[SABRMnLgs]

Dimmer switches are easy to install. I put a few in myself and all it cost me was an hour or so in time + the cost of the switches. And I am NO electrician believe me.

[Sidney Lanier]

Originally Posted by SABRMnLgs

Dimmer switches are easy to install. I put a few in myself and all it cost me was an hour or so in time + the cost of the switches. And I am NO electrician believe me.

I agree: Dimmer switches are VERY easy to install. However, check to be sure you don't have the same kind of bizarre wiring that we have. We have four interior fans, and I've installed lights on all of them. However, the way the wiring was set up, the wall switch operates ONLY the fan on-off; fan speeds are changed by a pull chain on the fan. The lights, however, are NOT operated by the wall switch at all; they operate ONLY from the other pull chain, the one that hangs from the light fixture mounted to the fan.

We have friends two houses from us who have the identical house interior-wise. Before we owned our house, I installed all the lights on their interior fans for them. On every one of them, the wall switch operated the lights AND the fans. When I did our first one, I was very surprised to find it different and assumed that the electrician had made a mistake, only to discover that every interior fan here was wired the same way--and different from our friends. Obviously two different electrical subcontractors were involved in building these two neighboring houses. Go figure....