Adventures in Fan Installation

We bought Allie a pretty, new fan this morning. We spent a little bit more (because its not our money) and got a Hunter five minute fan. It came mostly assembled. Boy were we naive to think it would be a quick project.

When Dan took down the fan, we discovered one screw into the edge of a joist and the rest of the screws in mollies. There was no electrical box, no support for the fan. I can't believe it hadn't fallen on someone's head. Back to Lowes Dan went to get a fan brace so that we could put the fan up safely. What started as a quick project turned into a 5 hour ordeal. I climbed up in the attic to check out the other fans. Jaelyn and master bedroom fans seem to be okay, but Caden's is hung up with toggle bolts. Crazy, stupid people. It will be added to the handyman's long list of projects.