- 1). Cut the wall and ceiling openings where you will place the switch, fan and light fixture. Cut another small opening where the ceiling and wall join directly above the hole for the switch.
- 2). Remove the baseboards between the switch hole and the power supply receptacle. At floor level beneath the switch hole and receptacle cut small access holes to run cable.
- 3). Install the switch box to the wall and the fan and fixture hardware in the ceiling. String brace bars between ceiling joists and attach a fixture junction box to each bar. Remove the power supply receptacle from its box so you can thread the electric cable.
- 4). Run the wires to the fan. Feed the fish tape through the switch's ceiling-wall access hole and thread the tape across the ceiling to the fan junction box. Attach the cable to the end of the fish tape at the fan box and pull it back toward the access hole. Drop the cable down to the switch box.
- 5). Run cable for the light fixture from the fan. There will now be two pairs of black and white wires at the fan and a single pair of black and white wires at the light fixture.
- 6). Run the cable from the power source to the switch by dropping the BX cable down to the floor access hole and running the cable in the gap between the drywall and the floor and up to the switch. The switch box now has two sets of black and white wires.
- 7). Make the wire connections. Connect the black (hot) wires at the switch to the brass terminals on the switch. Connect the the white (neutral) wires together. At the fan box connect all of the black wires and the red wire leading to the fan's light kit. Do the same for the white wires. At the light fixture box connect the black and white wires to the light fixture and ground the fixture on the junction box.
- 8). Attach the black and white wires to the power receptacle. If both terminals on the receptacle are already filled, make a "pigtail" by disconnecting one set of black and white wires and attaching short wires to the outlet terminals. Attach the other wires to the end of the pigtail. Do not connect more than one wire to a terminal.
- 9). Affix the switch to its box and replace the receptacle in its box. Patch the drywall holes using a drywall patching kit.
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