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Mon, Aug 20, 12 at 14:30
| Help! My kitchen contractor has discovered a structural beam runs directly above my new island, where I was planning to hang two pendant lights. Is it possible to work around this? I was wondering if he could install a surface mounted junction box and terminate the wires there -- then we could build a box around that to attach the lights to? Any and all suggestions are most welcome. Thank you!! |
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- Posted by bus_driver (My Page) on Mon, Aug 20, 12 at 14:34
| If your on-site contractors cannot devise a good solution, their abilities are questionable. |
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- Posted by belladevil (My Page) on Mon, Aug 20, 12 at 15:13
| That their abilities are questionable is now an unassailable fact - that is why I need help :) |
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- Posted by mike_kaiser (My Page) on Mon, Aug 20, 12 at 21:06
| You can't conceal a junction box. There's no reason you couldn't, for example, build a "box" (some kind of hollow structure) below the beam and run your wires into that, terminating them in an accessible box. |
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| Many pendant lights are available that are suspended by thin wire and can have the electrical connection off center from the hangar. You can then have a box installed adjacent to the beam and run the electrical wire there. |
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