How To Move Light Switch To Adjacent Wall

You can even place it in another room.

How to move light switch to adjacent wall.

Reply to relocating moving a light switch in the electrical forum. Locate your circuit breaker panel and the circuit breaker that controls the switch and turn the circuit breaker switch off. This is part of the garage makeover to turn it more into a shop than a place to store junk. We need to move an existing bathroom wall into a closet to expand the bathroom.

Step 1 take safety precautions before moving your light switch. If you proceed methodically you can complete this task safely and neatly. If the switch at this location is a light switch make sure the light it controls is turned on. This new wall will have a new shower enclosure on the other side if that matters.

Some rooms remain dark and dreary with a single ceiling or wall light fixture. The cable on the existing switch will become dead but better to terminate using a terminating block and. If this idiot can do it anyone can. Adding a new light is easy because you can wire it to the existing light.

If for example it s being fed from the ceiling rose or a junction box in the ceiling then chase down the side of the wall where you want the switch and feed in the new cable and switch. Do i need a permit to have the switch moved about 3 inches to the new wall. Looking at the evidence above i would say its a wall mounted switch that is fed from above channeled in the wall just below the ceiling and as any good spark should do he is connecting from the top of existing drop and going across to drop down to the new switch location. Plus the existing switch will control both lights.

Moving a light switch that is poorly located is not that difficult. Moving a light switch due to reversing a door. You may want to lower it raise it move it nearer to a door or to a different wall.