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All right, the people who own this home, it's time to change from the temporary construction
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light fixture to the finished light fixture. Is it hard to put a light fixture in
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Not as hard as you think if you follow a few simple safety tips
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The first thing you have to do is turn the power off to the light fixture at the circuit
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breaker panel. Make sure you have someone help you with this and make sure the lights off
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You can also use a tester to make sure that the power is off as well
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Make sure that your black wire and your newt wire, the white wire, have about a half
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inch of insulation stripped off each tip. Go ahead and put up the mounting bracket to the light fixture
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Now start to connect your light fixture. Remember the black wire in the light fixture is wire nutted to the black wire in the electrical
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box and the white wire in the fixture is wire noted to the white wire in the box
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Be sure to hook up your ground wire. It's the bare copper wire and it usually attaches to a green screw on the mounting bracket
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Remember, when you're working with the wires, don't touch any bare copper except for the bare ground wire
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That's the only one that you can safely touch. Most new light fixtures come with insulation at the top of the fixture
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Make sure you keep this insulation in place because it stops the heat from the light bulb from cooking the wires that are up in the electrical box
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Now slide the fixture over through the mounting bolts, put on your little finish trim screws
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and you should be ready to go. Alright, now when you put these last final screws in, don't do it too tight because you can crack the glass
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All we got to do now is turn on the power, put in a bulb, hit the switch, and everything should be great
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If you want to discover more home improvement tips, go to askthebuilder.com
