Hello, First time posting here. I've wired a number of ceiling fans and light fixtures with standard wiring, but I recently purchased a new construction home and the ceiling fan prewire is done in a way I haven't experienced. I've included pictures of the ceiling box and the switch box but I'll also describe the wire setup here: Ceiling box - 1 14/3 wire coming out (1 black, 1 white marked with black tape, 1 red, and 1 ground) Switch box - 2 switches. 2 14/3 wires and 1 14/2 wire. All white wires bundled together. 1 red wire going to the bottom screw of the left switch (this switch also controls the top 1/2 of a plug in the room). 1 black wire goes to the bottom screw of the right switch (the red wire from this cable goes nowhere, it's standalone). All the black wires are bundled together and 2 jumper wires go from the black bundle to the remaining two screws of the two switches. And we also have the ground wires bundled and going to the respective ground screws of the switches. Now for my questions. 1) Was this wired correctly? I'm assuming yes but I haven't encountered this so I just want to make sure the builder wired it correctly. 2) If it was done correctly, can someone explain why it was wired this way? Why is the white wire from the ceiling marked hot? Why is there a standalone red wire in the switch box going nowhere? 3) Although I prewired for a ceiling fan, I am going to put up a regular light fixture for now. From what I see, the way the wiring is currently done, I can only wire the light fixture to be operated by the right switch, correct? At the ceiling box, I'd wire the white wire marked as hot to the black wire and the black wire to the white wire (and cap the red wire)? If I wire it this way, the light fixture works (I just want to confirm that this is the proper way to wire it). I don't think the left switch, as presently wired, can control the ceiling light, correct? 4) If I later decided to wire a ceiling light and fan so that one switch operates the ceiling light and the other switch operates the ceiling fan, what would I need to do? In this scenario, I'd probably want one switch to control both the ceiling light and the top 1/2 of the one plug. Sorry for the long post! Tried to get as much detailed information in here in order to receive a good answer. Thank you in advance! :) [ATTACH]82039[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]82040[/ATTACH]

Just bought a house and have a confusing situation concerning the wiring of a ceiling fan with light kit. I installed 4 of this model fan in the house with no problem but then encountered a situation where the fan works when turning on one switch, but the other switch did not activate the lights. I removed the switchplate and toggled the breaker while using my tester and validated that one set of black/red wires are [U]not[/U] hot. Was thinking maybe they needed to be connected to the ones that are (powering the fan) but not sure if that's the correct approach. I have attached a pic of what's going on behind the wall plate. The switch on the left is powering the fan successfully. The wires on the right were just capped off in the box and were not connected at all to the switch that was on the right, which I assume is needed to power the light kit. For reference, at the ceiling fan box I connected Black/Black, White/White, Gnd/Gnd, and Red(house supply) to Blue (from fan) per the instructions and my several previous successful installs. Supposed to move in this week and would love to get it resolved before then, so thanks in advance! -Andrew [ATTACH]82158[/ATTACH]