How To Remove Metal Wall Light Box

This video shows how to replace a metal back box in a solid brick wall.

How to remove metal wall light box.

Metal boxes must be grounded. The process only requires basic tools to perform but you must use care when working with electricity. It could be a ceiling medallion a shelf unit a. If you ve got an old light fixture in an area where you don t need a light and you don t want anything there you ll have to cap off the circuit.

Initial installation of a ceiling light box happens during construction and prior to hanging the drywall on the ceiling. For a ceiling fan or a heavy light fixture buy a fixture box that attaches to a fan rated brace. You d do this if your existing back box is damaged or you want to fit a deeper back b. Hold the fixture s cover in place then attempt to slide the cap or tab off with your free hand.

Create or purchase a wooden or metal wall or ceiling feature. How to remove a receptacle box from the wall. However they are only as strong as the wall surface to which they are clamped. Ceiling light boxes are mounted in a variety of ways.

Remove the cap or tab on the light if your fixture has it. Depending on where the light was installed the box could be on the ceiling joists to the side of the ceiling joists or between the joists. A switch box is a hollow metal frame that sits inside the wall behind a light switch and holds the switch s electrical wiring. The washers prevent the locknut from biting into the side of the metal box around the the knock out opening.

This means sealing off the wiring in the electrical box to which the fixture was attached so the wires are still live but aren t powering anything and aren t a danger. Use pliers to twist the locknut on the end cap counterclockwise until it pops off. After removing an electrical receptacle you re left with an unused electrical box but it isn t empty. So a ground conductor will be required at least to be extended into a box to re establish ground continuity to the box and in the case of a circuit leaving a grounded box via knock out with reducing washers.

It should be large enough to cover the box and extend to the position of the fixture. The wires that were feeding the receptacle are. If you no longer use a light switch you can remove it from the wall along with the underlying switch box.