Change Ceiling Spot Light To Pendant

A recessed light sometimes called a can light has both its housing and bulb recessed above the ceiling drywall.

Change ceiling spot light to pendant.

If you have three recessed downlights you will obviously need to blank off the supplies to two of them and then replace the third with your pendant fitting. Drill a hole in the centre of the plywood and feed the electrical wires through the hole. Unscrew the screws or nuts holding the fixture base to the ceiling box. Converting a standard ceiling light fixture to a recessed light involves removing the old fixture and its electrical box and installing the new recessed light usually in the same place.

Climb down from the attic. Apply glue to the top of the plywood where it meets the ceiling joists place the 2 by 4s on the glue and the plywood and secure them to the ceiling joists with the 2 inch drywall screws. Hi in this video i m replacing simple plastic pendant light fittings with a proper lamp. Measure the height from the ceiling that you would like your pendant light to hang.

Personally i would always get an electrician to do this. Hope you will find it useful and don t forget to earth the metal lamp. Sounds like the latter but either way yes you can replace it. Westinghouse lighting 6100700 one light indoor mini pendant brushed nickel finish with clear seeded glass 4 6 out of 5 stars 2 075 23 79 23.

If it s just one fitting then you just replace it with your pendant. Because this fixture will be over our craft table i chose a height slightly lower than if i was installing it where we would walk underneath.