Is there a standard height for the bathroom light box? This would be for your typical install with vanity, mirror and light above.
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Where you want the light to be. Although in our "big" bath the box is above the mirror and then two swags feed off of that to provide lights on both sides.
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I don't know of a standard height for the location of the light outlet box. There or many variable to be considered. For a simple straight forward installation, I use 6'-6" to 6'-8' to the center line of the outlet. This works for say a 2'-8" vantiy height, + 4" back splash + 3'-0" mirror and with a fluorescent strip type fixture or something similar. All of this is worth what you paid for it. :>)
And, of course, it's not unusual to see the vanity light connection just punched through the drywall, so that the precise location can be established later.
Especially when
in a remodel, the homowner doesn't have the light yet and / or doesn't know how high they want it the first or third time you ask.
We bury it in the centered stud space to retrieve later with a remodel box. If they want to hang a 40 pounder there later, we would use the remodel fan box support.
Of course, inevitably there's always a vent pipe right where you want to put the box.
Battling the vent usually happens when they want............
a recessed medicine cabinet.
No plumber worth his salt would have put one centered on the original sink. Nor to either side a foot.
Wait, I forgot-no REAL plumber would do that.
Same with the light-they never center the pipe on the drain.
However, in a remodel there's no telling where the "designer" wants the bowl.
I think something must have happened in the 70's when the full surface mtd . mirror came into style. Must have been a reaction to renegade plumbers.