We got the bathroom lights today. We probably got them yesterday afternoon, but it was raining so I didn't go get the mail. Therefore I didn't see the box.
It rained hard for periods all night, and through the morning. There's lots of standing water out there. It's also cold and windy. We didn't go anywhere. Instead I decided to install the lights. The first went with no problem. On the second (over the toilet) the dumbshits struck. They hadn't installed a box. Instead they screwed the fixture into the sheet rock. They could have screwed it into a 2x4, but they were too lazy to get a screw that was long enough.
If that wasn't enough, they didn't leave enough wire to connect the light. It's wire nutted in the attic. I couldn't reach the nuts through the small hole in the ceiling. So I cut the wires of the old light and connected the new light to them. As a final piece of half-assedness, the dumbshits only used 12-2, so there was nowhere to connect the ground wire.
I screwed the mounting bar from the new light into the 2x4 and attached the new light to it.
After that I spent the rest of the day with my track layout program. I managed to complete a layout that I think will connect with only a very small amount of finessing. I think it will also fit the existing bench work. Using MSRP, it will only cost $850.
Tomorrow I'll look into some ways to reduce that. I think I'll use flex track on all of the sidings.
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