Most ceiling fan kits are designed for mounting to your braced junction box on a level ceiling. Fortunately, some companies sell modification kits for mounting ceiling fans on a sloped ceiling. The mounting bracket in the junction box for these instances is usually a ball-and-socket-style swivel mount, allowing the fan to be set up on anywhere from a flat to a 12/12 pitched (45-degree) ceiling. The fan will also need to be fitted using a downrod to provide the blades clearance so they don’t strike the ceiling.
Switch off the breaker to the electrical circuit to the junction box and then switch to which the fan is going to be connected. Eliminate the filter area covering the switch using a screwdriver, and place the tip of a noncontact electrical ripped contrary to the wires around the side of the switch. If the light in the tester turns on, then there’s power in the circuit. Turn off more breakers or the main move to the home and recheck until the tester verifies that the power is off. Reinstall the switch plate.
Expand a stepladder and get rid of the fixture on the junction box in the ground if one is set. Then loosen the screws holding the junction box to the ceiling and then pull the box out of the hole. When there’s no supporting brace in the ceiling capable of holding a ceiling fan, position a fan brace between the joists over the hole, and tighten the brace with an adjustable canopy. Insert the electrical cable to the cable clamp, then place the junction box mounting bracket above the brace and then mount the box by tightening the two locking nuts to the brace using a 1/4-inch nut driver. Tighten the screw on the cable clamp to hold the electrical cable set up.
Eliminate the outer sheathing of the electrical cable using a utility knife, then strip 1/2-inch of insulating material in the ends of the electrical wires in the box.
Install the ball from a ceiling fan threaded bracket to the end of a downrod of the correct length to your ceiling’s toss and blade width (see Resources). Insert the end of the downrod through the ceiling fan’s canopy, then insert the wires in the ceiling fan through the downrod and secure the downrod to the fan engine. Slide the downrod pin through the mounting hole and then secure the downrod pin with a cotter pin. Then tighten the setscrews and locknuts to hold the downrod to the fan engine.
Mount the hanger bracket to the junction box using the fan brace screws. Then lift the fan engine and downrod to the junction box, and slide the ball of this downrod to the socket of this hanger bracket.
Connect the white wire from the ceiling fan to the white cable from the junction box using a wire nut. When there’s a red cable present in the junction box, connect it to the blue wire in the ceiling fan. When there’s no red wire in the junction box, twist the black and blue ceiling fan wires together, then connect the 2 to the black wire in the junction box using a wire nut. Lastly, connect the green wire of this ceiling fan to the bare wire from the junction box. Gently tuck the wires to the junction box over the bracket.
Slide up the canopy the downrod and attach it to the mounting bracket using the four screws included with the fan.
Attach each fan blade to your knife bracket using three blade mounting screws, then attach each blade to the fan motor using two motor mount screws.
Attach the light kit to the base of the lover, if one was included. Connect the blue wire from the fan to the black wire of this light kit using a wire nut, then connect the wires in comparable fashion. Tighten the mounting screws to secure the light kit to the fan before installing the globes and light bulbs.
Turn on the circuit breaker and then analyze the ceiling fan using the light switch.