Homeowners save countless dollars by using wind chill instead of air conditioning on hot days. However, a noisy ceiling fan is an incredible frustration. Get to know how anyone can fix these fans with only a bit of elbow grease. The results are a long-lasting fan for years to come. The simplest way to calm a noisy ceiling fan is by cleaning the blades. Some fans sit idle for many months. They become unbalanced as a result. Carefully wipe down each blade with a damp rag.
Clean the blade mounts too. The noise may abate with just a simple cleaning. After you clean the blades, Test them afterward to see if this made a difference. Those Ceiling fan blades can hold quite a bit of dust. All ceiling fan blades will be connected to a mount on the assembly. Take a look at these screws. Tighten them as necessary. In many cases, a noisy ceiling fan can be resolved with this step. Many ceiling fans come with light fixtures. It makes sense to combine these features into one appliance.
The globe or cover on the fixture, however, might loosen. Access the cover and check the fasteners. The top sides will be much dirtier than the bottom sides.
Dry any moisture from the blades right away. Many are made from wood composite or particleboard materials that are easily damaged by water. While you're cleaning the blades, make sure that each blade is straight and not warped, damaged, or hanging lower than the other blades.
If it's hanging lower, try tightening it see below to correct the problem. If this doesn't work, or if the blade is warped or damaged, replace the blade with an exact match from the fan's manufacturer. Warped, damaged, or loose blades can cause a fan to wobble and can be very hard on the motor and the fan mount. Several different parts can become loose on a ceiling fan and make things noisy.
The first parts to check are the blades—where they mount to their brackets and where the brackets mount to the rotating part of the fan's motor assembly. Blades may be fastened to the brackets with screws or with another type of fastening system, such as keyholes that fit over pins or studs on the bracket. The brackets usually fasten to the motor unit with screws or bolts. Tighten screws or bolts with a screwdriver or wrench, as needed.
If the screws are Phillips-head, note than they may be larger than standard-size screws. The larger screw heads are sized for a 3 Phillips screwdriver tip. The standard size is 2. You can identify 3 screws by a squarish space at the center of the screw head's cross pattern. A 3 bit which is commonly included in screwdriver sets has a corresponding flat area at the tip's point. If you use a 2 screwdriver with 3 screws, you're likely to strip them.
If your fan has a light fixture , make sure all globes, shades, bulbs, and any other fixture parts are snug. Most globes and shades are secured with thumbscrews and are easy to tighten by hand. Don't use tools on these, as you're likely to overtighten the screws and possibly crack the glass. Then lower the canopy down and let it rest on top of the ceiling fan motor housing. Raise the canopy back up, but this time when tightening the screws, tighten them only enough to keep the canopy cover in place.
Since leaving the canopy somewhat loose prevents it from becoming in a bind against the ceiling, it will almost always solve the issue if the clicking or popping noise is coming from that area of the fan. If your fan still makes the noise with the canopy lowered, before raising the canopy back up proceed to the next step….
If the ticking sound is still present after the canopy was lowered, then your hanging bracket or the electrical outlet box the bracket is attached to may be loose. Thus, possibly being the cause the sounds that are annoying you. To check for this simply grip the hanging bracket, and with a decent amount of strength try pushing side to side on the bracket. If it's loose you will notice the ceiling fan rock below it when doing this step. Sometimes you may have two lock nuts making the connection instead of the screws.
In such case, tighten the lock nuts. Whichever you have, make sure they are as tight as they will possibly go. Looseness here is very bad, and can eventually lead to a ceiling fan falling from the ceiling over time. After tightly securing the hanging bracket, if you are still getting rocking action of the fan below the bracket, then it is probably being caused by a loose electrical outlet box. The electrical box should be supported very well against your home's supporting structure, and it should have no play in it at all.
Also, the electrical outlet box required to support a ceiling fan properly should be metal. Although some composite boxes state they are for ceiling fan support, I, nor do ceiling fan manufacturers ever suggest using them. It will involve taking the entire fan down and starting over with the installation. In such case, I typically suggest having a new fan on site, just incase the ticking is coming from your fan motor and is not fixable.
This way you can have the electrician to install the new fan when he or she is there, and not need to pay for a separate home visit fee when he comes back to install a new replacement ceiling fan.
If you have a flush mounted fan , the type some may call a ceiling hugger ceiling fan, the wiring connection to the ceiling is usually exposed to the motor of the fan. Usually this is a ticking sound that can be timed to every full rotation of the fan. To fix this issue you will need to remove the blades from the motor. The easiest way to do this is to remove the screws that hold the blade irons directly to the motor.
There will only be two screws per blade iron, so it is not very time consuming to remove them. Once the ceiling fan blades are removed, look for the screws that hold the decorative motor cover to the ceiling. Remove those screws and the cover will come down, giving you good visibility of the motor.
Look above the motor and see if you see a wire that is making contact with it.
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