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Ceiling Fan Wobble: Are The Blades Aligned?

  
  
  

ceiling fanRemoving the wobbling motion of a ceiling fan can be easy or difficult. The easy part is adding weights on the top of the blade or blades that are out of balance. Great. The challenging part is if you have already done that and the fan still is out of balance. There are a couple of things you can do even before adding weights to balance the fan.

First, check to see that the fan is securely mounted to the junction box in the ceiling and that the junction box is rock solid in the ceiling. Sometimes a homeowner will install a heavy ceiling fan into a junction box that was designed for a light fixture. Well, the ceiling fan is much heavier than the old builder-grade light fixture and consequently it moves. If the box in the ceiling has the slightest bit of movement in it, the ceiling fan will also move. Try installing a brace bar that spans the ceiling joists. These are made for ceiling fans and has a junction box that can be moved along the bar to accommodate the position of the ceiling fan.

Lastly, pick a spot on the ceiling and hold a tape measure up to touch it. Slowly revolve the fan around, one blade at a time, to see where the tip of each blade strikes the tape measure. They should all hit the same spot. If one blade is too high or too low, the fan will wobble. Use rubber washers at the front or rear of the mounting bracket to align the tip of the fan so that all the blades are on the same plane.

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