Accessing drop ceiling area
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10-21-14, 11:38 AM
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Accessing drop ceiling area
I need to access the area above the drop ceiling in our basement. The basement ceiling is approximately 30' wide but only the middle 8 feet of it is drop ceiling, made of a grid and 2'x4' tiles. The rest is drywall. Here's the hitch.
The genius who installed the ceiling has one end butting solidly against a floor joist. The other end runs under an insulated HVAC duct with zero clearance. How on earth he ever got the tiles in place is beyond me.
I need access to check several pot lights that won't work (yes, I replaced the bulbs), reset a couple pot lights that are falling out and run some 16AWG wire. I can access part of the ceiling area as the finished area ends about 2' from the basement block wall.
Suggestions?
The genius who installed the ceiling has one end butting solidly against a floor joist. The other end runs under an insulated HVAC duct with zero clearance. How on earth he ever got the tiles in place is beyond me.
I need access to check several pot lights that won't work (yes, I replaced the bulbs), reset a couple pot lights that are falling out and run some 16AWG wire. I can access part of the ceiling area as the finished area ends about 2' from the basement block wall.
Suggestions?
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10-21-14, 01:51 PM
Chances are he ran a new circuit for those lights. Maybe you can find the junction box where the problem is. Otherwise, you are going to be stuck dismantling the ceiling piece by piece. What else does that breaker for those lights control?
