How To Wire A Ceiling Fan/light To Two Separate Switches?
Look at the instructions and see what wire controls the light and which one controls the fan. If the box in your ceiling is not wired for two circuits you will need to pull wire in to make this work. I am assuming what was or is in the ceiling is controlled by one switch. You need a 3 conductor wire going to that box and down to your switch. You will have a red, black, white and a ground. You will use the red wire for the fan, or the light which ever you want, and the black wire for the other. Your neutrals get tied to the white wire and the ground gets hooked to the ground wire on the fan. So at the switch you have power coming into the switch box. Hook one side of both switches, if you are using two separate switches, to the hot wire in the switch box. It is usually a black wire. On the other side of your switches you will put the fan on one and the light on the other. If you have a double all in one switch you hook the power wire to the black screw then put the wire going to your fa
