How To Remove Wall Lights For Decorating

Unscrew the mounting plate from the electrical box.

How to remove wall lights for decorating. Drapes of colored lights each covered with a ping pong ball offer a unique nightlight idea that works for boys and girls. Night lights help kids get a good night s sleep. Plus it offers a soft illumination so parents can do a bedtime check without turning on the lights. Assuming the wall light cables come down from the ceiling you ll need to get in the room above lift the floorboards above the lighting position and locate the cable you want to get rid of.

Unscrew the light fixture from the mounting plate attached to the electrical box. The wall is awash with color no matter when you turn those string. They all operate from the same switch which also controls the main light in my living room. Remove cable completely terminate cables to a chocblock but then you must chop in a backbox and use a blanking plate bit unsightly in the middle of the wall disconnect the leg of the circuit that supplies the lights leaving cables in place with ends terminated this is a last resort.

Screwdrivers pliers level drill and potenitall. Don t use too much pressure because the scoring tool can puncture through the paper and into the sheetrock or plaster adding extra work of puttying the wall once you re finished removing the paper. If i seal off the wires and just push back into the wall will this be okay. Back to ask the experts.

Use light pressure to run the scoring tool over the entire surface of the wall image 2. This is a problem as capping off the cables and concealing them in a wall or fabric of the building can be dangerous. Wall light was successfully moved without extra damage downstairs in a two storey house.