hey hon look what i got hey uh a box nice it's our new project uh
we have a project this is our short time lunchtime project this is uh what i'm
hearing is this is a do it today and tomorrow get it done project
yes but i want some customization hey came to the right place let's get it
done so let's go let's go let's go
all right let's get serious keep the glasses on the hat here what have you
got in mind what you got rolled up your sleeve
well i use the dining room as my work space mainly for
the um soap business yep and some with homeschooling and stuff yep
and there's not much airflow in there so i would really like a
ceiling fan in there that would be good is that why you
bought a ceiling fan i guess it is because it's kind of hot
and i want it done now all right i put in this light fixture about five
years ago whenever we moved into this place and we were
updating all the lights now it's time to update again we're
putting in a ceiling fan first thing we've got to do is turn off
the power
all right at first glance the box feels pretty
secure pretty good in place but i want to go ahead and take the screws out of
it and pull it down to make sure i don't want to risk us putting a
ceiling fan up here and being all rocking and rolling and then it smashed
out on top of us so we'll go ahead and pull the box out
and this will kind of also be a cool um way to see ahead what's inside of our
ceiling we don't have an attic per se but i've always kind of wondered
so maybe i'll get lucky be able to see some stuff and uh who knows stick the
camera up there too and you can see what's
actually above the ceiling of a mobile home
yeah all right so there's part of the box
uh we're gonna need to replace this for sure
but take a look at this a little bit
more right i've got the gopro out i'm going
to stick this up in this hole hopefully make room with a flashlight too
i'll let you guys see in us because i won't be able to see very well until the
clip is done what exactly it looks like on the other
side of this drywall up inside the roof of our 1980-something
single-wide mobile home
no clue if this is filming anything but i'm trying
there is a roof truss right here and so this block is very
solid there's a block of wood connecting the two trusses
so this will be good enough and strong enough for our
ceiling fan no problem
so
now we can do some alex caulk to fill in the gap
and i guess we're ready to install the new fan
i needed
like that you said
cool
when we went looking for ceiling fans we couldn't find one that we really liked
we liked the brushed nickel stainless look
and they didn't have that combined with white
so us being diy-ers we decided to buy one that is the brushed nickel and paint
the blades so that we have the white it'll go ahead and match our kitchen
cabinets with the pools and everything and bring in the look of
what we really wanted
now's the time we got to put the hardware on the blades
and now is also the time that we have to be really careful not to scratch the
paint off
you did a great job doing all the tedious
work and you did a great job with the wiring
thank you um we really lucked out and we're glad to discover the cross member
board up there in the ceiling they saved a lot
of work plus it's kind of cool to get to see
what's up there although didn't really get to see a whole lot but
with our roof over project going on or getting ready to really take place
i'm really curious about what's up there trust me
so i know back when we did our kitchen renovation you mentioned getting a
dining room fan and i was kind of like man well
you had a great idea it looks really nice thank you and the airflow is really
nice in here so to go along with our custom painted
blades we also did something else and that was
we decided to not use the chinsy
they were terrible little globes that went with it
yeah i guess so we got to get custom globes bespoke that is a
popular term in europe bespoke means custom made or
unique oh that's totally us we were bespoke
so that's a way to take a boring meh fan off the shelf get yourself some
spray paint get yourself some nice bespoke globes
which they also sell in the store and make something your own yourself
customize it yeah customize it some that fits your space
in our case the brushed nickel and the white
really ties the rooms together um because as far as white there all they
had was solid white they didn't have white and
brushed nickel right so hey we might start a new trend lowe's
might be like ring ring grenade or homestead
we got a bespoke fan we saw on youtube even though i did some of the wiring and
stuff how difficult or easy would you say this is as far as a
do-it-yourself project it's easy the instructions are very simple
they line it out for you and it is something that i've done every
other light in this house and um i just didn't feel like getting
up there to do the wiring today so i let him
do it lucky me thank you thank you let me show off a little bit up on way
up top there but if i can get up there and do it
i think anybody can it's pretty simple yeah as far as tools that we used
most of it was just a handheld screwdriver a pair of wire clippers
and that was it wasn't it i think that really was it
yeah the kind of whole questionable aspect of this
was what were we getting into in the ceiling since we're changing from a
light to a fan but we lucked out in this case um if
you're swapping a ceiling fan for a ceiling fan
it should be easy i'm boring you you almost yawned right there
he's talking blah blah blah well i would say this was a
simple upgrade but made a big difference upgrade i can't wait to begin
working in here again this is where i do a lot of my soap trimming
labeling um getting it ready for send outs
getting packages ready and yeah this is this is the soap room this is our
business well i guess your business space more
yeah so it's going to make it a lot more
comfortable to work in here thanks for coming along as we upgraded
our dining room lighting and if you have any comments or
questions please leave them below we love to read them even if we don't
get to comment back on all of them definitely and we'll see you guys next
time see ya bye
you