From: dim@soda.csua.berkeley.edu (D. Gerasimatos)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Need advice on upgrading lighting in my garage
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:58:21 +0000 (UTC)
Originator: dim@soda.csua.berkeley.edu (D. Gerasimatos)

In article <4R1Fd.52893$Ew6.29867@twister.socal.rr.com>,
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