Hey YouTube Welcome and on today’s episode I have a vent fan in a bathroom that is not working anymore so this is what our bent fan looks like and I flip the switch nothing happens so I’m going to show you how to remove the cover pull the motor out and we can test it and then I’ll show you how to replace it this is your basic brone exhaust fan for a bathroom these are found all the time in apartments and homes.
There are larger models that have lights and stuff in them they’ll work about the same way but if there’s a light in it then there may be an extra step of removing the light portion in order to get to the fan motor for these you will just pull this cover plastic cover part down and it’ll kind of spring off of their it’s held in place by a couple of wire Clips there’s one on this side and one on this side to get those off this is difficult to film you pinch the wires together and then they’ll come out of that slot so like these have two little loops on the end and they go up into this slot and then when you push the plastic up to the top they spring out in there to hold the plastic up against the ceiling so there’s one on each side I took that one off and then we’ll take this one off of this side.
And that removes the cover next we’re going to look at the fan in here the fan is plugged in on the corner here so assuming it is plugged in then you’ll unplug it and we’re going to remove this whole plate that is has the motor attached to it to remove the fan motor in this whole plate you probably don’t need any tools but if it is caught on one of these screws like there’s a screw on the side here the housing is screwed into a ceiling joist you may need a screwdriver to sort of Pop the edge of that around a screw but if not then you won’t need any tools it’ll be clipped in the side here there’s little grooves in the side of the housing box that it is in there’s one here and on the opposite side here.
So what I’m going to do is kind of push out on the housing box until that pops out of there and I’m going to need two hands to do it so I’ll put the phone down so remove the motor I’m going to hang onto the motor with one hand and push out on the housing box on the side sort of wiggle it a little bit and then one of the sides will come off and then the other side just slips out what holds this plate in here are these parts that stick out on the side of the plate there’s one there there’s two on this side so by pushing on the housing by pushing on this the housing it pushes it out off of this part that sticks out and allows this whole piece to just kind of fall out of there before we just run out and buy a new motor or a new fan altogether I want.
To test this one and make sure that what is wrong with it is in fact actually the motor so what I’m going to do is take this plug and plug it into any outlet that I know works so I’ve got one here then I’m going to plug in the fan you want when you’re plugging it in make sure your fingers aren’t here in the fan anywhere I’ve plugged it in nothing happens so the fan motor is clearly not working if you were to plug this into a outlet that you know works and the fan starts spinning around then it wasn’t the fan motor that was the problem you might have a bad switch or something else so be sure and test this before you just run out and replace it otherwise you put a new one in there and it still won’t work now that we’ve established that our motor has in fact gone bad we’re going.
To order a replacement when ordering a replacement you can order just this whole piece but it only saves you about a dollar over ordering the whole kit the whole box the whole that comes with the new cover and everything so if you’re doing a basic fan like the one that we have here that is just the basic fan I would recommend getting the whole thing this is the bronze 688 uh when last time I looked these were 21 on Amazon uh you get the entire thing so you’ll get the whole housing and we’ll just have to pop this part out like we did on the old one and you get a new cover so you can put a new cover on their it’ll be all clean and shiny and new if you are doing a fan that.
Is a higher end model that it’s like a 100 fan or something you can just buy the motor so the motor part just the motor itself and I think it comes with another fan a new fan blade but for just the motor with the fan blade I think they were about nineteen dollars so you can order just the motor and replace it in the housing that you have and I will link that below I will put a link down there for just a motor replacement and I’ll also put a link for this basic fan that I’m installing today and I’ll put those down below you can order them on Amazon again if you’re ordering the basic one.
I would get the whole fan if you have a complicated fan or a more expensive higher end model then you can just order the motor and probably save yourself some money we have our new fan assembly and it comes inside the housing like the other one was so we’ll need to pop it out the same way the old one did sort of push out so that this pops off the side and then here’s the two flaps that are going the other side as you can see the new one and the old one look virtually identical so it should just be a direct replacement I’d be able to just pop this one back in the ceiling and.
Be all set when we go to put the new one in we’re going to want to line it up where there’s this square hole for the outlet so my outlet is in this corner right here so I’m going to put that square hole to the outlet corner now The Far Side from the outlet and it has the two tabs that stick out I’m going to slide those in up in their first and get those lined up with the slots where they go right here in the middle and then on the side and then I will push up the side that is toward me and I’m going to push it all the way up until it snaps in place foreign if you heard the little pop I hope I wasn’t in the way when it did it now that it’s in place I can go ahead and plug it in and.
I can now you’re going to want to put this hit the switch and try okay my fan did come on it came on it worked like it was supposed to so we’ll put the cover on to put the cover on if you flip the little spring a little spring things out the sides you pinch them and you slide them up in the slot you can do one at a time or you can try to do both slots at the same time I kind of prefer the one at a time method so you pinch the spring together and then it’ll go in the slot our final step is to push it up to the ceiling and there you go nice new shiny vent fan hope you found this helpful please like And subscribe and we’ll see you back here next time Rosco Reviews.
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