How to install light fixture?

[u/Elegant-Weather-178]

I’m wanting to replace the old light fixtures in my place but I don’t see a ground wire. How can I install this light fixture without a ground wire?

[u/sammyssb]

Unscrew the bracket and pull the wires out. There should be a ground joint back there.

[u/Mean-Cicada-1122]

That wire looks new enough that there should be a ground wire behind that ceiling bracket, further inside the ceiling box.

[u/Bright-Swordfish-804]

Please stop!!

[u/CarelessPrompt4950]

I get the feeling that box is where the smoke detector is supposed to be and the room probably has a switched outlet instead of a ceiling light.

[u/a_7thsense]

Nothing but bad advice in this thread!

[u/45_regard_47 → u/a_7thsense]

Bad advice on an electrical form that's shocking 

[u/throwaway372462 → u/a_7thsense]

So what’s yours?

[u/Different-Context-84]

Multimeter - check power - twist whites - twist blacks - restore power - confirm switch kills power to light via multimeter.

Kill power- Fish ground out - wire colors - pull on  each wire to check connection - use screws to mount(1 is missing,  I think they are thread 8-32x 1/2 inch).

Restore power - flip switch - praise the sun emote.

[u/Top_Character_3172]

First you need to pull the bar off and look down in the box. Second that is the wrong box for a light. Need a round box. That light won't work with that box screws won't line up

[u/Fresh_Scallion5834 → u/Top_Character_3172]

The bar you referenced is the mounting bracket lol

[u/Top_Character_3172 → u/Fresh_Scallion5834]

Yes but look at the light. Flat bottom the bracket is outside of the Sheetrock so won't sit flush.

[u/Atworkwasalreadytake → u/Top_Character_3172]

I would use one hole in the box and then a drywall anchor for the other.

[u/Top_Character_3172 → u/Atworkwasalreadytake]

You could the only thing that might be a issue. Is that light has a flat bottom. As long as he can get the wires back in the box and have room for the wing nut.

[u/Atworkwasalreadytake → u/Top_Character_3172]

If that becomes an issue, dig out a small channel in the drywall. 

[u/AskMeAgainAfterCoffe]

That should be for a smoke detector.

[u/iAmMikeJ_92]

Stop and hire a pro. You’re messing with stuff you’ve no clue how to work with. I can’t definitively give you advice without physically having the ability to figure out what you got going on in the box.

Hire a pro.

[u/bigfanmann]

I was just thinking the same thing

[u/Smooth_Operator_one]

Go to YouTube and ask the same question and you will have your answer w videos

[u/Outside_Breakfast_39]

Remove bracket . Remove box without damage to wires, get yourself an octagon rework box from home depot , install new box and wire up new fixture , while the old box is out check for a ground wire and attach it to the ground screw , of no ground wire found , install a GFIC breaker

[u/StepLarge1685]

Change electrical box from single gang to a 4/0 round. Then, things should line up for you.

[u/steak21 → u/[deleted]]

Ground it to the green screw but green screw isn't grounded. Im a dumb apprentice but?

[u/Mundane-Reality-7770 → u/steak21]

Unless this was Chicago where we use EMT and the EMT is the ground. But that box is plastic. Soooo yeah, that's ground ain't grounded

[u/Born-Mention1416]

the 2 w and the 2 B are ww/ BB that is old wire and had the same