How To Move Light Switch On Wall

However that approach will not work with led bulbs due to the way it powers itself and may not work safely with fluorescents.

How to move light switch on wall.

Start disconnecting the wires from the current switch. Using a stud finder check the new location of the light switch. Turn on the switch you plan to move. Step 1 take safety precautions before moving your light switch.

What i did was flip on the overhead light in the boy s room and switch off the assigned breaker which caused the light to go off. Moving a light switch that is poorly located is not that difficult. Due to concrete flooring upstairs i cannot access the cable from above. I did exactly that some years ago replacing the light switch with an x10 remotely controllable switch and hang the remote on the wall at the other end of the room.

So far i have taken the light switch off the wall and there are two cables coming into the switch. I am aware that i can make access to. Locate your circuit breaker panel and the circuit breaker that controls the switch and turn the circuit breaker switch off. You may want to lower it raise it move it nearer to a door or to a different wall.

Hi all i have a situation where i need to relocate a light switch about 3ft across. This is my first time posting and would like to advice and help moving a light switch to the other side of a door in the same room. So this is our breaker box. To make it easier to know the appropriate position of the wires later on use color coded tapes or markings.

Good to go right. I plugged in a lamp and it came on which meant the outlets still had power going to them. Hold it on the plate and not on the wires to prevent the latter from breaking. This is due to a doorway being bricked up and the light switch needs putting near the corner.

Pull it off from the wall. I went and grabbed a lamp to double check everything.