I recently bought a house with no existing ceiling outlets. Installed a ceiling fan and ran wiring to an existing light switch that controls an outlet in the room. I connected black to black, white to white and grnd to grnd. When I turn the switch on the receptacle is hot but neither the fan nor fan light operate. While measuring voltage I found between black and ground 0 volts and when I measured between white and ground 120v. The house is 30 years old, does this perhaps indicate that they ran white as the hot and black as the common or do I have other problems I am not aware of? Further information. The light toggel switch control one half of a duplex receptacle. The top receptacle has a black wire from cable 1 and white wire from cable 2in different slots. The bottom receptacle has a black wire from cable 2 and white wire from cable 1 in the same slot. There is a ground wire attached. There are two cables that feed in to the outlet box.

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