Recent content by Halowisa

Jeepskate, I like your idea of a receptacle. Tha fixtures I have are not corded. Do you think the power cords from an old computer or monitor would be heavy duty enough?

Your light has inspired me. I'm working on my Mini-Garagemahal project (only 20x24) and I found two of those fixtures (1 green & 1 blue) in the basement (we just bought this house in April). Now I'm not very artistic, but thought I could make a nice antiquey fixture for the garage door opener...

Thanks mrb. The light fixtures are still up on the unfinished ceiling and I didn't realize they have knockouts as large as a fixture mounting box. Can you please clarify what you meant by doing it right. You didn't mean to just run a wire from the attic, through a 3/4"hole in the ceiling and...

Thanks for that info, but I'm still fuzzy on some details. My intention is to finish off the ceiling and install the boxes for the lights flush with the ceiling and in the attic space. 1) So if I use those whips, what type of box do I use and/or how do I attach the whip to the box? 2) If I...

Hello. New member here. I've looked all over this forum and couldn't find an answer. I've finally started my mini-garagemahal project (I finally have a garage!) I'm re-using some fluorescent fixtures that do not have a cord with plug. So how do I wire in? Do I put a ceiling fixture box (or...