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Ceiling Medallion Installation - Footstep by Pace Guide from Outset to Finish

I am by no means a person that you would consider "handy" but slowly I am picking up enough skills where I can be considered a novice "Practice it Yourselfer". I wanted to put this guide together for everyone out there that, like me, is a niggling hesitant to try something simply because they oasis't washed it before. Prior to doing this project I had installed ane medallion in the past for the nursery of my newborn son. At present my son has grown into a "big male child" (ii years quondam) and is moving out of the plant nursery. The room he is moving into has a standard (ugly) light fixture and I am replacing that with a ceiling fan and putting a ceiling medallion above to add a nice emphasis feature that would compliment the crown molding.

From the Ceiling Medallion Collection, my wife and I selected the B3025 medallion which was 21" in bore and seemed a perfect fit for above the ceiling fan in this 8' alpine room. I started off by painting the medallion and so it would exist dry and ready to mount during the installation. I used a paint brush and regular latex paint. Spray pigment is besides corking to employ because it goes on then rapidly and dries within minutes.

After the medallion was painted, I turned off the electricity, unscrewed the canopy of the original light fixture, and detached the wires from the ceiling. Later on removing the original light fixture I realized that the bolts holding it upwards into the ceiling were only 1" long and that I needed longer bolts for the installation. Since the original fixture saturday flush with the ceiling and it needed a 1" bolt and my medallion was 1.v" thick where the bracket would sit, I knew that it would require a 2.v" long bolt for doing the installation. Subsequently a quick trip to Domicile Depot I was back on track.

The medallion I had selected did non have a predrilled hole, so I took the ceiling fan bracket and traced the holes that needed cut. I needed 1 hole in the center that was large enough to bring the wires through and and so I needed a little slot on each side for the bolts to go up into the ceiling. In one case the holes were traced I put a drill bit on my screw gun and removed the traced areas. Since the canopy would cover the hole, I knew that I didn't have to be also precise when I made the cut.

Normally at this point I would have put a polyurethane adhesive on the back side of the medallion to secure information technology up to the ceiling, only I wanted to do a dry run speedily but to make certain I had everything in place. I put the medallion up to the ceiling and tightened the bolts through the fixture. Everything fit perfectly and with the bolts holding it upwardly in place it was so snug to the ceiling that I decided to featherbed putting whatsoever agglutinative on the back. And then for this project I installed it without agglutinative and without any nails.

With the medallion in identify my next stride was putting together the parts of the fan. I won't become into the details of that since each fan is dissimilar and usually you just take to attach the fan blades and the lights. This was the longest function of the installation for me every bit it took near xx minutes to go everything put together.

For the next step I needed an extra pair of hands. With the fan put together we lifted it up in place past the ceiling fan bracket and connected the electrical back. I turned the electricity dorsum on and it worked (I am for some reason ever surprised when things work the offset time).

To finish off the medallion I used white painter's caulk (DAP) and put a little bead around the medallion where it met with the ceiling. Then I used my finger to smooth the line and wiped whatever excess off with a slightly clammy rag. Project Complete!

Total Project Time: one hour 15 minutes

Total Project Cost (ceiling fan, ceiling medallion, bolts): $96

I was so excited at how easy this was that the adjacent day I decided to install a ceiling medallion higher up my pre-existing fan in my master bedchamber. Yous can read more about that past viewing the Two Piece Ceiling Medallion Installation.

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