Transform Your Space: How To Upgrade a Light Fixture

Replace a sad old ceiling fixture with a groovy one, so that you can stare up at a more inspiring ceiling light when you're awake at dawn because the cat is hurling again. This video even ends with a tip to help stop your cat from barfing up furballs at 5am.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:04 Remove the ceiling plate above the old fixture
03:45 Take the weight off the wires using a coat hanger
04:28 Remove the wire nuts and detach the old fixture
05:19 Remove the old bracket
06:28 Install the bracket that came with the new fixture
06:40 TIP: speed things up with an electric screwdriver
07:05 TIP: Have extra screws on hand in case you drop them, or need a different length
07:47 Use the coat hanger trick to take up the weight of the new fixture
08:19 Feed the new fixture's wires through the center hole in the new bracket
08:58 Get your nuts ready and sort out the wires
09:53 TIP: I've learned to give the wires a twist before putting the wire nut on; it makes a much stronger connection
10:27 If you don't have a ground wire coming out of the box, ground the green fixture wire to the box
11:42 Screw the stem into the bracket
11:59 Pull excess wire through to snug the fixture up (you'll hide the excess wire under the decorative plate)
13:06 TIP: Tape the plate in position to get it out of the way
14:45 Mag's Roundup: End the heartbreak of furballs

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A Repair to Remember aired on W Network in Canada from 1997-1999

A Repair to Remember CREW - Season 1
Host: Mag Ruffman
Director of Photography: Joan Hutton CSC
Art Director: Ane Christensen
Editor: Joe Weadick
Music: Carole Pope
Writers: Maryke McEwen, Mag Ruffman
Producers: Maria Armstrong, Maryke McEwen
Director: Laura Buchanan
Executive Producers: William Johnston, Ronald Lillie
1st AD: Filomena Guarasci
Camera Operator: Colin Evans
Makeup and Hair: Sue Upton
Continuity: Frances Handelman
Sound Recordist: Bronwen Connolly
Assistant Editor: Lisa Robertson
Construction Consultant: Daniel Hunter
Graphic Design: Marc Rosing
Production Coordinator: Twila Linden
Assistant Production Coordinators: Elaine Nicholson, Laura Lillie
Production Assistants: Lisa-Marie Dooley, Jeffery Necker
Camera Assistant: Rylan Vallee
Catering: Debra Wilson
Music Publisher: Joan Tone Musik
Clothing: Indian Motorcycle
Special thanks to Malcolm Firkser