How to Install Artika Edwin LED Ceiling Fan from Costco

Welcome to Mother of our Projects, I'm Steph. Today I'm going to show you how to install an enclosed ceiling fan with light. I'll also show you how to swap out a ceiling fan support box for a larger one, how to adjust all the fan and light settings, and I'll share something that you must do before you finish install or you'll have to go back and fix it later, like I unfortunately discovered. Here's my current fan. I installed this 10 years ago when I moved into my house and it's been great, but I don't love the look of the exposed fan blades and I really wanted an upgrade. This is the fan I'll be installing today. I ordered this from Costco.com for $200. Here's everything that was included in the box. It also came with a remote control. I've installed many fans and lights on my own and uncomfortable doing so, but if you're not, please hire a certified electrician to do this and always refer to the product manual for safety and install info. First, I turned off the power at the junction box, then I unscrewed the top of the old fan and pulled it down. Now I'm removing the old mount from the old fan and here's the new mount. I realized that it's bigger than the current ceiling fan support box that I have. We've run into this issue previously where we've had a three inch support box, but we needed a four inch. Mom headed to the Home Depot for me and grabbed a four inch fan support box, also known as a pancake. You can see this fits it perfectly. I knocked out one of the circles that'll have my electrical run through. Then I removed the old pancake. I'm using this plastic sheeting to help protect drywall from getting on my bed. You can see there was a two by four on the ceiling that this was attached to, and this is where I'll be attaching the new one to as well. I put the new pancake in place and traced around it. I'm going to cut on the inside of the line, making sure not to cut bigger than the support itself. I'm using a multi-tool to cut around the drywall. Also, a four inch hole saw would have worked well. Now I'm using an impact driver to fully secure the pancake to the framing in the ceiling. Then I easily attach the new mount to the four inch pancake. I'm using a RYOBI USB screwdriver as it's very light duty and basically gives a little extra power so I don't have to use a manual screwdriver to place this. The manual also showed driving a couple more screws into the mount to support it to the ceiling. Next, I prepared the fixture for install. I prepared the downrod per the manual. Again, I'm using that light duty RYOBI USB screwdriver. I fed the wiring through the downrod and secured it. I laid everything in place according to the manual, then took the fixture and placed it on the ceiling mount. It comes with a clip you can attach the fan to the mount before it's officially secure, then wire it up. Normally you have to wire the ceiling wire to the remote box and the remote box to the fan, but this fan has it even more streamlined. So this box right here is for your remote system and it just plugs in with this white cable into the fan. Then I just have to wire the other end to the ceiling wiring. I'm using WAGO connectors to connect the two wires together. These are much easier and more secure than wire nuts. The biggest challenge is always getting the wires put into the cover and then screwing the cover in place. It was at this point that I realized it was really hard to get a screwdriver into this location because it needs to be really short, but I happened to find this shorter screwdriver that worked okay. You'll need to leave the screws out just a touch because the smaller ring secures to the heads of those screws. There is something I should have done right here, but I didn't know it at the time, so stay tuned to the end where I'll show you what you need to do before you finish this project. But next I unwrapped the cellophane that was on the light. I kept this till the end so I didn't get anything scratched. Then I went to turn the junction box back on and it powers on. Here I'm testing out the remote. First there's an on-off button to turn on the fan and light at the same time, but you can also independently control the fan and the light. There's three speeds for the fan and in the middle there's an on-off button for just the fan. You can also reverse the fan to go backwards or forwards and there's also a timer for the fan in the middle. You can also make the light brighter or dimmer. It's hard to tell on camera, but it is a nice adjustment of light and I usually keep my light about mid-level as full brightness is a little too bright. There is an audible beat that sounds every time you push the remote. The first night that I slept in my room with this new fan I saw a little bit of light coming from the canopy where it meets the ceiling. I noticed this for the first few nights and it was really annoying, but I wasn't exactly sure what was happening. So I ended up taking the canopy down but leaving the power on at the junction box and lo and behold I found that there's a little green light on the black box inside of the canopy that illuminates when the fixture has power. This darn light is really bright through the canopy and I'm not sure why it's here, but my solution was to grab a piece of electrical tape and place it right over that green light. So before you put the canopy on, make sure you put a piece of tape over that lighted area so you don't have to go back and do that later. What we learned! Now this whole fixture is actually made out of hard plastic, even the blades themselves, which makes it nice and light so it's easy for install, but it's not made out of metal like some enclosed fans are. This fixture has an integrated LED light, which means it's not replaceable. So if this light goes out, I'll have to replace the whole fixture, but I'm hoping to get about 10 years out of this fixture, which is how long I got out of my original one before I wanted to change to modernize it a little bit. I have noticed when the fan is on at night, it's a little bit louder than my original fan was and I think it's just because it's a smaller footprint, so it makes a little bit more noise. So if noise bothers you, this might not be a good option. I wear earplugs when I sleep, so it's not a big deal for me. Overall, I'm pretty happy with this fan and it's a nice upgrade. If that changes in the future, I'll be sure to do a project update. Alright, thanks for joining. 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