Install a Light Fitting - IKEA Hemma
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- Improve the look of your home by replacing those boring white light fittings with something more in-keeping with your style. This lesson will guide you through the basics of how to install a new IKEA Hemma light fitting in your home.
This stylish pendant light fitting from IKEA is a great addition to your room when doing all those home improvements.
Very useful hadn’t a clue how to do it as the instructions in the box are very minimal. thank you!
Couldn’t have done it without you. I used a sharp kitchen knife 🙌🏾
You Sir are a Legend - my Hemma light is now flush on the ceiling. Thank you kindly Sir :)
Fantastic, glad you've got it fitted perfectly. Good work
How in the world did you get your fixture flush to the ceiling? I’m close but still have an inch gap.
As another person has commented, this is designed so that you can draw the cable through the fitting that is placed on a ceiling hook, and in so doing adjust the height. So, in most cases you do not need to cut the cable to adjust the height. I understand you wanted to do this anyway as you did not want to wrap the extra cable inside the housing. But, even if you cut the cable it should be refitted the same way as it was before you cut it, threading through the two round holders, this fixes the cable to the part that is then put on the hook, which means any tension or weight is on the outside part of the cable and not on the inner cables that are carrying the current.
Sometimes you need to cut the wire, especially for the cheaper white domes as they struggle to stay flush to the ceiling with all that excess wire pushing down inside the dome (it all depends how high your ceilings are and the drop). For example the PS 2014 light is a nightmare! IKEA doesn't cater to older properties, all of their products are made for perfect showroom conditions.
Why couldn’t IKEA design it so it could fit, via a thread, onto the original rose terminal? Surely that’s more reliable than a single hook (not included). IKEA really need to improve their instructions.
Yeeessss I now know how to attach the bastard light to the ceiling 😅😅😅thanks mate
Hope you got it looking sweet 👌🏻
@@learnasido533 does this light pull flush to the ceiling purely on the tightening nut?
Best explanation - very clear
Before cutting the cable, transfer the plastic orange screw bits along the cable and the ceiling rose on the side of the cable you intend to keep
I think the design of this has changed slightly. It's not as easy to shorted the cable as the the terminal block is only quick release on one side now. It seems designed not to let you shorten the cable easily.
Thank you so much. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Glad you found it useful 👍🏻
super video and like others said I wish I'd watched the video first Thanks again
Glad you found it useful
Really clear and helpful. Many thanks!
Great video and great channel idea. Keep up the good work!
Appreciate it, thanks 👍🏻
Helpful video, thanks. You mention 'picture hook' in your video and 'curtain hook' in the comments. I would be grateful to know which type of hook you used exactly please.
With the updates ones that require a hook. I found it better to zip tie the ikea plastic cable gripper onto the existing rose base plate. It gave a much tighter finish to the ceiling. You can still underscrew the cover with ease
Really helpful video! What picture hook did you use? I’m not able to see it in the video. Would be grateful if you could send a link of the kind of curtain hook you used. Thanks for sharing this video!
Great video thankyou, If i wrap the earth in insulation tape is that the same as a termination block?
How did you get the cup to stay on the ceiling?
People are struggling to get a flush finish with the copper rose against the ceiling. Please reply to this comment with tips to help others!!
I'm still struggling to get it flush. So frustrating
Mine was fitted by an electrician and he couldn't even get it flush. Said he'd never seen one like it before.
Great video. Thanks a lot brother!
You're welcome good sir. Hope you got it looking great 👍🏻
Wish I had seen this video earlier. Proper struggling with a flush finish!!
They certainly don't make it easy.
I have just unscrewed my old light fitting and there are actually 2 sets of live & neutral wires (so 2 x black and 2 x blue). The ikea connector seems to have two spaces for each type of wire, will I be ok to put both blues and both blacks into the ikea light fitting connector or should I use a terminal block for one set of wires? Thanks!
Thank you so much!!
No problem
Hi - nice vid but I am about to throw it in the bin - i've screwed in a hook and attached the connection block to it but now what - i put the rose up to the ceiling and tighten the screw and nothing! It will simply not fasten to the ceiling but just falls away - this is the bit you have missed out in your video
Hi, the key is to find a hook that enables you to get your connecting block as close to the ceiling as possible. To get it touching the ceiling is ideal and will give you the most flush finish. I initially tried with a 'normal' hook (one that you might say looked liked a question mark), but it meant there was a gap of about 1-2cm between the connection block and the ceiling, and I too couldn't get a good flush finish. Instead you'll see I used an old curtain hook which I could screw in and get the connection block much closer to the ceiling (it was more fiddly, hence my inability to film it fully, sorry about that).
Thanks for watching the video, hope this helps a bit.
Late to the party. We left our original ceiling rose base in place ,removed the cover , shortened the flex, pushed the fkex through the hole in the original ceiling rose cover , wired the ikea flex in as per this video , screwed rhe original rose cover back up and then pushed the ikea copper dome up over the original ceiling rose and screwed the nipple up.
I was told by a Ikea staff member that to shorten the length of cord all you had to do was pull the cord up and twist it inside the top cord plate..🤔
Thanks Muhammad, you can do that, but I found there wasn't a massive amount of room for all the wire in the casing as I needed the drop to be so small. Having it bundled inside made the mounting using the hook more cumbersome also. I guess I just liked it trimmed, felt nice and tidy. Cheers
I want those cheap round paper lampshades but IKEA says they must be 'completed' with this 'Hemma.'
I don't want a new light fitting, I rent- i'm not allowed to alter the property and don't have the tools or skills to do all this anyway.
I just want a basic paper lampshade, to hang on my existing fitting. Surely there's a way to just hang a £2 shade without doing all this?
Great video, this is the exact combination that I was about to buy from ikea so it's very helpful.
Rather than cutting the cable to the length you want would you be able to wind it up in the copper casing?
Yes you definitely could. I found I had too much bundled inside so cut it instead.
@@learnasido533 Ok cool, it would just be around 20cm so i think it'll work for me. Thanks for replying so quickly!
Not electrician, but I’d be wary of gathered cable.
This is a great video. Where can I find a terminal block though. I have looked online and I cannot find one like the one in the video.
Thank you very much.
Don't worry about getting one exactly the same, in fact it's not crucial to have one at all I just like to keep all wires terminated. Take a look at the link below from Screwfix, these would do the exact same job...
www.screwfix.com/p/hylec-double-pole-24a-steatite-ceramic-terminal-blocks-pack-of-5/70278
As you found it useful, please consider subscribing, it helps me out more than you would think. Any other questions don't hesitate to ask. Thanks again.
Can never get the Ikea fitting which covers the wiring to sit flush with the ceiling. Aweful designs which need improvement
Thank you
Good video but really don’t like the way ikea have the cover hanging on the cable rather than screwed up on a standard ceiling rose.
ikea sell the hooks separately. they never tell you this. they should in the uk as most dont have this
I don’t know if this is a really stupid question... but we’re fitting the exact same light right this second and can’t for the life of us figure out how the fitting stays up on the ceiling with no hooks or extra parts?!
Certainly not a stupid question. You do need to screw a hook of some sort into the ceiling for the fitting to stay up. This is unfortunately not provided by IKEA with the Hemma light fitting. I ended up using a large curtain hook which I screwed into the ceiling using one of the existing screw holes from my previous fitting. The white plastic part with the connection block on then hooks onto that and takes the weight. Thanks for your comment.
@@learnasido533 hi there I can't get the fitting to hang flush to the ceiling is it because the hook is hanging to low?
Hi, yeah probably, the closer you can get the plastic connector block to the ceiling the better. That's why I ended up using a curtain hook instead of a normal hook because it was hanging too low otherwise, and the copper light fitting didn't sit flush to the ceiling.
I also found shortening the wire like in the video helped, rather than curling the excess up in the copper fitting.
Hope you get sorted.
Extremely frustrating!
How do you get the fixture flush to the ceiling? Why would ikea leave this important part out. I guess you get what you pay for. Customer service was not helpful😡
I have loop in system, so about 9 wires, and no space for a hook, at least properly... how can I do this?? its driving me crazy
I have three cables coming down from the ceiling. Will this work?
What colours are they? Blue, brown and yellow/green?
Did you figure it out? You likely have your lighting wired in a loop, so each ceiling rose connects to the next light, and has a switch drop. In that case, I recommend not removing the ceiling rose but using it with the flex from the Ikea cord set. The Ikea rose is secured to the flex rather than the other way round, and it is wide enough to fit over a standard UK ceiling rose.
@@SamButlerUKcan you explain a bit more please? We have a loop as house was rewired 2 years ago.
@@SamButlerUKwe've worked out what you meant. Just replace the cord of the original ceiling rose with the IKEA one by threading it up through the hole in the unscrewed original ceiling rose cover , wire the 2 wires in and re screw the ceiling rose cover in place , then push the IKEA dome over the top of the ceiling rose and screw the cable holder onto the underside of the dome.
@@susanelliott1912you have indeed - that’s exactly what I meant (and did)! Glad that helped and hope you like your new pendant!
Its useful but i have 2 colors different its brown and dark blue
Can i ask where your switch wire is for the old light fitting
Wich size of the HEMMA lamp did u have?
Hi Amy, I wasn't aware there was more than one size. I've checked the IKEA website and can only see one HEMMA size. The cord was originally 1.8m but I cut it to approximately 30cm.
Wow! So useful ;)
Kisses from Norway!
Hemma means home in Swedish.
Really with great help for replacing old light with new light fixture. Why not use a special socket, which make it so easy to install, remove or replace with new one as to insert or pull out a plug from an usual socket, please find it: th-cam.com/video/0pMsya3hrHo/w-d-xo.html
My ceiling thing does not even have wires and I don't know what to do :(
helpful but doesn't show the hook - this wee video shows that th-cam.com/video/W16rhjcjA8w/w-d-xo.html
how slow
Where is the guidance when you have a cable feed through in your base i.e. 3 cables to the fitting as is very common? This job should be done by an electrically competent person. Buy a lamp shade not some dodgy new light fitting where you are going to risk electrocution or mess up your house wiring. Also, you gave no guidance for putting in the 'picture hook', and no guidance on tightening the fitting to the ceiling to get the desired hang length.
can it be mounted without any hook?