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Wiring Help Replacing a Two Switch Ceiling Fan and Light with Only a Single Light Fixture--See Photos

Home Improvement Asked by FrankTank on May 13, 2021

At the ceiling box where the ceiling fan/light there is:
White Wire
Black Wire
Red Wire
Ground Wire

The 2 wall switches.
The Left switch powered the fan.
The right switch powered the light.

I am installing a single light fixture that has Black, White, and Ground Wire.

How do I re-wire at the switches? What do I need to do to run the new light fixture off of one of the wall switches? How do I properly/safely "Cap-Off" the switch not in use?

Also both of the wall switches the black plastic housings are both cracked pretty good. What types of switches are these so I can replace? Especially the one that will be actually in use.

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One Answer

Lets eliminate the switch with the red wire. Remove the two black wires on the red wire switch, one from the screw terminal and one from the backstab and wire nut them together. Remove the red wire and put a wire nut on it.

Now get a new single pole single throw, standard toggle switch since you stated both switches were cracked. Remove the black wire loop from the switch screw terminal and the wire from the backstab next to it. Pigtail them with a small piece of black wire and connect it to the new switch. Remove the other black wire from the backstab at the other end of the switch and bend a shepherd's hook on the stripped wire and screw it to the other terminal on the new switch. Ground the switch with a piece of #14 wire. Now mount the switch and get a cover similar to the one shown below.

To remove the backstab wires, shove a small screwdriver into the slot by the wires and put the wire out.

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At the ceiling box, remove the red wire and wire nut it. Connect the black wire from the box to the black wire from the light fixture with a wire nut. connect the white wires together the same way. Connect the two ground wires together with a wire nut.

Answered by JACK on May 13, 2021

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