It's always something

Well,  my first thought was to mount these lights with three in the current location and then put two others in the opposite orientation in between the car bays, that would give light in the space between cars.

Well one tip I' have now it to investigate fully the direction of you ceiling joists and also the joist material.  As it turns out in order to run flexible wire in the ceiling from the current fixture over to a new gang box over the spaces  between the bays, I have to get through multiple joist as they run from the front to the back of the garage in the direction of the cars!

To make matters worse  I tried with one by removing a small 4" strip of drywall and found one area of 8" think laminated beam.  This obviously was a major load bearing beam for the guest bedroom above the garage.

So a change of plans I will now run the wire to new gang boxes that are located within the same joist space to make this job much easier.  So I will run the wire about 4' forward and drop in new gang boxes like these for adding boxes to existing walls.




We'll go with that plan and I'll show you the finished product.