Light work

We were both excited this morning for Brian to get started on the electrics. He had cleaned up the work area and thought carefully about what needed to happen. I’m going to let Brian explain what he needed to do.

“We had already measured up and bought what we needed for the first stage of the lighting - lighting cable, extra shielding, junction boxes and connectors. I decided that it was best to hang all the lights off of a central junction box, so the first job was to draw the plan onto the polystyrene insulation layer and then drill out the channels with a wide drill bit. Once that was done, and the terrible mess cleared up, I could start running the cabling. I had to spend a lot of time making sure I had the correct lengths, both for distance and available wire for mounting the lights and wiring into the junction box. All went well though, and I was soon attaching the lights.”

“It was an incredibly pleasing moment when, after wiring it all into the existing light switch, I flipped the switch and there was light. Hoorah!”