How to Replace a Ceiling Light Socket

1) Infer the indispensable tools and parts. Ought substitute a gleam socket at the ceiling, you'll need some basic electrician's tools ought infer the occupation safely. It's good ought have:

• A razor, ought chop almost fixture if there's paint
• Linemans pliers
• Screwdriver
• Non-contact voltage tester
• Wire strippers
• Extra line nuts

2) Disconnect the energy by flipping the breaker. Any time you're working with electricity, you need ought locate the breaker that corresponds ought that special fixture and finish it off. You can examination the energy by flipping the gleam switch and making certain that it doesn't carry on. It's too a good opinion ought avail a non-contact voltage tester ought pattern certain the fixture isn't getting power.

3) Touch any cup covers or shades. Decorative fixtures alike globes will need ought be removed first, gently unscrewing or unfastening the connections and putting the sheet aside. You energy need ought avail a screwdriver, besides most fixtures will possibly impartial avail thumbscrews that you can touch by hand. touch the lightbulb or bulbs, too ought disclose the socket itself during examination.

4) Lower the fixture and allow it hang ought examine the connections. You need ought table out how the fixture is attached ought the ceiling, ago you proceed unscrewing it. Most fixtures are attached at one of two ways. The first manner involves foolish screws that proceed along the fixture into the junction box at the ceiling. The second involves a threaded mail that extends along the fixture from after and attaches with a decorative cap nut, always a tiny knob at the heart of the fixture.

5) Touch the screws or mail connecting the socket. There are typically two or three screws holding the fixture itself ought the bracket. Lower the fixture down, exposing the line connections. Once the fixture is down, avail your hands or pliers ought undo the line nuts.

• Wire nuts are the elastic cone-looking pieces covering the ends of where the wires start together, connecting the dark and white wires coming from the fixture ought the wires coming from the ceiling. There energy too be a base line from the fixture attached ought the metal of the junction box at the ceiling by a screw.

6) Divide the wires coming out of the ceiling and abandon the junction box alone. The junction box is a round, square or octagonal box, always made of plastic, at the ceiling below where the fixture used ought be. Normally there will be white and dark wires.

7) Write down which wires are connected ought which and label them. No complete fixtures are a foolish put of wires coming into the box, especially at big houses. Some fixtures are wired at similar with others, making the tangle somewhat confusing. The wires from the fixture will the connected ought wires of the too color coming from the ceiling. at some countries, various color codes use ought wires, especially at older installations.

8) Pattern certain the ends of the wires from the fixture are stripped almost 1/2". If they are not, carefully touch the rubber covering from the 1/2" of the ends of the wires using line strippers.

• Some of the wires can be loose, or you can need ought avail pliers ought untwist them. If ends of wires are damaged or bent, you can need ought clip them and strip them again.

1) Prep the new fixture by removing cup cover and bulbs. The wiring from the fixture to be exposed and ready ought be attached. It's sometimes helpful ought put the new fixture above something ought permit you ought trade above it without it hanging down, if possible, alike the climax of a ladder.

• The length of the exposed line to competition the manufacturers hint during the line nuts, always almost 3/8ths ought ½ at of exposed wire.

2) Couple the wires ought the new fixture. The wires to be reattached at the too places during the old fixture, always white ought white, dark ought black, and base (bare copper) ought the metal junction box. Fair wire usually white should be attached ought fair wire. Stoop the wires two or three epoch together clockwise, or the too bid you carry the line nuts.

• You can avail also the old line nuts or the new ones provided with the fixture. Ought avail the line nut, lay the stripped ends of each line next ought each other, with their points facing the too direction. Then lay the line nut above the ends and stoop clockwise until the wires are secured interior the line nut.

3) Pattern certain no exposed line is sticking out below the line nuts. If there is, also touch the nut, tidy the exposed end, and substitute the nut, or cover with electrician's tape. Agreement a rapid tug above each line ought pattern certain they're no going ought start loose.

4) Fold complete the wires backward gently into the junction box. Once complete connections are made, gently tuck them backward into the box during you're lifting the fixture up. You don't expect ought overstuff. Once the majority of your wires are at the box, you can loosely screw at the fixture ought the bracket. Once it's installed besides no fully tightened, pattern certain you won't pinch any wires and tighten the fixture.

5) Examination your work. Once your fixture is installed ought the bracket, you'll install the bulb following manufacturers recommendations almost the wattage. Then you can flip above the circuit and restrain your work.

• If it doesn't carry on, most responsible culprit is a loose connection. restrain ought pattern certain that the wires didn't start loose noiseless you were tucking them into the box. Also, restrain that bulb is the healthful classify or that another switch isn't interfering with anything.