How do you install a bathroom fan and light on separate switches instead of one switch?

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Quote from Youtube video: If I have enough wires in here I'll be able to put the vanity light on one switch which I would like it to be the upper switch. And I'll put the fan on the lower switch.

Can you replace a fan switch with a light switch?





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Quote from Youtube video: In order to replace the chain is this little switch in the middle here. And it's very easy to take out all you need to do is unscrew the screw that holds.

How do you separate light switches?

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  1. Get a 2-gang box to replace your existing 1-gang box.
  2. Get a new switch.
  3. Remove your existing box and install the 2-gang box in its place.
  4. Run your supply hot wire to both switches.
  5. Connect the light/fan hot wire to one switch and the exterior light to the other.
  6. Join all neutrals and ground wires.

How do you separate a light switch from a fan?

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Quote from Youtube video: This you have a sufficient number of wires to run the light and the fan on separate switches. So i'm going to take this. Off. Okay so that's the wago lever nut just came right off.