Your ceiling fan stopped working the way it should, and before you buy a new one or call an electrician, there’s a decent chance the problem costs about ten dollars and half an hour to fix. The ceiling fan capacitor is the single most common point of failure in residential ceiling fans, more common than … Read more
A ceiling fan pull chain that has gone limp, snapped off, or stopped changing anything when you tug it is one of the most common fan repairs there is, and one of the most fixable without a service call, a trip to an electrician, or any special skill beyond a screwdriver and a little patience. … Read more
When a ceiling fan motor runs and hums the way it always has but the blades sit still, or turn slowly and loosely as if they have come unhooked from whatever drives them, the part that has almost certainly failed is the flywheel. It is the hub that sits between the motor and the blades, … Read more