Wiring Your Home: How to Wire Light Fixtures

hi I'm Robert her Dan with west oak style and i'm going to show you how to wire a light fixture the tools we'll need for this job are a Philips head screwdriver a flathead screwdriver a pair of wire cutters and needlenose pliers okay so the first thing you want to do before you actually start wiring the light fixtures make sure the power at the wall is turned off what you can do when the light is still up you can see that the light is off but in in electricity sometimes they have what they call a loop circuit so there could possibly still be a live wire so you need to have electric power tester this one I have is very small and it's easy it needs to have two little prong leads so that you can insert them without actually having to disconnect anything so what all I want to do here is I'm going to take this and I'm going to insert the black lead into the black probe and the red lead into the white probe and I can see that there is no light on so now I know there's no power here okay now that we have tested our wires and we can see that there's no power going to it it's now safe for us to continue now I have already brought the new wires up through the junction box here now this site here is marked with a little white spot which is showing us that this goes to our white wires and we will go ahead and mount that so I'll take the little wire nut off and now I'm putting it back on and when you're doing this you want to make sure that you you will feel it get tight once it gets tight and you got it tight then you want to make sure by pulling on the wire that nothing is loose because you're going to shove these back in there when you're done and you don't want the wire to pop out on you because then the light won't work and could possibly short out and cause a fire so all you have to do is just make sure that it is properly attached and that none of those things will happen so again you take the wire nut and you put it on the other side or black liner you just spin it until it's nice and tight then check once again at the wire isn't coming out then you know you're secure at that point what we're going to do is we're going to take our wires and we're going to push them back up into our junction box here and I'll push the white wires back up into the junction box here and then once again just go ahead and check and make sure everything looks wired and nothing's loose once you got that done you have now completed the wiring to our wiring project hi I'm Robert herd an owner of West oak style and we have just shown you how to wire a light fixture

Channel: ehowhome

Views: 1,200,948

Keywords: electric, bathroom, around the house

Id: zYqgRST35pI

Length: 3min 3sec (183 seconds)

Published: Wed May 13 2015