We’ve had this somewhat post-modern light fitting in the stair well of the barn conversion for a while and my wife had been nagging me to replace it with something more to her liking.
The only problem was getting to it.
I tried a fair size scaffold, but it really didn’t feel stable to me.
In the end I cut the cable in the loft and attached a long length of flex that almost reached the floor. I also taped the flex to a similar length of metal chain and dropped the pair through the hole in the ceiling. I could then fit the new light fitting whilst standing on the floor, return to the loft and lift the entire thing up to the ceiling using the chain. Once up to the ceiling I just had to clamp the chain in position. And here it is.
Fortunately there’s only the one fitting, so there’s no chance of doing an “Only Fools And Horses” whilst dropping the fitting to clean or allow bulbs to be changed.