Fixing Mistakes

Now that everything has been covered with wall board, we discovered a couple of oopses on lighting fixtures.

Over the stairs there are four can lights. With the wall board installed one of those lights was obviously out of alignment. Since the ceiling is going to be covered with wood planks we were concerned that their lines would make the misalignment even more noticeable. So there was nothing for it but to cut out the wall board and reposition the light. It turned out that it was approximately 3 inches off. When the ceiling wood is installed it will cover the hole.

The other lighting problem also involved the stairs. We both did not notice that one of the stair lights had not been installed. Unfortunately, this was discovered after all the wall board was installed in the under stair closet. After cutting out the wood where the light goes, Rob then had to carefully cut out a piece of the wallboard under the stairs so he could feed the wire. He was able to keep the wall board in good shape and reinstall it.

So with texturing on the walls and wood on the ceiling it won't be possible to tell where these fixes were done.