Bathroom light

Get a taller wife?

You could use some plastic wiring channel to run up the wall and to the light to add a switch. You can get it at homedepot or lowes.

It seems all of the wall trim in our new trailer is attached with 1/4 inch wire brads. Every time we pull it somewhere a piece of trim has come loose. I replace them with 3/4 paneling nails. Two pieces of my paneling were only attached with the seam tape in one joint. It maybe easier than you think to open up the wall.

Thy are terrible when trying to do something like that. It may be easier to put in thin wire and channel as Horn said. Some places you can remove a fan vent or ac vent and sneak stuff through but??????

Mfan wrote:
Get a taller wife?

Perfect! :W

When I moved the furnace thermostat in our trailer laterally so I could see / reach it with the slide in the travel position I too had the choice of opening the wall or simply running the wires along the outside surface and masking them with some sort of dressing. I chose the latter when I discovered that inside the wall there was also a metal stud I'd have to drill through in order to run the wires where they needed to go. I chose to channel out a piece of hardwood for the purpose ...



... mostly because I only needed a few inches, otherwise I'd have instead used a piece of plastic wiremold. The OP could do the same, running the wires from the light fixture across the ceiling and down the wall to a switch located in a surface mount box, thereby completely avoiding having to open the wall or ceiling at all, not unlike how I ran a cable for the A/C I installed in our popup.

Our previous trailer had the same "dumb" bathroom light without a wall switch that my wife couldn't reach.

I installed an LED motion activated light (battery operated). When ever we walked into the bathroom at night it would automatically come on.
Batts seemed to last forever, it de-activated itself during the day when it was light. No wiring required.

The hoops we jump through to do what the factory did not. Amazes me. Wow!

A 12V remote control switch may be easier to install. There are probably surface mount wireless switches that accomplish this. The switching relay could be located in the ceiling.

downtheroad wrote:
Our previous trailer had the same "dumb" bathroom light without a wall switch that my wife couldn't reach.

I installed an LED motion activated light (battery operated). When ever we walked into the bathroom at night it would automatically come on.
Batts seemed to last forever, it de-activated itself during the day when it was light. No wiring required.

^ This is your solution :)

We went a bit further on one of our old RV's, we used command strips to attach to the wall (yes, they even hold pretty well in below zero temps) and then hung the motion sensor on it. The one thing we needed to do is make sure it stayed on for an extended period of time (like 3 minutes) so when using the toilet it didn't go off and leave us in the dark.

Only negative - have to replace batteries.

Battery operated LED was the simple solution for my vertically challenged wife . Just glue it on the wall !