"John Grabowski" wrote in message
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"Nate Nagel" wrote in message
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Does anyone make an extension ring rated for hanging ceiling fans? Am
about to dive into rewiring upstairs bedrooms, and one of the things I'd
like to do is change the ceiling fixture boxes for fan-rated ones. Given
my druthers, I'd put extension rings on them as well, seeing as the house
was originally wired with switch legs so there's lots of wires in your
average ceiling box (and that is also the logical place to splice into a
circuit for future additions.) But before I truck down to the Real
Electrical Supply Place (which involves getting up at 0-dark-hundred so
as not to be late for work) I wanted to make sure they existed.


*I have never seen a fan rated extension box. There are deep fan boxes
available though, 4"octagonal x 2 1/8" deep. I think that I have seen
them at Home Depot.

That's the biggest I've seen too. Side bracket deep 4" round box. I suppose,
if he really needed the space, he could mount a deep 1900 box to a block of
wood and drill out the ring collar and through bolt it. As long as the box
isn't the "sole support" of the fan, it's OK.