Gentlemen: I am planning to install a ceiling fan in an upstairs bedroom. Above this bedroom is the attic with sufficient workable space. This a California home (2400 sq ft) with the furnace in the attic. There are two forms of electrical power in the attic - a double receptacle with one being used to plug in the furnace...the other is unused, and there is a single light bulb fixture. My questions are: Is it proper to run power from the light fixture to the ceiling fan? Or, would it be better to run the power from the receptacle? If so, what type, size, etc wire would I use to insure adequate safety in this installation? Will the fan then have direct power without being conrolled by the light switch? Distance from the proposed ceiling fan installation to the power is 22 feet. Thank you, Tony :confused:

Ok, this is the current setup. 2 switches in on box on the wall. Switch 1 (S1) controls an outlet on the wall. Switch 2 (S2) controls the ceiling fixture. S2 has two wires attached to it. A black wire and a red wire. Out of the ceiling fixture, there is a single red wire, white wires in a group, black wires in a group and a single bare ground wire. The ceiling fan with light has the standard blue, black, white, and green ground wire. My question is how do i wire this thing up, as the red wire is throwing me off? If i connect blue to red, the blacks to black, whites to white, and ground to ground, i have power only to the light fixture using switch S2. I want to leave it so that S2 controls the ceiling fan and light (i will use the pull strings to turn on and off the fan or lights). There was no light fixture in the ceiling, it was just pre-wired so you could hang a fan. Any ideas? Thanks Karl