(Saturday I put up a ceiling fan, sounds easy, but it was a pain.) Liz, George next door ask me to help him install a ceiling fan over he kitchen table some years ago. Well as you said it is not easy. We did manage to get it installed, or so we though. The first time he turned it on the thing flew out of the ceiling like a bat out of hell. To our surprise and amazement nothing broke. We discovered rubber things that we forgot to install. That seemed to do the trick. When ever I visited George after that I stayed clear of the ceiling fan. You just never know. Mike