How Much to Move Ceiling Fixture?
Any idea how much it should cost to have an electrician move a ceiling light fixture a couple feet over? Not much slack in line so it would need junction box I think.
Any idea how much it should cost to have an electrician move a ceiling light fixture a couple feet over? Not much slack in line so it would need junction box I think.
To be honest being the owner operator of a R.E. company, G.C. and handyman firm your total cost will be as little as $340. dollar and at most $680.00. The real cost will be repairing the ceiling. Moving the fixture is the easy part. seeing the site and or picture helps a bunch. Contact us if you would like a quote at 917-829-8382 ask for Whitney.
I’ve had this done. Figure a minimum of $300. Good advice to have another small electrical job done at the same time.
If you hire a pro electrician, he can fill in the plaster too.
I’m big on DIY, but installing a box is not something I’d want to do myself–I’ll limit my electrical work to replacing defective switches or outlets, in existing boxes, or re-wiring fixtures.
There IS one easy DIY fix, IF the fixture is a hanging one. Put up a hook where you want the fixture to hand, extend the wire and chain from the fixture, and swag it. Not the most elegant solution,but cheap and not very messy.
Moving it should be $150-200 if a new run does not need to be made. The patch job might be more expensive, funny enough.
I’d leave the electrical work to a pro and the patch to a handy man or DIY.
yeah, the time to open then close and paint the new ceiling location for the light is long.
and yeah, this is a DIY type job–you do not need to call an electrician.
If there is no more slack then you are going to have a pull a new circuit or pull power from a nearby branch. If you are going to wire nut from the existing j-box, you are going to have to leave it exposed with a cover plate.
The electrician cannot extend a wire without legal terminations within an exposed accessible box.
So if you can live with the existing box covered with a blank plate, plus an additional box where the light will now be, it is very easy.
Joining two wires , buried in the wall or ceiling is a big, no-no.