Moving Ceiling Light Fixture Box

Remove your light fixture.

Moving ceiling light fixture box.

Or if it s just lightweight like mine you can leave it and move onto step 3. Pull the fixture wires into the electric box and make connections. Detach the light fixture from the electrical box and slowly lower the light fixture. Pull the box out slightly while you tighten the screw to maintain the anchor in this position.

There s a few steps joe goes through when getting. Remove the existing light fixture junction box and turn it so that it is accessible from above. Then we turned off the power and disconnected the light from the fixture box. Turn one of the screws on the front of the box to rotate the plastic anchor in position against the back on the drywall.

Install the required length of new wiring to the new location for the light fixture. Fit the box into the hole until the front flange butts against the drywall. Remove the screws holding the box into place in the ceiling. The old junction box was located in the center of the laundry room but we wanted the light fixture to hang in the center of the doorway 36 from the ceiling.

Pull the box down and gently tug on the wires to see how much slack there is in them. Keep the cut out and use it to patch the existing opening. We had kind of forgotten where our beams were in the ceiling so we started off by drilling a couple of very small holes to see if we hit anything nothing but drywall and air and then took it a step further by cutting a small hole in the drywall big enough to slip. You ll be using a drywall mounted junction box which clamps directly to the ceiling drywall.

Remove the screws that attach the electrical box to the ceiling joist and remove the box from inside the. Make the opening in the ceiling for the new light fixture. Moving a ceiling fixture the easy way. How did we decide on 36.

We held up a tape measure and played around with what looked good.