How do I remove receptacle from my ceiling and replace it with hardwired light?
T This receptacle on the ceiling is powered on and off by a light switch on the wall. How do I remove it and hard wire a light fixture in its place so that the light switch will turn the new light fixture on and off?
Turn off the circuit breaker that feeds that circuit.
Take down the existing light.
Remove the outlet's cover plate and the outlet.
You will/should have a black, white and bare copper conductor which can be connected to your new hardwired fixture with wire nuts.
You have a rectangular electrical box but most ceiling fixtures are designed to work with a round box. It's not that big a problem. Many fixtures come with adapter plates that have long slots & holes to allow a lot of flexibility in mounting.
Depending on how your existing light was installed you may have some screw holes in the sheetrock to patch if you want.
Something set it off and it did not trip anything in the elec. panel but I cannot push the test button in. I can push the reset button fine, but not the test button.
I bought a new one but it's the wrong color. What I thought I would do temporarily until I can take the new one back was install a regular outlet. I did that and nothing. No elec. to the outlet next to the sink, no elec. to the two lights in the bathroom or the outlet in the bath room. I know these are on the same circuit. I have elec. everywhere else. It's the outlet next to the sink that went bad.
Any help? I can return and get the right color on Monday and install on Tues. But, will there be elec.? I switched all the breakers off and on in the panel.
Also, the old GFCI was 20a and the new one is 15a; don't know if that matters.
I'm NOT electrically savvy.
Thank You!
I have a spider and harp (I think) lampshade that's missing the middle piece as shown in the pictures. The ends are flat like there used to be something that attached there, not that they're broken. Is it possible to buy this piece, and if so what's it called and where can I get it?
If not, I guess I'd need to fabricate something or get a new lampshade.
Thanks in advance.
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