How To Install Outdoor Light Fixture On Siding

Twist the white wire from the light fixture to the white wire coming from the wall using a clockwise motion.

How to install outdoor light fixture on siding.

This guide also gives an outline of what is involved in installing line voltage lighting. I wanted to install an exterior light on vinyl siding so i opened an existing one to see how the box wires and fixture is installed. Twist the ground wire coming from your light fixture to the ground wire coming from the wall using a clockwise motion. However it is recommended that this type of.

Mark on the siding where you plan to install exterior lighting using a pencil. All we have is the vinyl trim around where it used to be with the wires sticking out of a hole in a small vinyl panel. For adequate support you can mount exterior light fixtures to a solid block or base which you usually install before or during the siding process. Push the wire through the cable connecter then screw the block to the sheathing.

Twist your wire cap on to secure the two wires. It has cutout marks on it for the type of fixture you will be using. Mounting box with built in electrical box. You then reinstall your siding cutting it to fit around the box leaving approximately 3 8 for expansion and contraction.

Make sure they are firmly connected. Notice that the metal. Then you snap on the mounting plate. Remove portions of the vinyl siding on either side of the installation location to install the vinyl mounting block.

The block should be rectangular and large enough to accommodate the base of the fixture. Cut a mounting block out of 1 inch lumber to mount a fixture on vinyl or clapboard siding. Installing outdoor light fixture on vinyl siding we bought our home recently with existing vinyl siding and the porch light by the back door is missing. Yours will be 4 round so cut on those marks the snap it on.

Then mount your fixture to that large flat mounting plate.