Replacing track lighting with a different fixture requires disassembling of the channel track pieces.
Removing track lighting from ceiling.
Track lighting is very much what it sounds like.
A track that screws into your ceiling and provides power for a series of independent lights that are suspended from it.
Take the track fixture with you when you visit a lighting store to find a fixture with the same electrical contact tab configuration.
Patch and paint ceiling.
Remove the track light fixture from the track on the ceiling.
To remove a track fixture grasp the base and turn it 90 degrees.
Once the old kitchen track lighting came down i discovered a problem.
Track lighting uses several pieces of pre wired channel tracks that lock together and attach to the ceiling.
Track lighting that won t turn on is usually the result of a bulb that needs replacement.
Not only that but whoever installed the track 30 years ago didn t paint the ceiling underneath.
Then remove the screws that attach the track to the ceiling.
In general if you can simply unscrew the light bulb out of the front of the fixture then you don t need to take it down.
If your track lighting bulb is stuck or you can t figure out how to remove the bulb from one of your track lighting fixtures it isn t because the manufacturer designed it to be impossible so you d have to buy a new fixture.
Although track lighting systems differ among manufacturers the fixture mounting tends to be similar.