How to Install Wiring for Ceiling Fans

Instructions for Neutral Wire

• 1

  Turn off the breaker switch that feeds power to your ceiling fan circuit.

• 2

  Look for the white wire, which is the neutral ground, coming from the ceiling fan and the white wire coming out of the ceiling.

• 3

  Cut the white wire from the ceiling fan down to a size that will easily connect with the white wire from the ceiling fan, using the wire cutters.

• 4

  Pull off the white covering over the white wire from the ceiling fan using the wire cutters. Gently clamp the wire with the wire cutters and twist in a circle, pulling upward when the wire cover is detached.

• 5

  Twist the wire nut off the white wire in the ceiling.

• 6

  Lay the white wire from the ceiling against the white wire from the ceiling fan so that the copper ends are touching.

• 7

  Twist the wire nut over the two wires. The threads in the wire nut will twist the copper ends together, creating a secure circuit.

Instructions for Active Wires

• 8

  Look for the black wire coming from the ceiling.

• 9

  Cut the insulation off the ends of the black and blue wires that come from the ceiling fan.

• 10

  Twist the metal ends of the black and blue wires from the ceiling fan together.

• 11

  Lay the end of the black wire from the ceiling against the ends of the twisted-together black and blue insulated wires from the ceiling fan.

• 12

  Twist the wire nut over all three of these wires in order to twist them securely to each other.