BallPeanScrewdriver wrote:
I "need" (as defined by wife, not me) to move a 1st floor light fixture
about 56 inches. OF COURSE it's across joists, and OF COURSE it's on
the 1st floor so I don't have access to it from above.

Is this as ugly a procedure as it seems like it must be, or are there
tools and/or techniques to make it less painful (primarily defined as
not messing up the ceiling byond the existing hold and the one I'll
need to make)? I am assuming I have to drill through all the joists
between the old and new locations, so some type of extended drill bit
seems like a bare minimum. But 20+ years of DIY home repair/remodel has
taught me others often know a "slick" way to do a given task, and I'm
hoping that's the case here (although the geometry and physics of the
problem certainly don't seem to leave much wiggle room for such a
solution).

Thanks in advance for your input!

-dave

Okay, I've got the solution.

Go measure it out, measure out everything in the room. Get a compass
out and read the direction of everything to everything else. Put it
all on graph paper. Then go browse the internet for an hour and tell
her that you've discovered that moving the light would make the room's
Feng Shui all wrong. In fact, the light needs to stay and you need to
add a small refrigerator next to your chair.

It might short circuit "woman logic" and work. Okay, the refrigerator
thing won't wrok, but the Feng Shui thing might.