JP512: Chandelier-230v E14 3x15W 3..JP513: Chandelier-230v E14 5x15W 5..JP514: Chandelier-230v E14 9x15W 9..jp516: Chandelier-230v E27 3x14W 3..JP517: Chandelier-230v E27 5x14W 5..JP519: Chandelier-230v E14 9x14W 9..KE01: Ceiling light fluorescent -.. read :: It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaperHow to Install a Light Fixture Hanging a new light fixture is a simple way to change the look of your room, and it's a project you can do yourself. Follow these steps for installing a light fixture for an updated look in no time. Everything in this slideshow Replacing a light fixture is an easy way to update the look of your space. If possible, try to do this job during the daylight hours so there's natural light to help you see what you're doing. Find a sturdy stepstool or ladder that can safely support you within easy reaching distance of the ceiling. Lessen the weight of the existing fixture as much as possible by removing any heavy glass globes or other parts.

Turn Off the Circuit You want to make sure no electrical current is flowing to the light fixture. Be sure the fixture you are replacing is turned on, then find your home's electrical service panel lined with fuses or circuit breakers. antique crystal chandeliers cheltenhamStart at the top of the box, and remove and replace each fuse or flip each circuit breaker to off momentarily. chandelier kufHave someone watch for when the fixture's light turns off, and leave that circuit disconnected. pottery barn milk bottle chandelier for saleBack in the room where you're working, flip the light switch on and off to double check the circuit is offline. To start, loosen the nut that holds the metal plate covering the junction box (the plastic or steel box within the ceiling that houses the connected electrical wires).

Pull the wires down from the junction box, and turn the plastic wire nuts on the wires counterclockwise until they unscrew from the wires completely. Holding the weight of the fixture in one hand, remove the screws that hold the thin metal crossbar to the junction box with the other hand. Remove crossbar and light fixture. Leave only a hole with wires and the junction box behind. Attach the crossbar supplied with the new fixture, and thread the nipple through its center hole. Onto the end of the nipple, thread the screw collar loop. The nipple needs to extend far enough below the ceiling that you can attach the collar loop to it. To check the placement of the nipple, place the canopy tight against the ceiling. Be certain you still have enough exposed thread on the collar loop to secure the collar nut. The fixture will come with more chain than you need. To shorten the chain, first hang the fixture from the collar loop. Then hold it at its hanging height and mark with tape the chain link above the one you need to open.

Remove the link below the one marked with tape by bending it open using two locking pliers. Remove the Canopy and Collar Loop from Nipple Connect the new end of the chain to the loop atop the light fixture (not shown) using the special link provided with the new fixture. Then weave the fixture's insulated wire and bare ground wire through the length of chain, going in and out of each link. At the top end of the chain, weave the wire through the collar nut and canopy (shown). Wires Go Through Loop and Nipple Thread the wire through the collar loop and nipple so all of the excess wire extends into the junction box. Do the same for the bare ground wire. Hang Chain on Collar Loop Bend all the wires down and out of the junction box so you can work with them, and hang the end chain link onto the collar loop. Split the fixture wire into two for its last 6 inches -- you can do this by grasping the ends of the two wires and pulling them in opposite directions.

Strip about 1/2 inch of plastic coating off the ends of both fixture wires. Connect the white wire in the ceiling to the white wire on the fixture, and the black wire on the fixture to the red or black wire in the ceiling. Twist their ends together, and tightly secure them with the wire nuts that came with the fixture. Attach Wire to Crossbar About 4 inches from the end of the fixture ground wire, twist it around the ground screw (leaving a few inches untwisted) on the crossbar, and tighten the screw. Then join the end of that wire with the end of the supply ground wire in the ceiling using a wire nut. Secure Canopy to Ceiling Carefully tuck all the wires back into the junction box, keeping the connections to the black/red and white supply wires well separated. Raise the canopy to the ceiling and secure it with the collar nut. Wondering why your light won't turn on? Make sure you head back to your circuit breaker and replace the fuse or flip the circuit to the on position.

Congratulations on your DIY job! 10 Tricks to Improve Your Lighting 10 Tricks to Improve Your LightingYou know replacing an old light fixture can change the look of a whole room. Now the light in our kitchen was out dated, and it was pretty simple. But there was a surprise along the way. I’m not too bothered by it. Now when I dreamed about having a home of my own…I imagined myself out here in the shop chisel in hand, the smell of wood wafting through the air, but like a lot of guys it not always my projects I get to work on.  My wife Lynn has a list of her own, and at the top of it , another kitchen project.  It’s kind of Tuscanesque. I really, really hate it. How about this, we’ll take down this timeless classic, and try another timeless classic. I’ll buy another one, you take this down. It’s like an old friend. I’ll get you another friend. Okay but the new friend has got to be like an old friend. Well the first thing I want to do is run down to the basement, and trip the circuit breaker on this.

Now I have worked on light fixtures like this, just by turning off the switch, but I always feel better if I just turn the power off the circuit breaker, and so no power here, I’m going to start to clear things away. Now this is a pretty simple job. All I’ve really got to do, it go up here and take off this canopy, and then expose the electrical box. And then cut the wires. Oh I don’t believe this. There’s supposed to be an electrical box right up here. Now that box, would be attached normally if there was one there, to a ceiling joist or a piece of bracing, instead this bracket is just held to the ceiling with these 2 small plastic anchors, and the entire weight of that fixture was being born by these. Now I’m gonna move the light fixture from here, over to here, because I want to get the tables a little bit further away from the walls. I’m just drawing a circle there to give me the location. Now we’ve got our opening cut for the box. Now we’ve got to find a way to attach this securely, and I’ve got a special bracket for that.

Now this is the bracket that’s going to keep that box secure in the ceiling, and I think the best way for me to explain how this works, is to use um, kind of a mock up of what the ceiling is like. Imagine that this hole right here is the hole that I cut in the ceiling. And we would be looking up at the ceiling this way, and if we could see the ceiling from the top, well it would look something like this. It would be a couple of joists then I cut across the top of the drywall. And then the box would fit right here, just like you saw a moment ago. Now the bracket installs from below. You actually reach up through the hole like this. Then once it’s in position. I’m going to rotate this bar, and as I do this, if you’ll notice the very ends of this bracket are expanding outward. And there are some very sharp pointed ends there, that are now just beginning to dig into the side of the ceiling joist. Next I’m going to take this bracket and insert it into the hole right here. This is, and it’s going to go up and over the bar that we put in earlier.

And we’ll slide this up, to there, and we’ll take the, I’ll take the box, and slide it up into the ceiling, and over these 2 bolts. Now the wiring here is pretty basic, we’ve got the hot wire here the black one. Common or neutral, the white one. So we’ve got them all separated. Or free of the covering, now I’m just going to strip off the insulation, and give myself oh maybe an inch. Well I want to take care of this big hole now. This is just a strip of wood here, I’ve drilled a couple of holes, and I’m gonna put a little glue on it, like this. Now I’ll take a piece of wire, this is the one that we cut off of the wire that was sticking out of the ceiling. And we’ll push the piece of wood up inside. And kind of pull down on it. Now I want to apply a little pressure here while this dries. Now for shallow repairs I could use something like spackle. But  deep hole like that, I’m going to use something else. This is called a setting type joint compound. That can actually be used for doing taping work.

The thing is this sets up pretty quickly. This versions 45 minutes, you can get it to set up in as quick as 15 minutes. Oh you went for something very uh… Well I wanted something very traditional. That’s what I was thinking of. I don’t like things that are very shiny so it has sort of a softened patina.Now I’ve made a temporary hook out of a piece of hanger right there, I’m going to hang the chandelier up so I don’t have to hold onto it. And, first thing I want to do is pass these wires through this threaded nipple, like that. And I’m going to take the wires, and go up through our bracket, and then back down. Okay now, we’ll make our wiring connections. Now this is our ground wire right here. Bring it around the grounding screw right here. Okay now so the ground wires attach to the fixture, and to the strap and to the box. All I have to do now is make a connection between the wires coming out of the ceiling and the ones going into the lamp. Fold them and put them up inside.