Jason
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: I've got a very lightweight (~4 lbs) light fixture that I'm
:
A few comments and questions
1) Why cant you get into your attic? This would be the best way to go. you
can then fish a wire to a wall switch and do the job properly.
2) There are lights designed to be hung from chain. You can just put in a
hook. I think they are called swag lights. This hook can just go in with a
toggle bolt or screw into a rafter. The cord follows the chain up and over
to the outlet. I spent a few miniutes on Google and didn't find exactly what
I describe. Ikea may sell something like this.
3) I would not install a fixture, designed to be mounted in a box, the way
you describe.
4) Where are you located? If near me I may be able to refer you to somone
who can do this correctly, quickly and for a minimal cost.
Two, find a joist and screw in a hook, that the chain will hang from,
and don't try to put in a box.
But a box designed to go in from below. IIRC It's a regular box with
two aluminum arms going in opposite directions. Their lenght is
adjusttable so I think you can put the box in the middle between two
joists, or not in the middle. How they attach to the studs, I forget.
I forget if it requires sticking one's arm in the hole -- I doubt it
though. I think it might have been something clever. Sold
everywhere, but maybe there are better designs at electrical supply
houses. Find and buy the box before you cut the hole. :)
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>Jason
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me know if you have posted also.
The question on why I can't access the area above my ceiling is a good
one. I have one attic access door and when I get into my attic it runs
the length of the upstairs, but then "dead ends" where this room
starts. Don't ask me why...just a peculiar design I suppose.
Anyhow...I'm still stuck. Would LOVE to get in above the ceiling and
do it right as the first person suggested, but just isn't a
possibility.
Will see if I have any luck finding the joists.
>Where you say attic dead ends, what is there? Some plywood/ sheetrock
>you could pull off? Or cut through- carefully, not knowing what is
>behind? This is an attic after all, not finished living space? If you
Maybe it is a room from the Underground Railway? Maybe there is
access from the other direction, an attic over the garage, perhaps.
(we had an attic over the unheated garage, and some sort of wall
between it and the other attic.)
>do follow this path, and find yourself walking on joists, be careful,
>place some plywood sheets to create walking path/ work area- easy to
>put your leg through a ceiling.
Hi,
Considered ganging electrical duplex or octagonal box to the existing
fixture and running pig tail betweem two to solve grounding.(using long
bolts and spacer; like peice of small diameter pipe or rolled shhet
metal) to off set the outlet away from the fixture cover. You're only
plugging in a power adaoptor weighing few ounces. Surely ceiling fixture
must be very well anchored. It needs cutting a hole on the ceiling shhet
rock.
Tony
Hi,
How about swag lamp or fluorescent light fixture which will screw onto
joist for mounting. Or can't you mount a fixture on the wall above the
outlet? Gooseneck type?
Tony
I've had luck finding the joists, and have a good idea of where I'm
going to hang the fixtures now. As for grounding, the 3-wire cable
that I purchased has a ground, neutral and hot. Ditto on the fixture.
Regarding grounding...will ground the fixture ground wire to the box
first, then connect it to my cable ground with wire nuts. This was the
recommendation of the electrical guy I talked to at the hardware store.
The light itself has circular mounting box that the wires are housed
inside (your typical mount for many lights), along with the support
bars that are attached by screws to the electrical box in the ceiling.
The fixture is actually 4 lights that are suspended from a curved rail
that hangs below the mount. Kinda difficult to describe...bought it at
Lowes, but no picture on their web site.
i've had good luck using supermagnets to locate the screws/nails holding the
drywall onto the joists/studs.