Install lighting wherever you need it.
Install a new switch and light fixture in your home to areas that need additional lighting. When choosing your locations, consider how your new light fixture will affect the rest of the room's lighting. Install several types of light fixtures to brighten up the darker areas, giving the room a more inviting feel. Install your switch to operate your new lighting on a wall or areas convenient for you to reach. Consider placing your switch near the entrance to a room or near the light fixture itself.
Instructions
1. Mark the location for your new light switch. Trace around the old-work switch box template provided with the box. Cut the wall board along the trace line with a drywall saw, creating an opening for the switch box.
2. Mark the location for your new light fixture. Trace around the old-work ceiling box template provided with the box. Cut the wall board along the trace line with a drywall saw, creating an opening for your new light fixture.
3. Pull a piece of 12/2 nonmetallic electrical cable from the new light location to the new switch location.
4. Turn off the main breaker at your service panel to disconnect the electricity to the entire panel. Remove the screws from the service panel cover, exposing the interior of the panel.
5. Pull a piece of 12/2 nonmetallic electrical cable from the new switch location to the service panel.
6. Pull the electrical cable through the knockout in the back of the old-work ceiling box and slide the box into the opening in the ceiling. Turn the screws clockwise on the electrical box, clamping the box to the ceiling.
7. Strip the exterior sheath from the electrical cable to expose the three interior wires using a dual nonmetallic wire cutter/stripper. Remove 3/4-inch of insulation from the black and white interior wires.
8. Assemble your new light fixture following the manufacturer's instructions. Tie the black wire from the ceiling box to the black wire from the light fixture using a twist-on orange wire connector. Tie the white wire from the ceiling box to the white wire from the light fixture with another twist-on orange wire connector. Twist another orange wire connector to the bare copper ground wire from the box in the fixture to complete the electrical connection.
9. Attach the light to the ceiling using the screws from the ceiling light fixture's mounting hardware. Install light bulbs and the light shade onto the fixture to complete the installation.
10. Pull the two sets of electrical cable through the knockouts in the back of the old-work switch box. Push the box into the opening in the drywall and turn the screws on the box, clamping the box to the wall. Strip both sets of NM cable in the switch box the same way you stripped the cables in Step 7.
11. Twist an orange wire connector onto the two white wires inside the old-work switch box, tying them together. Tie the two bare copper wires together inside the box with another connector.
12. Twist the black wire inside the switch box around a terminal screw on the right side of the light switch. Twist the remaining black wire inside the switch box around the remaining terminal screw on the switch. Tighten the screws to hold both black wires to the switch.
13. Push all wires and the light switch into the old-work switch box. Attach the switch at the top and bottom of the box with the screws that came with the switch. Cover the switch and old-work box with a single-switch wall plate.
14. Install a 20-amp single pole breaker in the main service panel. Place the back of the breaker under the slot in the panel that holds it to the panel. Push the front of the breaker over the buss bar, connecting the breaker to the electricity.
15. Strip the NM cable inside the service panel as you did in Step 7. Install the black wire under the set screw at the rear of the breaker. Tighten the breaker set screw to hold the wire in the breaker.
16. Install the white wire under a set screw in the neutral bar and install the bare copper ground wire under a set screw in the grounding bar. Tighten the set screws to hold the wires to the bars. The neutral and grounding bars are both silver-colored bars. The neutral bar has white wires installed in it, while the grounding bar has all green and bare copper wires installed in it.
17.Replace the cover to the main service panel. Turn on the main breaker to supply electricity to your new light switch and light fixture.
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