Man, what a messy job today! Jim and I worked at cutting holes in the kitchen ceiling for recessed lighting fixtures. I bought the fixtures six months ago, and then just sat on them. Jim got me going today, in installing them. Years ago when he came to visit one time, we tore out the entire bathroom upstairs! What a mess that was. I was thanking him for his help back then and he came up with the phrase: "Hey, what are friends for, but to use!" We both laughed about it back then, and I thought about it again today when I was feeling so thankful for the help. Making sure we didn't drill into any pipes in the bathroom above, or drill through any electrical cables took a lot of planning and checking. We are done with this part, the hard part, and tomorrow we do the installation. Whew! What a pal!
So nice to have friends who know what they are doing. You may have to repay him by rebuilding his chimney!
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This was a tough project to contemplate alone. The biggest issue (and the biggest mess) was using a hole saw to eat through one-half inch sheetrock, THEN a half-inch of plaster, then wood lathe, and all the time not sawing through the bathroom copper water pipes, bathroom drains, OR... cutting through the post and tube electric wires in the ceiling! We were very careful, and had no accidents... so far.
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