- Location
- Huntington
Yup understood. I was just throwing out what I planned to do to give an alternative idea.
How to hang your ATI fixture to the ceiling?
- Thread starter samksy
- Start date
Yup understood. I was just throwing out what I planned to do to give an alternative idea.
- Location
- Queens/Flushing/Whitestone/NYC
Thanks guys for all the inputs. I really appreciated it. For light weight i'm not too concern with toggle bolt as i'm hangging 3 led lights with that as well. The ATI fixture i have is a 48 inch 6 bulb version. I think it weights in around 20-25 lbs. I'm pretty nervious with hanging using the toggle bulb but if i have no choice, that will be my solution. And like dave mention, centering the lighta round the tank is another issue i face as i can't move my tank around the studs at this point.
I found out that my subfloor is support by 2x8 but i think they are actually 1.5x7.5 and every 16 inch. But centering the light will be an issue for me. So i might have to go with hanging using toggle bolt method and use a huge bolt. I can probably punch in some nail and see where the studs are, i don't think the stud finder will help, i have one laying around some where, just gotta find it.
AGAIN, thank you everyone for your vaulable input.
I found out that my subfloor is support by 2x8 but i think they are actually 1.5x7.5 and every 16 inch. But centering the light will be an issue for me. So i might have to go with hanging using toggle bolt method and use a huge bolt. I can probably punch in some nail and see where the studs are, i don't think the stud finder will help, i have one laying around some where, just gotta find it.
AGAIN, thank you everyone for your vaulable input.
- Location
- Queens/Flushing/Whitestone/NYC
Althought i was able to find the stud but the stud is off by 8 inches and i can't move my tank. I went with Matthew's suggestion. Hang it using toggle bolt but due to the size of the nut i can't use the biggest bolt i can find. Asked the store owner and if 2 of the 3/16 3 inch toggle bolt will have any problem hangging 20-25 lb fixture, he said not at all. Came home, spent 15 minutes, bam! the light is up...nice and sturdy. i hope i won't get nightmare...lol!!!!
thanks again guys! you guys are great!!!
thanks again guys! you guys are great!!!
- Location
- Huntington
Nice. Im going to hang mine today after I stop at lowes and pick some stuff up.
- Location
- Queens/Flushing/Whitestone/NYC
Good for you...using toggle bolt?
Just measure nice where you want to hang and drill. My light fixture it's .75 inch off center, but i can live with it.....lol!!!!
dont worry it will be fine, they can hold that no problem.
- Location
- Fairfield, ct
- Location
- Fairfield, ct
- Location
- Huntington
No I will post pictures later. I painted some pieces of faring and screwed that to the studs then hung the fixture to that. I'm kind of glad I did this as I am going to add a reef brite to the fixture.
- Location
- Huntington
Tangy is that a reef brite attached to your fixture?
- Location
- Fairfield, ct
No it's an icecap strip. It's not heavy at all.
- Location
- Howell, NJ
I used this one
Thats not a toggle bolt. Wow i would be extremely nervous using that drywall anchor. You have guts tangy
- Location
- port jefferson sta, NY
That light is going in the tank!
- Location
- Fairfield, ct
Before I put it up, I kept pulling on the wire. It's pretty strong
- Location
- Fairfield, ct
Haha. Is been on the tank for 4 month, and I move the fixture up and down often.
- Location
- staten island,ny
I used this one
This plastic anchor is really not the best decision at all to use in a ceiling...it's a disaster waiting to happen!!!
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- Location
- Fairfield, ct
I live in a building, the ceiling is not just sheetrock
- Location
- staten island,ny
Not trying to clog up the post here with a debate but just watch them closely cause they are not made for ceilings
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- Location
- Far Rockaway 11691
+1 gravity is a $%#@!
- Location
- Huntington
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