John Lindal’s Blog

Closet lights

I have finally mounted the lights in our back living room closet — one for the closet in general and one for the corner with all my tools — after months of putting it off due to an irrational fear of drywall screw anchors. (I could hear that there were no studs where I wanted to mount the lights.) Now, it’s pretty silly to worry about anchors not holding when one is mounting ultralight fluorescent lamps, but my phobia started back when I was mounting curtain rods, shortly after we moved in. A curtain rod supported only with drywall anchors will not stay up if somebody gives the curtain a good yank. I was very fortunate that almost all the screws I put in went into the wood framing the windows, but one in particular missed, and I thoroughly messed up the insertion of the anchor, so even to this day, that particular screw is just for show. This time, however, I managed to insert all four anchors flawlessly, so the lights are rock solid — unless somebody decides to use one of the lights as a pull-up bar