The ceiling fan in my room is wobbling and it is making so much noise that it's keeping me up at night. I have to either leave the TV on to drown it out or turn the fan off and wake up sweating in the middle of the night. I think it's because one of the blades is uneven with the other blades and that's causing it to wobble. The ceiling is vaulted, so it hangs down by a long pole, which of course makes it wobble even more and make more noise. Anyone know of a quick and/or easy way to fix this besides replacing the fan?
Did you install it? If so, or if you feel comfortable doing it, take the motor down and make sure the plate that attaches to the ceiling is secure. There are weights that you can purchase to place on the fan blades. Any Lowes or Home Depot would have them. I just had a problem with a fan that the blades had come loose from the motor, and was causing the fan to sway. Tightening the screws did the trick.
Fine. Superglue a cat to one of the fanblades. The screeching of the cat will drown out the loudness of the wobble.
Start with the simplest solution first, check for any loose screws. I'm assuming it has a light fixture, sometimes the screws on the glass might comes loose or they weren't tightened when you changed a light bulb. I'm no expert, but that has worked for me on different fans on multiple instances of wobbeling.
If you feel you're competent enough...take the bottom plate off & re-mount the blades. Tighten up any/all screws you see. Failing that, you can tape a penny (pennies) to the offending blade (blades), you'll have to use trial & error to find out the proper weight distribution.
Once a ceiling fan came loose and almost hit my cousin on the head. The wires attached to the fan, stopped the fan about 3 inches of bonking him on the head. Good times!
I don't think it's the motor. I didn't install it, but when it spins, I can see that the blades don't rotate on the same plane, if that makes sense. I tightened every screw I saw last night and it didn't work. I didn't see screws that attached the blades, only covers. Maybe I have to take the little covers off to get to the screws. It was midnight when I tried to fix it last night, so I didn't want to get too involved. It has 5 blades. So if one of them is too low, I would have to weigh down the other 4?
Uhhh... no... just add weight to the opposite blade or blades, if the blades are odd numbered. Don't add weights to ALL of them. Add weight one blade, one penny at a time... it might take about 15 minutes to complete the entire procedure to get it just right. BEFORE, underline is HEAVY: 1 2 3 .5 4 AFTER, underline contain weights: 1 2 3 .5 4 (dot is to space out this illustration better)
