Final Update

Sep 21, 2002 22:19

I am going to make a list of things that went wrong during the intalation of our recessed lights in our bath room.

We first decided to go into the attic thinking that was where the wiring was. After breaking into there, we discovered that, no, it was full of insolation and nothing else. There is actually a small ft crawl space frought with pipes and wires above the ceiling. we went were able to at least look in there by removing the flourescent light in the Red Room. We needed to cut the holes for the can lights before we actually could install the wiring, so we just sorta felt it out. well, had to start over three times for each hole, leaving a significant about of ceiling removed. Wre purchases dry wall tape and spakel and texturizer and fixed them. we had to wire everything by removing the light about the mirror, pushing the wire through the whole left there, and then, with two broom sticks duct taped together with a coat hanger on the end, catch the wire, pull it in through the space where we removed the flourescent light in the Red Room, and then push it away towards the holes we cut where one of use would grab the wire and then pull it through. That was very very difficult. Once the lights were hooked up (not installed into the ceiling but hanging) we put a bulb in them to test them. BAM! they exploded. We tried again, and the same thing happened. We bought a volage meter and discoverd that for some odd reason the power to the fixture above the mirror ran at 277 V. This was a major problem. We ended up using the excess wire to run up from the light switch to the fixture (so up a wall and through the ceiling...don't ask. it took hours) and then from the switch to a near by outlet. This would turn it to 112, universal voltage. We did this and as i was screwing the switch into the wall, i recieved a full 277 Volts through my finger into my gut, and out my hand. To put this into perspective thats twice the current going into a standard outlet, and even more than what washing machines run on. It turned out that we hooked the wire to the wrong outlet. I was surprisingly fine. Once we alviate the problem (which took another hour and half and also my roommate whom i was doing this with was shocked). we hook the lights up and they work! -but the cans will not stay in the ceiling...45min later we figure out a way to keep them there. we are now in the process of detailing everything and cleaning. Oh, and also towards the end, our roommate, the one who didn't want us to do this, came back, and i had to distract him for a good 20 min to keep him from coming into the bathroom, and then i had a friend call him to get him out of the room and to there place. It wasn't that we didn't want him to see it, but we didn't want him to see a flourescent fixture dangling in the red room and wire sticking out all over the place in the bathroom. he wouldn't freaked. well, im going to finish and then find some food. this is the last entry on the fucking bathroom.
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