How to Remove a Hunter Low Profile Ceiling Fan?

In most houses, a ceiling fan provides comfort by circulation air throughout the room and adds beauty to the room. However, you may want to uninstall your Hunter low profile ceiling fan when the motor stops working, replace if you want to upgrade your house décor, or perform some maintenance and cleanliness.

A ceiling fan is an appliance that is a practical solution to your room. It will maintain your room with a comfortable temperature. The perception that the ceiling fan is challenging to uninstall or remove when the fan goes out of style or develop a mechanical breakdown may keep you off.

During summer, a Hunter ceiling fan will reduce the stress for you on the air-conditioner. The ceiling fan also has another function, to circulate the hot air to warm your room up.

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Reasons to Remove Your Hunter Low Profile Ceiling Fan

Hunter ceiling fans are estimated to have up to 12 years of life span; however, there are reasons to remove your fan before its life span ends or replace it. These reasons include;

Fan functioning on its own

If the Hunter fun or light may turn on itself randomly on its own if the Hunter ceiling fan remote control receiver get interruption from another source. This will require you to change the handset receiver and receiver.

Your Hunter ceiling fan can be off due to a faulty light kit, a faulty remote control or wall, incorrect installation, faulty or broken light switch, or if the fuse in the light kit has blown.

The fun has stopped working

Your Hunter low profile ceiling fan can stop working after you install it. The wrong installation can cause this if the remote control handset is not functioning correctly or the receiver, broken capacitor, switch, or a problem in the wall control.

Frequency of usage

If you are using your fan more frequently, the possibility of the fan wearing out fast is high since it will go through regular maintenance and cleaning.

Style

When you are renovating your room, you will want to upgrade your ceiling fan, too, with a more stylish model to contribute to the makeover.

Other mechanical problems

Your Hunter low profile ceiling fan may develop an annoying buzz after a few years of installation. Wobbling, where a perfectly and firmly installed fan should not wobble, can be caused by unbalanced blades or an inferior hanging device. This may make you remove your Hunter ceiling fan.

Suppose the fan produces a squeaky sound even after you apply oil, diminishing the speed you set, or even after a professional fix, your Hunter low profile ceiling fan still has recurring technical issues. In that case, you will need to remove it.

 

Removing Hunter Low Profile Ceiling Fan

Removing Hunter low profile ceiling fan is not a difficult task. You should perform all steps needed with a lot of care.

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Tools

Before starting to remove your Hunter low profile ceiling fan, you need to have the tools that you will need to use. Some of the tools you will need to use are pliers, a step ladder, a non-contact voltage tester, and an Allen key or a screwdriver.

Power off

The first thing you should do is disconnect the electricity by turning off the circuit breaker that supplies electricity to your Hunter ceiling fan. Ensure there is no flow of power by turning your Hunter ceiling fan power on. If the fan does not turn on, then you are safe to proceed with removing the fan.

Take your step ladder under your Hunter ceiling fan a little bit to the side of your fan to allow you to have a perfect angle of reaching to the fan.

If your Hunter fan is equipped with a lampshade and light bulb, then you need to remove the light bulbs first to avoid breaking in the process when you will be removing the lampshade and the fan.

Detach fan blades

Hunter ceiling fan blades are attached to the fan by metal brackets that are screwed into the housing of the fan’s motor, which is the body of the fan. You need to remove these fan blades to make your Hunter low profile ceiling fan less bulky as you remove it.

Using your screwdriver or Allen key, unscrew the screws that hold all the fan blades to the Hunter fan’s motor housing. Identify the screws that hold the canopy covering the wires that are above the motor.

By using your screwdriver or Allen key, unscrew the screws detaching the mounting plate from the ceiling and gently lower the canopy and let it rest on the neck of the motor.

Disconnect wires

You will be able to see the wiring connection that supplies electricity to your Hunter low profile fan. Using your non-contact voltage tester, confirm to be sure if there is no electric current flowing through the wires you are about to disconnect.

There is a wire nut on each wire, twist the wire nuts clockwise for each wire and using your pliers, twist the wires, and unhook your Hunter ceiling fan motor housing from the safety cable. Once you have safely removed the wires coming from the ceiling from the fan wires.

Ensure you place back the wire nuts onto the ceiling’s wires to avoid shortening if you want to turn your electricity power on when you are not installing another new fixture.

Remove mounting bracket

You need to remove the mounting bracket even if you are going to install a new ceiling fan. This is essential because every ceiling fan model comes with its compatible mounting bracket.

Remove the fan whole body from the mounting bracket and hinge. If you find a safety chain from the fan joined to the ceiling’s joist, you will first unhook that safety chain to allow the fan to detach freely.

Detach your Hunter low profile ceiling fan mounting bracket from the ceiling. You will do this by unscrewing the screws from the electric box using a screwdriver. Once you have removed the mounting bracket, putting back the screws into the electric box, awaiting the next fixture, you will install it.

Final Verdict

Hunter low profile ceiling fan is perfect additions to most homes. Still, you may want to change your light fixture style by carefully following the procedures on how to remove the Hunter low profile ceiling fan above. If the fan is appropriately removed and is still in good working condition, you can install it in your other room.