Our House

Our neighborhood has had a bit of a rash of burglaries lately, and while we have a motion sensor light on the side of our garage that faces the house, we don’t have one facing out towards the street. With a weak streetlight there, it can get pretty dark at night - until now!

Our friend Roman was in town, and using some of his know-how and tools we installed a motion sensor light on the front of the garage in a little under an hour. First we had to drill a hole to pass the power wire through, and then mounted the base of the light on it:

Inside, we had to add a switch box to install a light switch. This isn’t a necessary step, but in case we want to be able to turn it off, or if it goes on the fritz - it’s useful to have!

Faceplate installed:

If we ever insulate that garage, we won’t have weird floating boxes like that anymore. Then we had to route the cable from the switch to a power source, in this case an outlet a few feet away. Make sure to turn off power to the garage before doing this!

And there it is! Easy install - thanks Roman!