This video tutorial demonstrates the installation of outdoor wall light fixtures (sconces) on a garage. It is applicable to the United States and demonstrates the process of replacing an existing fixture with a Eufy integrated security light and 360-degree camera. The tutorial demonstrates how to upgrade the curb appeal of your home and increase security by upgrading your outdoor lights. The video also includes a dusk til dawn option. To install the light fixture, prepare the area for electrical safety, remove the old light fixture, disconnect old wiring cables, and install mounting bolts. Before replacing the light fixture, gather tools, remove the old light, mount the new bracket, tie off the ground, and tuck wire bundles into the outlet box. Tighten the fixture onto the mounting bolts and turn the power on.
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Hi Everyone, I hope you enjoy this video in which I walk through the process of replacing / installing an outdoor light fixture.
What if your siding installer didn’t bring the junction box out? Can I mount it directly to the mount block?? The junction box is still mounted behind new Tyvek, insulated board and Dutch lap with the wires coming out neatly through the mounting block center hole (approx 1.75″ diam). I can see the box is a few inches to the side under the siding so I can’t pull it out to the mount block. Not without popping siding off.
Good article! My ground wire is held in the mounting by a small bracket. When I disconnected it from the old fixture the wire broke right at the end. Can I attach an extender wire by pulling it out from the bracket attached to the box or should I attach another piece to the section where it comes out of the wall to the bracket?
Thank you for explaining not just the how-tos, but the whys behind them as well. A better understanding of how things work really helps me. Yours is the 3rd article I watched, and you mentioned so many other helpful details than the other articles. e.g. twisting the ends of the strands, having the different length of strand/solid connection, the tab inside the light bulb, etc. I’m excited to install mine now!
Thanks for this. I was surprised at the lack of a gasket on a similar light that I bought recently, this explains it well. On the circular mounting plate, there’s usually a bunch of threaded holes for different sized boxes. if the light is still sagging, you can put a longer #8-32 screw in on a bottom hole and turn it until it contracts the back of the metal box, and use that to keep the plate from bending over time and the light sagging. Assuming there’s not wires in the way that the long machine screw would damage of course.
I have two lights on either side of the garage I installed about a year ago. One has not been lighting up, I tried multiple bulbs, and checked the bulbs inside too and they work. I used a voltage tester in the socket and it is getting current the same as the other fixture when switched on. I tried pulling down the tab in the socket for a better connection with no success. Do you think I need a new socket?
Pete, I’ve never been an electrician, but at 72, I’ve done my share of electrical work around the house(s), including installing innumerable light fixtures. When I saw the title of the article “… The Right Way”, I thought, ok, let’s see what this guy has to say. Well, what an informative article! I must have learned 5-6 new things I never heard of, all explained very well as to why you do it that way. Wow, there really is no substitute for experience! I can tell you like being an electrician.
I am instaling a outdoor light fixture very simler to the one you instaled, the problem I have is the fixture mounting screws are 3 inches apart and does not go in the wall box openning. The wall is stucco finish and the round box openning measures 2 3/4 inches, Is there a remedy without tearing the old box out of the wall. You article is very informative. .
I know 90% of this, but your tips about stranded to solid wires and twisting in the bulb were great. Question: how do you keep the mounting screws loose so that they can go in further if necessary for the decorative nuts. You mentioned this when mounting the light, but it was not clear when you installed the bracket.
Great article. My old fixture has nest the size or avocado pit that a giant wasp is looking to move into. Immediate suspension of project! Man that thing is huge. At any rate… waiting for my hvac neighbor here in my condo community to see if he’ll let me borrow his voltage meter tester. I don’t trust the breaker. What I notice is that the old porch light doesn’t have a ground wire but my new one does. Do I just wrap the copper wire around the little prong with the green dye on it?
I have a mounting box that looks just like the one in your article. Unfortunately my new fixture needs a bigger surface to sit flush. Do you have a article changing the block/box out? Also my siding is hardyplank and the mounting box was cut into place it doesn’t sit on top of the siding like the one in your article. Thanks for such a great article!
Thank You! I didn’t know about the orientation of the stranded wire Vs. the solid core wire. Also, the tip about the wire lugs is something that I have never thought about. You’ve given me the confidence to repair my outdoor light fixture and it’s going well. The light that I’m working on is bent and the junction box is not secured in place. I’m going to remove the light and secure the junction box in place and straighten the threaded tube. Thank You!
I have a similar set up with my old light on the vinyl box as you do. However, when I removed my old light, the hole was very small so I could not tell if there was an electrical box inside the vinyl box. I installed a new LED flood light but now thinking I should have double checked to see if there was a metal electric box inside the vinyl piece. Or does the external vinyl piece act as an electric box? Thank you.
Hello Pete! Drove 2.5 hours to work on my youngest son’s college house. Was ready to replace front porch light but checked the tab inside the fixture as you mentioned in your article. Bingo, it was a 2-minute fix! A couple of quick chores later and I was eating pizza with him on his couch just like a college kid. Thanks for the tip, I learned something new!
Thx for article. Is this considered wet location? I need to install gooseneck light on barn and wondering if I can use just a normal junction box that is recessed and attached to stud or brace… or even a pan box? What would best approach be to minimize hole in siding but have a nice flush fixture with no visible box?
Thanks so much! I just replaced the 2 fixtures flanking my patio door after perusal your vid, writing certain steps on paper to have handy on my ladder. Followed your PRO tips, like extending stranded wire past solid one, turn direction of nuts to avoid rain, etc, which other well meaning YouTubers (but not PRO electrician) might exclude. I was so confident that I ordered one of the replacements “Used, Very Good condition” from Amazon for half price—supposedly only having a dented box, but ya never know. Figured I could readily TEST it with a quick install of ONLY the wires. YES, I had to keep reminding myself to flip the circuit breaker back OFF after the test. So what a joyous moment when BOTH lights worked after completely installed. (One fixture had already failed a year ago but I hadn’t gotten around to fixing it til now, so wasn’t sure what was going on there—the fixture or internal wiring.) Actually, REMOVING the old fixture was the hardest part! One of the 2 decorative nuts on each fixture didn’t want to come off. It was like screwing it was also turning the bolt it was attached to, going round & round nowhere. The good thing? Because I was “educated” by your vid already, I didn’t panic. Used pliers to pull nut—attached to the whole shebang (bolt, fixture & mounting plate) slightly, bending plate JUST far enough away to access the 2 screws (at top & bottom) holding old mounting plate to wall. Then unscrew them to remove old fixture. Was quite an ordeal, actually. Makes me now wanna research how to readily remove rusty nuts, bolts, etc.
I’ll be trying this is a couple days, after my sconces are delivered. I’ve pulled out one of the pair that were original equipment when the house was built 50-years ago. I am not seeing a ground wire, just black and white. Maybe I can dig out another wire tomorrow in daylight…but, what if there is no ground wire as I suspect may be the case? BTW, I’ve watched several other articles on this subject and this is the best yet.
I have never changed a light fixture. You made it looked easy. I have an old fixture on my backyard that needs replacing. The new one I got looks similar to yours only smaller in length. I have subscribed so I can find your article for my upcoming little project. Question: Would silicon works in that gap you mentioned in your article?
I’ve never switched a fixture but I’m going to try to. This article was very helpful and I think I have the same new fixture from Lowe’s. Question: after I connect the fixture wires to the existing wires in the electrical box, do I need to make sure that the black and white wires do or do not touch each other or the ground wire or does that not matter? I’m terrified that I’m going to do something electrically wrong and start a house fire.
I’m going to be installing fixtures on existing blank vinyl mounting blocks. I see that box you’re dealing with there is a cut-in switch box. How do you cut that vinyl mounting block to install the box? How deep is the switch box? I can see the cutout lines for a round box or a switch box I just don’t know how to properly cut it and how much room will I have behind the mounting block to mount a box. Thanks