New fan wiring issue

[spulaw]

I have a brand new fan with light fixture. The wires from the ceiling are all controlled by a single wall switch (meaning the light ans fan are operated together).

The fan/light unit only has black, blue and white (and green ground) wires. As per instructions, the black is the fan hot, the blue is the light hot, and (according to the manual) the white wire is "common for fan and light kit" (the green is the ground).

BUT, the ceiling (house) wiring includes a red wire (in addition to the black, white and ground). The instructions say to connect both the black and blue wires from the fan/light unit to the black wire from the house (assuming I want to operate with the pull chains). But what is the red wire for coming out of the house? What wire do I connect to that? Thank you for your help.

[JW]

There's not a switch on your wall that doesn't control anything? If there is, connect the light (blue wire) to the red house wire and you can control both the fan and the light independently. Otherwise I'd leave the red wire capped off.

[spulaw]

Will it hurt anything if I wire the light (blue wire) to the red house wire? I'm thinking the one wall switch controls bot the fan and light wires.....worse that would happen is the red wire is not connecteed to anything? Thank you for such a prompt reply, by the way. This is a good forum.

[spulaw]

Nvrmnd....I got no juice to the light using the red wire, but when I connected the blue and black from the fan/light to the black from the ceiling everything works fine - switch and all. Thanks again.

[Deleted]

Glad you got it working.