Presuming you don t have access to the ceiling fan from above you must either use a specially rated hanger and box to mount the fan between joists or better yet screw a fan rated pancake box so called because it s very thin directly to a ceiling joist.
Can you mount a ceiling fan directly to a joist.
Or as the engineers would say.
Compromise the integrity of the joist.
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Finally you could apply a pancake box directly centered under a joist but then you have to patch the old hole.
Rather than moving it to the side 6 inches and making it asymmetrical is there a way to attach the fans directly to the joist.
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Yet another option is to install a piece of mdf on the ceiling surface that spans the joists.
The edges and corners can have nice details cut into them so that once painted the piece becomes a halfway decent decorative element.
Install ceiling fan directly joist.
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