[indent=40px]I have a 3 wire led light fixture that is 25 watts, 110 volt, and I want to put it up and run a 25 foot 18/2 (lamp) gauge wire and add on a plug. I will plug it in a recptical wired with romex yellow house wiring. Is this reasonable and safe to do? I will mount the fixture to a junction box. What will I do with the ground wire belonging to the fixture? Thanks[/indent]

Not sure if this is an electrical question but since I was running electrical wires I figure an electrician might have run into this problem before. When running wire for overhead lighting I came across what I assume is fire blocking between joists. I attempted to drill a 1 inch hole thru the block and hit metal at some point. By means of the holes I put in the ceiling for the lighting I can see both sides of the fire block and there is no metal visible on either side. Does anyone know whether this block would consist of two pieces of wood with metal in between? I'm not sure what I'm dealing with here. I could get a bit that would drill through the metal but then I would have to have wire sitting on sharp edges of torn metal.