Whether you have the electric wires hanging from the ceiling or a DCL case, whether or not you could pierce, we show you step by step how to install a suspension, to finally enjoy its beautiful light.
- a pencil
- A drill with a drill suitable for the ceiling material and the weight of the suspension
- an ankle
- a screwdriver
- A cutting pliers
- naked pliers
- Cut the power supply
- Locate the electric wires in the ceiling where you install the suspension
- Mark a benchmark in the pencil on the ceiling, near the wires, so that the fixation is hidden by the frame of the frame
- Then pierce with a forest adapted to the diameter of the ankle
- Press the ankle into the pierced hole
- Screw the suspension hook
- Take the electrical wires of the frame using the stripping pliers
- Screw these wires to the connection case
- Perhaps remove the old socket from the ceiling
- Hang the hook frame
- Screw the wires from the ceiling with the connection housing while respecting the colors, knowing that the yellow wire will not be connected.
- Set the length of the cable
- Go up the cache of the frame that will hide the hook and the wires
- Install the drum on the socket
- Screw the blocking ring
- Install the bulb (you will imperatively have to comply with the maximum power indicated on the suspension frame)
- Reconnect the current
Here, your new suspension is well installed!
Your accommodation is old and does not offer a DCL case (see below)? In most cases, you will have to pierce to be able to install the suspension hook. However, there are solutions so as not to pierce in some specific cases. For example, if your ceiling is concrete, if it is provided with a background box and if your luminaire does not weigh more than 3 kilos, you can use the fixalustre system which will allowInstall your suspension without piercingthanks to a system of attachments.
In the new homes, you will not find a threads that exceed the ceiling but a DCL case, compulsory since 2001safer and which should greatly facilitate your task for the installation of your suspension.
Material
- naked pliers
- A DCL socket (if there is not already one present on the ceiling)
- a screwdriver
Steps
- Cut the current
- Take the sons of the suspension using a stripping pliers
- Remove the sheet on the side of the socket and open it using a screwdriver
- Insert the cable of the suspension into the cache of this sheet
- Connect the wires into the other part of the sheet: screw the brown or red wire on the L terminal and the blue wire on the B terminal
- Close the sheet and screw it to block it well
- Clip the sheet with DCL box
- Hang the hook suspension
- Raise the luminaire cache to camouflage the DCL case as well as the possible surplus cable
- Install the bulb
- Reconnect the current
Your suspension is ready to illuminate your room!
Decor and easy to install, the Japanese paper ball To everything to please us! To put it in place, it is very simple, it will be enough for you to unfold it and then insert the metal structure which will maintain it round. Finally, hang it with the suspension hook of your DCL case or slide it on the cable from the ceiling, ensuring that the bulb is well hidden by the ball.
You want to bring a real cachet to your living room by installing a multiple suspension Who will attract all eyes? Two solutions are available to you: you can either buy a “ready” model such as the Starkey chandelier at Made.com. You will only have to connect it like a simple suspension and then install the number of hooks corresponding to the number of cables to hang on the ceiling.
If you want to create this multiple suspension yourself using several suspensions purchased individually, you will have to remove the cache from each of these suspensions, buy a multiple rosette in which you will slide the different cables as well as an automatic terminal with several entries. You will then connect the wires from the ceiling to this terminal, as well as the wires of each suspension. All you have to do is install the different hooks on the ceiling to take advantage of your multiple suspension similar to any other.