Posted on 05/17/2013 12:44:25 PM PDT by Feline_AIDS
LMAO
Sorry that wasn’t clear—the roof is low, not the ceiling. Ceiling is regular height a rest of house.
The ceiling angles in and the room is not rectangular.
That’s the way we’d do it in my trailer park. A lot of innovative personal civil engineering here.
But I’d put a ductless heat pump outside the wall if doable by code and finance.
I believe the rafters or studs or whatever they are run across instead of parallel to the needed wiring direction. There is no floor above, only insulation.
Surface mount conduit like Wiremold is easy to install.
If you have room above the studs you can handle it. Does code require conduit?
Oh man, if ever there was an example of a beautiful fashion icon, that’s it.
Look at all the weight it can hold.
Twirl! Twirl!
Some how, a line I originally had got misplaced: **Duct tape is better. Look at all the weight it can hold.**
code , I might be in trouble.
“I know this is caused by a lack of cross ventilation where the cold/hot air would be exchanged for hot/cold. “
really? How do you ‘know’ this?
I suspect you have under-sized or uninsulated duct running to that room and it would be cheaper, easier, and more effective to insulate or replace it.
But I don’t ‘know’ that...
Do you have a basement?
Feline,
If there is a outlet in the room on an adjacent wall you should be able to do it. Go to Home Depot and buy a basic electrical wiring book for $10-15. Buy yourself a fish tape($29). Cut a 3” diameter hole in the ceiling where you want the fan to hang. There is a bracket made that when inserted up into the ceiling joist cavity unscrews and the prongs on the end of the bracket push into the joists. All electrical supply warehouses will have these available. You will also need some 14 gauge romex wire and some orange wire nuts. You will then need to cut a small hole in both the ceiling and the wall where they meet directly above the outlet.
Before you mount the box in the ceiling you “fish” the wire
from the ceiling hole to the perimeter where it meets the wall. You will also need to drill a hole through the top plate of the 2x4 wall. Then pull the wire through the top plate. Now go back to the wall outlet below. Punch out one of the knockouts in the top of the box. Fish the wire tape up threw the box to the top of the wall. Attach the romex to it and pull it down to the wall outlet box.
Make your connections. Hang your fan and you will need to operate it with a pull chain. You could put a switch box for the fan in the wall directly above the wall outlet if you desired. You will now have to repair the holes you cut in the top of the wall and ceiling.
Also, Google “install a ceiling fan”.
If you decide to hire an electrician, it should be about $250-300 plus the cost of the fan.
FA,
Another thought is that if it is too hot or too cold, it sounds like you do not have enough insulation in the ceiling. Putting in more insulation may correct much of your problem and typically pays itself off within a few years in energy savings. Plus, I believe there is still some Obama money in the form of a tax credit.
FA,
Here is a link:
http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/install-a-ceiling-fan-mount-bracket-electric-box/
Ceiling fan mounting bracket
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