How To Wire A Floor Lamp

Cut and fish the new cord.

How to wire a floor lamp.

True the lamp will usually work either way. The main bulb threads into a standard socket with an integrated switch and the three peripheral bulbs are wired to a single switch usually located near the central socket. Make sure no bare wire is showing when making those connections. Rewire your lamp by threading the new wire through the lamp to the socket then attach the new socket with small wire nuts making sure you match colors.

Note that one wire to each socket is connected to each of the lamp cord wires. You ll want your lamp to sit flat on the table. Pull the socket wires out of the socket caps with long nose pliers. If you wonder why you have to identify and connect the hot and neutral wires correctly in a lamp read on.

Twist the lamp socket to loosen it from the base. Test the wires for each socket. Feed cord into shell. Lift the lamp socket upwards and pull a few inches of wire through the base.

Before wiring make an escape point at the bottom of your lamp for the lamp wire. Connect hot and neutral wires correctly. In prepping the new wire for wiring the lamp it was advised to dab super glue around the edge of the cord to prevent fraying. The threaded socket is the neutral.

2 saw blades width should be enough to hold your wire. Wiring a vintage floor lamp switch. Unplug the lamp and remove the shade. Cover with a new piece of felt if desired to prevent lamp from scratching floor to wire a two prong round cord plug pry out body.

But the issue is safety. The red wire goes to the hot and the black goes to neutral. I usually do this with a circular saw going from the hole in the center of the lamp to the outside edge. Remove any electrical tape twist off the old wire caps and disconnect the wires.

Normally power voltage comes through the tab on the socket base. As i began to strip away the layers of fabric down to bare copper wire it was apparent that the fraying would have been really bad and quickly destroy the whole cord had i not followed this tip. Tighten nut around pipe at base. Includes information on newer lamps.