"D. Gerasimatos" wrote in message
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In article ,
Scott Smith wrote:

We recently bought a house, and it still has the original garage
lighting -
a single 60W bulb mounted on the wall next to the door.

I want to work in the garage, so I need to add some lighting. We live in
San Diego, and our winters don't usually get below 50 degrees, so I
figured
I'd go with fluorescent lights.

The problem is that the walls and ceiling are all finished, and I dread
the
idea of tearing out the sheet rock just to run wires around the ceiling
(there are rooms above the garage, so I can't just go into an attic and do
it that way).


You are going to make a hole in the sheetrock to mount your fixture(s)
anyway, right?

Dimitri

Yeah, no problem with small holes that I'll cover up (or fill) with the
fixtures. But since the existing switch goes to a wall-mounted 60W
incandescent fixture about two feet above the switch, I pictured having to
remove large amounts of sheetrock to run wiring up the wall and across the
ceiling to the fixtures. Then I'd have to replace all that sheetrock and
repaint. At that point, it starts looking like more time and money than
it's worth.

I'm wondering what the alternatives are, or if there are ways to do this
without ripping out a ceiling...?

-Scott