BWW Project 25-2: TDY Sara & Aaron's old house mud room ceiling

BWW Project 25-2:  TDY Sara & Aaron's old house mud room ceiling

Sara & Aaron bought new house and are moving into it.  They are going to sell old one and are in the throes of fixing up all the things that need doing before listing it.

One is the mud room ceiling about 8 X 10, where I had installed four can lights but which was half drywalled and the other half open.  Aaron had originally said "why do it when I am going to pop the mud room up another story.  Now that plan has changed and it needed finishing.

Aaron decided it would be easier to put bead board up and cut out for all four lights as it would be to drywall half of it and do all the mudding and finishing.  

We had to drive all the way to Beloit to get 5 sheets of bead board and busied ourselves with other little nit pickey tasks for the rest of the first day.  Cathy and I arrived in the morning of the second day and she and Sara worked on painting and scrubbing while Aaron and I hit the project.  

In my present medical condition I am limited in energy but we did pretty well.  

Of course you have to have a problem.  We were pretty careful when we nailed the bead board to the ceiling, to get the wires for the can light inserts inside the can, but of course one strayed outside the edge of the can.  Now when Aaron used my roto tool to cut the holes around the cans, he zipped this feed wire off and it stayed above the ceiling.  

I nipped off the wire inside the can and added jumpers to make them long enough to cram up in the can if the light had to be removed.  Flipped the switch and, wouldn't you know, Murphy's Law crept in and no light.  There is a little wafer up in there but it looks only like a connector of some kind to me.  We fobbed it off for another day.  I will learn what I can about it and bring more electrical tools and probes before we attack it again.

We found a replacement at Menards for the light that kept winking out as well as the one to bypass. I wired them and Aaron sawed the hole size a bit larger, muscled the hanging wires into the cans.

Meanwhile the women had caulked and painted the ceiling.

Looks great. Finally!