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| The ceiling in the kitchen after removing the old track lighting. |
This old house
has no standards,
no built-to codes,
no protection from
shocking yourself.Nothing is quite square
nor level.
nor level.
Wires are hidden,
connected to
unexpected circuits.
Not designed
nor planned,
but grown,
a random add-on,
a strange mutation.
The old track light rusted.
Dead beetles hid
behind the halogen bulbs
that warmed the kitchen.
It had to come down.
Track lights have four screws---
two to the junction box,
one at each end.
Almost as easy as
changing a bulb.
But there was no box.
No ground wire.
A hole in the dry wall,
hot wires poking through.
Better recheck the circuit.
The new LEDs
burn cool.
The fixture?
Clean for now.
That'll do
