I’m trying to cap a ceiling light fixture box since we have no need to put a fixture on it. The electrician put a porcelain light fixture on it as a temp solution. The ceiling box has two black and two white wires in it and the switch the light is on feeds 3 other lights used for a bookcase. How do I wire these to make sure the bookcase lights still work?
Electrical – Capping light fixture box with two white and two black wires
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Best Answer
If this is in the middle of the run to the other lights being controlled by the switch (i.e. capping each wire individually means that some lights won't work, and there's no reason the electrician would have installed a temporary porcelain fixture if a simple capping would have done the trick) then:
*Check the package labeling to ensure you're using nuts of the correct size for the wiring you're using. My box of orange says it will not support two #12 or two #14 wires, only 1 of each with something #16 or smaller. My box of yellows says it will support two #14 or two #12, as does my box of reds.
Of course, it strikes me as very unusual that the electrician wouldn't have done this in the first place. Surely he would have had a blank cover plate on the truck just as readily as having a porcelain. OTOH, he may have made more profit by charging you for the "temporary" porcelain than he would have for just putting a cover plate on it in the first place. :/