| Re: The last day of January 01.31.2020 chat |
Subject: Re: The last day of January 01.31.2020 chat by teebee on 2020/2/1 2:11:52 Hey guys, Yea, Gris, you may be right. Got up at normal time, but was on the road northwest to sisters house before 8. Got there and unloaded the tools and waited for nephew to get there to help me haul the tub down the basement. I told sis, my plan was to finish the electrical (installing 3 lights) and doing some figuring of materials and figuring how/what to do some finishing/trim things. Nephew showed up and helped me install the lights. I had power from a receptacle we removed where the tub was going, and fished it over to where the light needed to be for the utility portion of the closet. Then we needed to fish a wire through 2 joists spaces to run the switch leg. Drilled a few holes through little access points and fished the wire over and was able to hook up the switch. Then fish a couple more wires from the one light to the other two. He pulls out another light from the box and asks if I had someplace for this one. I told him I had bought three boxes thinking there was just one light in each box and that there ended up being two in each box, so, no I didn't have anyplace to go with that one. So he talked about replacing the one in the adjacent room. So I pull the fixture down and the freaking mess of wires there was unbelievable. After assessing the situation I came up with a plan/solution. Putting the one light in that room was tougher than the three lights in the closet/utility area. After that I said, "We still have two lights left" So we moved to the next room over and removed the one, one bulb fixture that was in there and was able to put the two LEDs, spread out in the same joist space and about quadrupled (at least) the light in the room. I have some holes to repair in the ceiling now, but that's a small price to pay for the increase in light. Sis is more than thrilled. Now we have to wait until the plumber comes back and install the tub, then I will go back and start hanging sheetrock. A friend of mine had back surgery in December, he told me he wished he had done it sooner...but it didn't help his hip, so he had a total hip replacement earlier this month. Not saying you should have the surgery, but don't count it out totally. |
