A pendant light will add a decorative touch to your bathroom.
Pendant lights hang from their electrical cords and add a decorative touch as well as provide adequate lighting. Pendant lights work well as supplemental lighting in a bathroom. Over time, light fixtures start to look out of date. For example, gold plating popular in the 1970s has lost its appeal for some homeowners. You can quickly replace an old pendant light in your bathroom with a new pendant light.
Instructions
1. Turn off the breaker that controls the bathroom. Double-check to ensure the light has no power by turning the electrical switch for the pendant light on and then back off. If the light comes on, you did not turn off the correct breaker.
2. Unscrew the fastener that holds the canopy against the ceiling, lower the canopy down the wire and rest it against the pendant light. In many cases, the fastener is a thumbscrew and requires no tools for removal.
3. Pull the wires down out of the electrical box mounted in the ceiling and remove the wire nuts from the groups of wires. There will be one group of green or copper wires for the ground, one group of black wires and one group of white wires. Pull the wires apart.
4. Pull the cord out of the threaded bracket and place the pendant light off to the side.
5. Remove the screws that hold the pendant light mounting bracket to the electrical box with a screwdriver. Place the new mounting bracket against the electrical box and mount it with the supplied screws and a screwdriver.
6. Slide the canopy supplied with the new pendant light onto the cord of the new pendant light.
7. Push the cord up through the threaded portion of the mounting bracket. The more you pull through the bracket, the closer to the ceiling the pendant light will remain. When you are happy with the distance, cut off the excess cord cutters.
8. Strip approximately an inch of the coating off each of the wires inside the electrical cord. Use wire strippers for this.
9. Attach the green or copper wires together with a wire nut. Attach the black wires together with a wire nut and attach the white wires together with a wire nut. Tuck the wires into the electrical box.
10. Slide the canopy against the ceiling and secure it with the supplied fastener.
11. Thread an incandescent light bulb into the fixture on the pendant light and restore power to the light via the breaker panel.
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