This may be a pashute question, but I want reassurance. A friend offered to swap out a light fixture and replace it with a ceiling fan. He showed me the wiring and said that he could connect the wires so that the light would be controlled by both the wall switch and the pull chain, but the fan itself would only be controlled by the pull chain (this would be the ideal set up for me because there is only one wall switch).
This is how he wants to do the connection: The current fixture has two ends of wire, each end having a black and a white wire (and a bare ground wire). The ground wires are connected to each other and the metal part of the fixture. The black wire from one end of wire and the white end from the other end of wire are connected to the fixture’s wires. The other two wires are connected to each other. He said that this is a spliced wire that continues through the ceiling to other rooms and he can connect the fan to the splice, making it live and therefore operated independently of the switch. The light wire and the white return wire he would connect normally to the same black and white wires the old fixture used.
Does this sound right to the experts here? Should I trust him to do it this way, or should I tell him to just do the basic connection (i.e. fan and light wires connect to black hot wire and both are controlled by the switch).
Thanks!