Home Automation - Ceiling fan down stairs
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05-07-00, 05:22 PM
I'm trying to add a ceiling fan to my down stairs den. There isn't a light fiture there now. What is the easiest way to get electrical to the center of the room without using surface mount conduit.
05-07-00, 08:48 PM
The easiest way is to pay an electrician to do it :D To do it yourself, try taking to fish tapes and the rest of your patients :) and attempt to hook one fishtape to the second. Once that monumental task is done, pull one tape to the opening and run the wire to your tie in point.
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05-08-00, 05:24 PM
hello chuck,
in all actualy Asimox is right east way is to call an electrician. but this is a task that can be done by patent and experenced doityorselfers.
u will need to determin which way the celling joists run, and hopfully they run parallel to the switch wall, if not u will have to notch each 1 to run your cabel to the fan. cut your hole in the wall for your switch box,and hole in celling for fan box, keeping each in same joist space. cut another hole at the top of the wall above your switch box largenough to get a long bit in to drill the plate. if the joists run paralle get 2 fish tapes and inlist a helper and push 1 tape from the switch box threw the drilled hole and other from celling hole to the wall,now the tricky part u will have to hook the 2 fish tapes to each other by pushing and twisting till they hook together, be pasient as this can take some time. then pull on 1 that goes to light as u feed the 1 thats in the switch. i have in some instances been abel to just push the tape up threw the drilled hole and then onto the light. now if the joists do not run parallel then u will have to cut the celling at each joist and knotch it then run your wire threw the knotches and then install a nail plate (piece of 1/16" thick metal) befor patching celling, and i knotch the plate as well. i would install 12 or 14 3 with a ground and switch the light indapendent of the fan useing 2 switches.
in all actualy Asimox is right east way is to call an electrician. but this is a task that can be done by patent and experenced doityorselfers.
u will need to determin which way the celling joists run, and hopfully they run parallel to the switch wall, if not u will have to notch each 1 to run your cabel to the fan. cut your hole in the wall for your switch box,and hole in celling for fan box, keeping each in same joist space. cut another hole at the top of the wall above your switch box largenough to get a long bit in to drill the plate. if the joists run paralle get 2 fish tapes and inlist a helper and push 1 tape from the switch box threw the drilled hole and other from celling hole to the wall,now the tricky part u will have to hook the 2 fish tapes to each other by pushing and twisting till they hook together, be pasient as this can take some time. then pull on 1 that goes to light as u feed the 1 thats in the switch. i have in some instances been abel to just push the tape up threw the drilled hole and then onto the light. now if the joists do not run parallel then u will have to cut the celling at each joist and knotch it then run your wire threw the knotches and then install a nail plate (piece of 1/16" thick metal) befor patching celling, and i knotch the plate as well. i would install 12 or 14 3 with a ground and switch the light indapendent of the fan useing 2 switches.