Fitting kitchen spotlights and drilling joists?

wafers

I am about to wire in 6 ceiling spotlights in my kitchen (yes, council dept have been informed). My initial plan was to lift the floorboards above the existing ceiling rose, which is in the centre of the room, junction box the connections then pull a feed from that to the first spotlight. Then I planned to daisy chain the rest.
Is this the best plan of action? I'm asking mainly because I am trying to get my head around fishing the wiring for the remaining spotlights. I would be able to fish the cables through for those which run parallel to the joists. How would I do it for those which don't? When I spoke to an electrician about the job, he said he would 'fish the lot through'....
The obvious solution would be to lift a load more floorboards and drill through joists, but I'm wondering if there's a simpler way, especially due to the fact that the bathroom is above the room in question!
Thanks in advance!

ormus

lift the floorboards up or take the ceiling down.
your choice.

27col

I did once cut circular holes in a ceiling which was below a flat roof. We drilled enough holes so as to be able to cable to the new light positions and then the circular cut-outs were stuck back in the holes and made good. It all seemed to work very well. In some places the cut out were large enough so that we could drill the joists at an angle. A bit fiddly, but perfectly doable.

wafers

Cheers for the replies. Foolishly, we have left it until after the ceiling has been plastered
Plan now is to lift floorboards and crack on with it.

DVardysShadow

Depends how precious you feel about your new ceiling. You could run miniature plastic trunking in the corner between wall and ceiling in the axis across joists and run cables from that in the ceiling with the joists by fishing.

anotherbaldrick

I watched a couple of builders do this on our office, wondered how they would go about it. Just took claw paine hammer to ceiling below bang,bang,bang, holes in the plasterboard alongside each joist big enough to get long bit in electric drill . Pull through wires , skim up ceiling hoover up up dust.