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If you are installing a hanging light fixture, you may have the need to have your handyman lengthen the fixture’s chain. This isn’t difficult to do provided there is enough wire to do it.
The goal here is to avoid splicing the electrical wiring or re-wiring the fixture to do this. If you are looking to lengthen the chain be a few inches, you should be fine. There is more wire coming out of the ceiling cover than you need, and you should be able to move this our of that area and into the chain area.
You will likely have to buy some matching links for the chain and then disconnect the last chain where it meets the ceiling cover. You can then feed the extra wire down into the chain link area. To span the gap, you need to add a few new links of chain. The links will have a separation in one side, but don’t pull them away from each other. Instead, twist the link horizontally so that the gap will open and you will be able to add a few links in this manner. By twisting the link, you avoid distorting the oval shape of the link.
When you have added enough links to bridge the gap, simply twist the links back into their original position. Make sure the ends of the links are aligned and you will be ready to hang the fixture.
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