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The florescent light in my kitchen is broken and needs to be replaced. Is this hard to do? I am just switching out the old one and putting the new one in its place. I should be able to manage this, yes?
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The florescent light in my kitchen is broken and needs to be replaced. Is this hard to do? I am just switching out the old one and putting the new one in its place. I should be able to manage this, yes?
Is the blub broken or the actual fixture?
If it's the fixture, just get something similar at Home Depot. It should be easy to replace and dont forget to turn off the power!
I have replaced 4 fixtures at my house. First one I was pretty nervous about dealing with the electrical wiring, but after you do one you figure out how simple it is.
Make absolutely sure you have turned off the correct breaker. I speak from personal experience here. if in doubt, turn off the master.
Only way you could get a shock is if they had more than one circuit in the box and you opened up wires that weren't attached to the fixture.
Yes re-reading my post makes my electrical wiring sound pretty suspect.
The problem in my case was that the box in the ceiling where I was hanging the light had multiple configurations possible. One set of wires was for plugging into the wall switch where the light could be controlled. however, there was another hot wire for use, which was not controlled by the switch. You could use this line if you didn't want to use the switch, for example, if you were hanging a fan that you wanted to use a pull switch connected to the fan. This line was always hot - so turning off the wall switch and not turning off the breaker could result in quite a nice surprise.
Only way you could get a shock is if they had more than one circuit in the box and you opened up wires that weren't attached to the fixture.
Not necessarily, it's pretty common in houses to have more than one lightswitch control the same fixture. So you turn one off but the other one is still hot. Assuming you're replacing a fixture because it doesn't work, you don't know that it's hot.
My electrician always uses that thing that looks like a pen, it buzzes to tell you if the circuit is live or not.
40 should have phrased it, a Master electrician such as myself could do it by just turning off the light switch. The rest of you electrically challenged dorks should have the power company shut down the entire city grid.
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