhaust fan are wired to the same source. How to wire a ceiling fan to an existing outlet wire 1.

The ceiling plate or fan bracket is the fixture that your fan will be suspended from. The wires inside of a ceiling fan are relatively simple but you have to know what each one. Then leaving the double switch box is a 3 wire cable going to the ceiling fan and a 4 wire cable going to the other 3 way switch.

Mark the spot on the ceiling where the fan is to be installed. Connect the green copper wires together. Check the outlet with the.

Tuck the connected wires into the ceiling bracket. Connect black wires together. Tuck the wires back into the box.