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Originally Posted by raymor
assuming there's no drywall on the ceiling, it's quick and simple. You should have help from someone who knows what they doing though because a silly mistake like a staple through the wiring COULD burn the house down.
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Nah, the most that'll happen if he drives a nail through a piece of romex is the circuit will trip when he goes to turn the power on. I would be more worried about the fact that he has no clue about any NEC code, but that's not that big a deal since it's such a small project. Just staple the wire within 8" of the boxes and every 4' after.
Like I said earlier, your best bet is to put all five lights on the switch at the top of the stairs. That's the easiest thing to do most likely anyways. There's absolutely no reason for a pullchain to be tied in with the water heater circuit, that should be a dedicated 30amp 240v circuit, at least every one I wired was. But i've seen weirder shit.
Get rid of the existing feeds to the pullchains and just rewire them from the last switched light.