Ceiling lights, LED bulbs or fixtures? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Seigest@lemmy.ca to c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world

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Renting a room in an old house. The landlady is one of the rare good ones and cooks for me somtimes so I'm trying to be handy where I can.

This light in my office died, and a few others in the house are in dire need of replacing. Rusted and covered in decades of caked on dust, probably hazardous.

I keep seeing units like this. https://a.co/d/iU3hAd3

But I'm wondering if I should get a few of those or get another bulb style ceiling lamps and just use LED bulbs?

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[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you don’t even have to find and turn off the breaker. Just turn it off at the switch before you mess with it.

One word of caution here. If the light fixture is hooked up to a three-way switch, it is possible for the light to be off and BOTH sides of the circuit to be hot. This isn't a common way to wire three-way switches and it isn't to code anymore, but there are many homes out there with legacy switches wired as such. See: Carter 3-way switch.

Edit: Now with diagram!

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