Handy Man How-To With Agent Aaron Bergeron! How to Replace a Light Fixture
Tools Required
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Wire Stripper
Voltage Detector
Step 1: Turn off the appropriate breaker Find your breaker box. It’s likely situated in your garage or unfinished room in your basement. Push the appropriate breaker to the off position until it clicks. If your breakers aren’t labeled appropriately, you may have to try a couple before finding the right one. This is why you turn the light on first – to ensure you know when you have flipped the correct breaker. (The light fixture will turn off.)
Step 2: Test the voltage of the old fixture
Turn your voltage detector on. Touch the tip to a wire or outlet or switch or fixture that you know is “hot” or currently has power running to it. The voltage detector should flash and beep at you to tell you it’s definitely “hot”. This ensures that your detector isn’t malfunctioning. With the voltage detector still on, climb your ladder and touch the detector to the old light fixture to make sure that NO current is moving through the wires. Step 3: Remove the old fixture Carefully remove the shade of the old light fixture. Use a screwdriver if necessary. Dome lights. The very tip is a nut that will screw off by hand. Schoolhouse lights often have a lip near the opening where bolts will snug into. Loosen the bolts to disconnect the schoolhouse shade. PAUSE when you see the exposed wires. E.g. black wire(s), white wire(s), bare copper ground wire(s). Wire nuts should be connecting the base of the old fixture to the wires coming out of the electrical ceiling box.
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