For questions generally relating to lamp holders, luminaires, and any other electrical device designed to use an electric lamp to provide artificial light in a home.
Questions tagged [light-fixture]
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How can I open or identify this lamp?
There's a lamp attached to the ceiling of the entrance to the garages of me and my neighbours, and its bulb needs to be replaced. The problem is: I have no idea how to open it.
There is no way to identify the manufacturer or model; it's simply not…
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How do I attach a motion activated flood light to stucco?
I have some simple motion activated battery powered lights that I bought at Costco a while ago. I want to install them outside the house in the front and back. The device comes with a small plastic mount that should go with screws into the wall.
Is…
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How to remove plastic junction box
Does anyone know how to remove this type of junction box from the ceiling from underneath?
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3.5" round box for wall sconces, cannot make work with many fixtures
My electrician on a remodel installed all 3.5" circular boxes throughout. I am finding that everything I want to install wants to have a 4" box. I have seen the spider plates, universal crossbars, nothing meets this particular issue:
The box holes…
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Looking for an alternative lightswitch, push button maybe?
I am going to mount a slate chalkboard on this rail. The slate is 60" which is the length of the rail as you see it.
As I get closer to the actual installation I am questioning my choice of dealing with the light switch. I was planning on cutting…
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How do I remove this so I can change the lightbulb?
This is a lot more complicated than I thought. I unscrewed the nipple, thinking the cover would slide right out, but no — nothing. Any ideas? I can't get a very good vantage point and am really hoping this can be done blindly from beneath.
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Removing the cover for this light fixture
There are three prongs that hold a dome shape cover together. One of the prong is spring loaded.
Normally, you would push the cover to the direction of the spring loaded prong, then the spring would extend enough and you can take out the cover.…
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How can I mount a new ceiling light fixture to this old hardware?
My house was built in 1928 and I found one of my ceiling lights was "mounted" to this (it was actually screwed into the ceiling; hope they didn't nick a wire).
I'm trying to figure out what this is, mostly so I know how is it attached to the ceiling…
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Pendant lights hanging crooked: How to make them hang straight
Got the light hung, but as you can see a number of the lights are not straight, anyone deal with this type of light before and have any idea how to make them straight? Just to clarify, I don't mean up and down, I mean they are twisted side to…
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What is this small cubic device in my recessed light housing?
I just replaced the light bulb in the recessed light and it is working.
I noticed this strange object.
What is it ?
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Can I mount a ceiling light fixture on a wall to a 1-gang rectangular box?
I want to replace a wall mounted light fixture. When I took it off the wall I realized the box behind it was a rectangular 1-gang:
The previous circular light was mounted to the wall with three screws into drywall.
The new light I bought is an LED…
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Can I easily work around this light fixture interference problem, or do I have to get on my landlord's back about it?
It may not be obviously visible in the shot, but the bulbs are pressing so hard into the edges of that fixture base that they barely make electrical contact before you feel you're about to break something screwing them in. At first I thought maybe…
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Unwire a light switch
I have a light switch in a weird place in my house. I'd like to remove the light switch itself and just wire it permanently on and cover it with a flat faceplate. I'd ideally like to actually leave it there for future owners of the house. I have the…
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How can I replace a glass shade on my bathroom vanity?
I was cleaning and caught my duster on my bathroom vanity light fixture. I must have pulled a bit too hard to release the duster because I managed to pull one of the frosted glass shades off the vanity.
How can I find who the manufacturer of the…
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What kind of bulbs does this lamp need?
I have recently gotten hold of a lamp that seems to require some weird bulbs. I can't seem to figure out what type of bulb goes in there... It looks like it could be in the G9 family, but there is no sleeve to insert the bulb in.
Here is a picture…
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