Stair lighting and structure upgrade

[Peanut]

I intended to finish this room today but cfs decided to make that impossible. Spent the morning not thinking clearly and making mistakes. Lay down at lunch for a nap, that helped a lot. So, I spent the whole day pulling cable through a cinderblock wall to this double box. And I'm still not done. Have to pull one more cable then I can install the switches and call it done.

What a pain in the butt!! I hope I never have to pull cable through a cinder block wall again.

 

[Pearl]

I intended to finish this room today but cfs decided to make that impossible. Spent the morning not thinking clearly and making mistakes. Lay down at lunch for a nap, that helped a lot. So, I spent the whole day pulling cable through a cinderblock wall to this double box. And I'm still not done. Have to pull one more cable then I can install the switches and call it done.

What a pain in the butt!! I hope I never have to pull cable through a cinder block wall again.

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At least you accomplished something!!

 

[Patchouli]

Is cool when people here talk each other through projects. Thanks!

 

[Peanut]

Simple light fixture right? Not hardly! It was so old it wasn’t made with a way to ground the base. Didn’t matter because for the last 50yrs because the power being supplied wasn’t properly grounded either. It was wired from the attic with 70yr old electrical cable.

I changed everything about it, ran new wire from below with a proper ground. Grounded the junction box and modified the base with a proper ground point. Today I spent 2 hours trying to put it all back together standing on the 5th step of a 6ft step ladder.

What a royal pain in the butt!!! 7 or 8 trips up and down the ladder, my knees are screaming at me again. But it’s done, on to the next step in the process.

It'll still be a few days before I apply power to the fixture. Hopefully I have everything wired correctly. Don't want to take it apart again.