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Reged: 05/09/05
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Help hanging a ceiling fan in my crazy house?
05/25/14 04:23 PM
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Paging italie... 
So I'm trying to hang a ceiling fan in my kids' room. I took the existing electrical box out to put in a fan-rated box. I ended up having to go up in the crawlspace, because I couldn't get the hanger out from down below. So it turns out the joists where I need to put the box are more than 24" apart, I guess because they had to clear a chimney. There are 1x4 straps across the gap there, which is what the sheetrock is attached to, and the hanger for the original box was screwed into these.
Can I just put more substantial boards between the joists (where the 1x4s are) and attach the bar for my fan box to these? What size board should I use, and what's the best way to attach it?
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