On Jun 25, 8:02*pm, "The Streets"
wrote:
I need to replace a ceiling fan that is suspended from
a high ceiling. *The ceiling is about 20 feet up and the
fan is on about a 6 foot down rod.

I can reach the fan motor OK with my 10 foot ladder.
But getting all the way to the ceiling mounting point
would require scaffolding.

Is there some safe and legal way to splice the wires
from a new fan motor to the existing wires in the
down rod so that I don't have to go all the way to
the ceiling to connect the new fan?

I don't have actual experience with this, but logic tells me the
original one was just wire nutted at the end of the down rod to begin
with. I did sell ceiling fans briefly when the first became popular in
the '80s & if someone wanted a down rod install, we sold them the same
fan we would have for a normal install, + a down rod kit.