How To Fix A Wobbly Stiffel Floor Lamp

Yes you can do it in less than 10 minutes.

How to fix a wobbly stiffel floor lamp.

Includes information on newer lamps. If the lamp works after you tighten up the screws great. You also can choose between fix it shops a handyman on site service or specialty shops found on this page s angie s list of pros near your location. Its joints are wobbly.

It has just fallen apart without a great deal of use. The cost of lamp repair is between 30 to 100 depending on the complexity of the problem. Over time and repeated touching from turning it on and off parts of the lamp may become loose causing. I had it in to a light place twice and they tried to put it together so it wouldn t fall apart but it is falling apart again.

If you have one of those rare lamps that uses bulbs totaling more than 840 watts have it fixed at a lamp repair shop instead of trying to figure out how to rewire a lamp. Prices to repair a lamp vary widely due to the many styles and ages of lamps. A lamp switch has a brass screw to which the hot black wire is attached and a silver screw to which the neutral white wire is attached. Lamp cord sold at home centers and hardware stores is usually 18 gauge.

Floor lamps take up little floor space yet shine a good deal of light where most needed. Mark wanamaker demonstrates how to replace a lamp switch. If not take it apart again and proceed with the following steps. Movers smashed my weighted lamp base for my torchiere lamp.

I used quikrete a vinyl concrete patching material to repair it. That s large enough to handle 840 watts of lighting. With common tools you can fix your wobbly lamp in minutes. Table lamps are essentially decorative elements and a light fixture threaded onto a long metal rod with a nut at the bottom to hold the parts in place.

It s much easier than you think.