In our laundry room, that is. One previous light fixture in said room was obviously installed by someone from an instruction sheet that started out “Drink a 12-pack of beer…”. The floor joists in the laundry room are open, and these bozos gently nailed one of those metal bar dealios between the joists, and affixed the electrical box to that. From there, they proceeded to install a 2-incandescent light fixture, complete with the glass globe cover. Evidently deep into their cups by this point, they failed to observe that not only did the entire fixture rotate on an axis at right angles to the joists, it also moved from side-to-side between them.
Over the years, removing the globe to replace bulbs, etc, wear-and-tear got to be too much, and there’s now a bare wire going to the fixture. So I made a trip to the nearby Home Depot, and returned with 4 feet of fluorescent, brilliant illuminating goodness. We’ll install that tomorrow, once the roux is made for the chicken and andouille gumbo, and it’s simmering away.
My instructions start with “Drink a 6-pack of beer…”. I don’t know how it ends from there, because the instructions from that point are in Spanish.
Feliz Navidad!
-k-
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