New Home Lighting

[SullyP]

Does anyone know where contractors get ceil fans and ceil lighting from?

[Garywt]

No but if you search the brand you can see who sells them. Long shot but the warranty department might know.

[retiredguy123]

I think Dan's Fan City may have the same fans.

[BrianL99]

Does anyone know where contractors get ceil fans and ceil lighting from?

Ceiling fans? Probably from antique shops.

[photo1902]

Does anyone know where contractors get ceil fans and ceil lighting from?

Electric Supply in Wildwood

[villagetinker]

OP, call home warranty, they will be able to tell you the make of the fans and who installed them. Now if the root of your question is to install a light kit, I have done this for 4 Kichler fan (house original) with kits purchased at Lowe's. These seem to be standardized and I had very little trouble with the installation. One word of caution several years ago when I did this, they were selling units with an unusual 2 pin CFL lamp, which is going to be a future problem when these fail.

[Stu from NYC]

Does anyone know where contractors get ceil fans and ceil lighting from?

If they buy enough probably from manufacturer or perhaps a distributor.

Call manufacturer tells them what you are looking for and they will direct you accordingly.

When we had our light kits put in we were first told we had to buy direct from Hunter but than would up buying from Lowes who gave us a better price than Hunter.

[Mrfriendly]

Does anyone know where contractors get ceil fans and ceil lighting from?

Has anyone replaced the fan blades on their Hunter Lanai fans that came with the house? Looking for palm design. thanks

[Garywt]

OP, call home warranty, they will be able to tell you the make of the fans and who installed them. Now if the root of your question is to install a light kit, I have done this for 4 Kichler fan (house original) with kits purchased at Lowe's. These seem to be standardized and I had very little trouble with the installation. One word of caution several years ago when I did this, they were selling units with an unusual 2 pin CFL lamp, which is going to be a future problem when these fail.

We bought the light kit at Lowes as well. Pretty easy to install and then put LED lights in them. We did 4 or our 5 fans.

[Miboater]

I see people on Nextdoor selling the Kichler fans that come with the new houses here quite often. I bought Progress Lighting light kits on Amazon that was a simple plug in electrically. Progress Lighting makes most of the lightning fixtures in the new houses here.

[gbs317]

If you are looking for an electrician we used Lenhart Electric 352-748-5818 who installed fans and lights when we moved in four years ago.

[Mrmean58]

OP, call home warranty, they will be able to tell you the make of the fans and who installed them. Now if the root of your question is to install a light kit, I have done this for 4 Kichler fan (house original) with kits purchased at Lowe's. These seem to be standardized and I had very little trouble with the installation. One word of caution several years ago when I did this, they were selling units with an unusual 2 pin CFL lamp, which is going to be a future problem when these fail.

You can try calling the Warranty dept but as of about a year or two ago, they only respond to request via email. You must allow 48 hours for a response. Learned this unpublished change two months ago when I needed to get grout color for an emergency tile floor repair. It was a very difficult time getting the flooring company to come back out to grout three days later.
Gone are the days when you can call up and get paint colors, fixture model numbers etc.

[photo1902]

You can try calling the Warranty dept but as of about a year or two ago, they only respond to request via email. You must allow 48 hours for a response. Learned this unpublished change two months ago when I needed to get grout color for an emergency tile floor repair. It was a very difficult time getting the flooring company to come back out to grout three days later.
Gone are the days when you can call up and get paint colors, fixture model numbers etc.

This information is also available on the home spec sheets provided at closing

[bowlingal]

call the warranty dept. they will tell you anything about the house you want to know

[Dgodin]

Call the warranty department. They will know.

[Oldragbagger]

The fans are Kichler. Kichler makes light kits that are direct plug ins for these fans. If you are handy they are easy to install yourself. We ordered ours online from Lowes. There are several different styles and they ship them for free. We got ours in a few days.

[john352]

My son is a general contractor in the Orlando area and he buys fan an light fixtures at Lowes

[Robin Hardwick]

Highly recommend going to Coleman Crossing where the owner, Jason, has tons of choices and it extremely helpful. Prices are amazing and he also has an electrician who is also excellent and cheap! Have replaced all builder lights both inside and out and even bought the same fan that Dans fans had for almost half the price. In Coleman south on 301…best of luck!

[cdzizzy]

Build.com or lampsplus.com is where we buy our fixtures at good prices.

[retiredguy123]

You can buy the light kits from Amazon for less money than the local stores, and get them in a day or so.

[trishaf]

Has anyone replaced the fan blades on their Hunter Lanai fans that came with the house? Looking for palm design. thanks

Dans Fans in Leesburg had replacement parts and accessories. They are on 441 South

[Garcopc]

We purchased 3 fans had Dan’s Fan City install them. Pleased with the selection/service.

[Joecool]

Most of what we have is only at home depot

[dyoder66@aol.com]

Besco in Leesburg has a nice showroom and good service

[DaleDivine]

Has anyone replaced the fan blades on their Hunter Lanai fans that came with the house? Looking for palm design. thanks

I think they sell the whole fans with palm design at Lowe's and Home Depot.
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[clasyldynpa]

Dans Fan City in Leesbug off 441/27. You can pick the base and your blades and they have a huge inventory to choose from. For a fee they will install. Ours was $29 but I am sure it is higher now.

[DAVES]

Has anyone replaced the fan blades on their Hunter Lanai fans that came with the house? Looking for palm design. thanks

I would check with the company. I expect you will find it less expensive to replace the entire fan for one thing if you change the blades the center part, the motor, will still be it's current color. The blade assembly needs to be balanced.

[Michael G.]

We bought the light kit at Lowes as well. Pretty easy to install and then put LED lights in them. We did 4 or our 5 fans.

A word of caution when installing those ceiling fans, the electrical box.
Electrical boxes need to be reinforced to support the weight of the ceiling fans.

Some real horror story's out there on ceiling fans dropping from the ceiling from poor support.

[villagetinker]

A word of caution when installing those ceiling fans, the electrical box.
Electrical boxes need to be reinforced to support the weight of the ceiling fans.

Some real horror story's out there on ceiling fans dropping from the ceiling from poor support.

If the ORIGINAL box was for a ceiling fan you should have no problem replacing the fan, however, if you are replacing a ceiling LIGHT with a fan, then I agree with above, these boxes and the supports are NOT designed for the weight of a fan. Lowe's sell an OLD WORK fan bracket kit that supports 75 pounds as OLD work and 150 pounds when installed as NEW work. I have used these twice and they work very well IF you have access to a roof joist.