Installing ceiling fan w/ light in bedroom.

Have to make sure the ceiling electrical box is supported for a fan. Big difference between a light electrical box and one braced for fan weight and loads.

Easy to switch out though.

Yes you should see it. Will usually look like a regular square metal ceiling box but have a support going in each directing tying into the adjacent ceiling joists for support.

Google "ceiling box fan support"

I see. I will do some investigating. Thank you for the info.

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Just screw it into the existing light bracket

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Probably the biggest frick up that happens when people install fans. Do not do this. You must check for proper support in the fixture. If there was a fan there already it can sometimes be a safe bet that there was proper support, especially if the fan was there a long time, but the only way to know is to go in the attic and check.

Green to green, black to black, white to white and red to blue if you have the red wire. If not the blue goes with the black wires.

I am not a handy guy and I installed a fan. It is tedious your first time doing it but it gets better. Here are my tips:

1) shut the breaker off and check the wires with a voltage tester.

2) take a picture of the assembly and how it is attached to the old fan to verify which wires go where in case they aren’t color coded well (my house is very old and the wires suck)

3) google a pic of the support a fan needs in the attic and go check yourself up there to see if it is in there

4) keep the old screws that went into the ceiling from the old fan in case the new screws are smaller in width than the old screws

5) live and learn, you’ll be doing it easily in no time.

Don’t forget to turn the breaker back on when you’re done and flip the switch to the fan

A lot of lights in bedrooms will have round, shallow biscuit boxes screwed into a 2x4 in the ceiling, either a ceiling Joyce or a 2x4 added to support a fan. If they wired for a fan there should be a white, black, red, and ground wire in the ceiling box, ground is prob straight copper. If it’s set up like that, from the fan, green to copper, black to black, white to white, blue to red. Is there a single switch or two switches on the wall?

I'll probably get some flack for this, but I started in the residential lighting business back in the early '80s and have hung lots of fans far heavier & more ornate than what's available today. I've never had or known anyone who ever had a problem with a fan coming down using a standard joist mounted ceiling box prior to ceiling fan boxes coming in to the market place.

Granted I follow that practice now for the added safety benefit(Code) but I think it's overkill as long as the octo box is directly mounted to a joist or an expandable joist hanger.

I certainly wouldn't open up a ceiling if unreachable from the attic if either of the above mounts were present.

I hung this one in the master bathroom this morning to replace an older one. Whoever designed the blades needs to be punched in the balls. They were a pain to attach to the motor

... bbut it's only got three blades