Lamp installation help or ideas needed!

One would need to know the height and distances. Then you can look for a suitable stairwell ladder from the lender.


Or rent a stair kit as scaffolding:

If you have an intermediate platform, you can place two leaning ladders there. Connect them crosswise with a plank at the height of your railing and then lay several planks from the railing onto the cross plank of the ladders. Not nice and the employers' liability insurance association would be horrified, but practical.

It is difficult to estimate the distances. But a larger ladder leaned against the walls with the arrows should be enough.

You can also wedge a leaning ladder excellently on even steps and then simply against the wall with the windows. That’s how I painted the entire staircase. The situation looks almost exactly like mine.

Painting is something else than wiring and screwing a heavy pendant lamp with both hands. The wires are very long and will surely have to be shortened because otherwise, they won’t fit into the usually quite narrow housings of pendant lamps.

I find the idea of putting the planks back in funny. What kind of nonsense one can come up with at 11 p.m. Should he seriously expose the holes now and then plaster over them again? That will turn out so ugly it will squeak.

Painting is something else than wiring and screwing a heavy pendant light with both hands. The wires are very long and will definitely need to be shortened because otherwise they won’t fit into the usually quite narrow housings of pendant lights.

I find the idea of putting the planks back in funny. What nonsense can one come up with at 11:00 PM.
Is he seriously supposed to expose the holes and then plaster over them again? That will become so ugly it will squeak.

So exposing the holders won’t work anyway. They were hammered into the stone and then refilled afterwards. I would have to make the holes “new” and then wallpaper/plaster everything again. No thanks.

Regarding one-man scaffolds, I already looked into that. But they usually only have a working height of 4m and from the ground floor to the top is a good 7.5-8m. So also not a real option.

Laying a plank across with the ladder on the stair landing on the other side might work, but honestly, so far it seemed too wobbly to me.

Thanks anyway for the “creative” ideas.