Saturday, February 23, 2013

Recently Nett bought a tiffany style, hanging lamp shade from a thrift store. It is a 25" diameter, but all of the lighting was missing.

I took the light home to St. George, because I saw a lighting place with a sign saying, "We repair lamps." 
Took it to them for an estimate. They said,"$180"
 The part they were going to use was and ugly black thing the cost $3.49. I decided to do some research and figure it out myself.

 So with a plan in hand, I went to Home Depot, (took the lamp shade too) and went to the electrical dept. 
I got an electrician and told him my plan. He told me how to wire it so it would be safe and was surprised that I sort of knew what to get.                                                                                                 After my purchase of $23.00, I went home and got to work.  20 minutes later it was done.
First I had to attach the 4 lamp sockets. The junction box has 4 opening and they just screw in



                                                     

 Then  strip the ends of all the wires and gather all of the wiring together, whites and blacks.




 Pull the lamp wire through the top, strip the ends and join all of the whites  and put on an electrical nut (get the right size to house them) I had 5 whites and 5 blacks. Do the same with the blacks. Pull the ground through and wrap it around the grounding screw a couple times and tighten. Tuck them neatly inside the box and put on the cover plate.  Ta, da! 
All that is left is to get a heavy duty chain and wire to the ceiling. We may have to replace the box in the ceiling and get a heavier duty one since this is a heavy lamp. 
Forgot to say the she got the stained glass shade for $4.00! Not bad for a $27.00 lamp. Saw a similar one on line that was only 21" for over $200.00  

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