How to Wire Clearance Lights

Updating an older home can be an expensive endeavor. Getting ceiling light fixtures on clearance can help to shave these costs. Installing the new clearance light fixtures is not that difficult, and should only take you an hour or less to do. The wiring is the most difficult part of the ceiling light installation as you need to match up the appropriate colors of wires to one another. Once the clearance light is wired in place it is easy to screw the light fixture to the electrical box.

Clearance light fixture
Wire strippers
Screwdriver

Instructions

- 1
  Locate the wires in the clearance light. Use wire strippers to remove about 1/2 inch of plastic sheathing from the ends of the wires. This will enable you to connect the wiring to the wiring in the electrical box.
- 2
  Turn off the power to the current light fixture at the breaker box.
- 3
  Remove the existing light fixture from the ceiling electrical box. Use a screwdriver to unscrew the canopy of the existing light. Lower the light fixture and disconnect the wiring. Untwist the wire nuts from the tops of the light fixture wires. Set the wire nuts aside. Finish lowering the light fixture from the ceiling.
- 4
  Screw the mounting bracket or plate of the clearance light in place on the electrical box with a screwdriver.
- 5
  Connect the wires of the clearance light fixture to the wires of the ceiling electrical box. Match the colors of wires together. Twist together the ends of the wires and screw a wire nut over the exposed ends.
- 6
  Screw the clearance light fixture in place with a screwdriver. Turn on the power to the light fixture.

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