Daughter's ceiling fan developed quite a hum so decided to replace it. When I removed the old fan I realized why it never sat flush to the ceiling. The previous owner/builder? had stripped one of the box screws. Well, it was too late to make a run into the hardware store for a self taping screw. I didn't want the fan to hang on its safety cable all night nor did I want to have the electrical box exposed so after trying EVERY spare screw in the house I decided to hold a nut in behind the stripped hole and then screwed a regular electrical box screw into the mounting box into the nut (through the stripped screw). It worked and I figured this was a slight modification to the existing situation (screw through hole into mounting box). The other screw hole on the box was ok.
A couple of questions....
When you replace any fans in your house, do you retrofit your existing boxes to the new ceiling fan electrical boxes? Our house is about 20 years old and I don't think that fan was mounted onto one of those new boxes. Should I have replaced the box and if so, how easy is this to do? If it involves going up into the attic, I won't be able to as I would never find the box (due to all the insulation).
My second question is about the "nut job". Since my 2 hour job turned into 6 hour job (because of that #$#@# screw), I was wondering if this fix is acceptable or should I make my way into the hardware store tomorrow for a self taping screw (or tap set) and make another lengthy date with that #@$@ fan?
After all of this "screwing around" I discovered that this fan hums too...just not as loud. I hope that by running it for 24h like the instructions state the noise will quiet down.
Thanks for any advice you have!
A couple of questions....
When you replace any fans in your house, do you retrofit your existing boxes to the new ceiling fan electrical boxes? Our house is about 20 years old and I don't think that fan was mounted onto one of those new boxes. Should I have replaced the box and if so, how easy is this to do? If it involves going up into the attic, I won't be able to as I would never find the box (due to all the insulation).
My second question is about the "nut job". Since my 2 hour job turned into 6 hour job (because of that #$#@# screw), I was wondering if this fix is acceptable or should I make my way into the hardware store tomorrow for a self taping screw (or tap set) and make another lengthy date with that #@$@ fan?
After all of this "screwing around" I discovered that this fan hums too...just not as loud. I hope that by running it for 24h like the instructions state the noise will quiet down.
Thanks for any advice you have!