I’m finishing out a home office / library for a doc, and he wants a ceiling fan & light in the room. It will have a coffered ceiling, and fortunately ( or maybe not) the fan naturally falls right on an intersection of two beams.
So how would you support the fan? No sheetrock yet so I can do most anything. The distance from the bottom of the joists to the bottom of the beam will be about 11″.
I’m sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
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At the intersection of the two beams, will you have enough flat area to attach the mounting escutcheon of a typical (Emerson, etc.) fan?
Sounds like a no-brainer to me, since you haven't done the beams yet.
Gene Davis, Davis Housewrights, Inc., Lake Placid, NY
If your "beams" are done the way most do them, that is, using a "U" of 1x trim fastened to cleats up against the ceiling, and your beam intersect is too small for your fan's ceiling mount trim escutcheon, you can creatively do a box, like I show in the pic attached, or if not a box, a "diamond" with little diagonals.
The U trim method will make for ease of wiring, as you have a hollow channel for rounting wiring, if it is coming from elsewhere.
Gene Davis, Davis Housewrights, Inc., Lake Placid, NY
I think there will be enough room for the escutcheon. I'm concerned about carrying the weight of the fan.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
If you are doing the U shaped "beams" fastened to cleats, make sure your ceiling framing is there, or block for it, so that the cleating at or adjacent the fan attach point has good purchase above. Those fans don't really weigh that much.
Screw the cleats up through your drywall, to the framing or blocking above.Gene Davis, Davis Housewrights, Inc., Lake Placid, NY