I decided I would eat supper before I finished up with the hanging of the pendant lights. As Efiwym, my wife, was preparing supper, I finished installing the second pendant light. I put on the new shade of the first pendant light and officially, we had pendant lights over the peninsula. Except, they would always be on.
Just before I was ready to sit down and enjoy my meal, I took a peek at the switch. The first thing I noticed was the wire for the light was on the wrong side. The other side of the switch did not even have a wire attached to it. Well, something was definitely wrong. Time for supper.
After I was well fed, I proceeded to work on the switch. The breakers were already off. I pulled out the switch from the box. There were a lot of wires in this box. In retrospect, I should have gone with a double switch and a double outlet instead of two switch and outlet combinations. I needed the ability to hook up the wires to the back of the outlet, instead of doubling up the wires on the screws. I had already wired these already, so I just would figure out how to fix the problem.
It was a simple fix. I just ran a jumper (black) wire from the outlet to the switch. I went downstairs and carefully turned on the breakers. Nothing happened, which is good so far. I went back upstairs, and the lights were off, because the switch was off. I turned on the switch. We had light. I turned on the dishwasher switch, and the panel lit up. Now, I needed to get the switches back into the box. One more run down the stairs. With the breakers off I got the switches screwed in the box and the cover on.
With the power back on, I happily worked the light switch multiple times. Lights on, lights off. We now had pendant lights over the peninsula that worked! Time to clean up my mess and I called this project finally DONE!
