I’m going to show you how to install pot lights in your house.
We’re going to put lights in 3 different rooms all over the ceiling.
It’s good to draw out on paper to give you a rough idea on where they are going to go pot lights.
This room is 20’ by 12’ and the 15 lights will be centered I want them 4’ apart going
long ways, and 3’ apart going across. recessed lighting
The distance away from the wall will be approximately 2 feet.
The most important part is to locate your beams.
If you have an existing light or cover in the ceiling, you can open it up and slide
a flexible fish rod until you hit a beam can lights.
Here we can see how far away the beam is.
Also this is going to be our source of power for our potlights
If the house is long this way, your beams will go across this way.
Use a stud detector to locate the beams When you come across a beam, put in a red pushpin pot lights.
If you have a flat ceiling you could use painters tape can lights.
We are measuring the lights 2 feet away from the wall, and 4 feet apart.
On this stud finder we can detect where the beams are behind the wall, and also if they
are metal recessed lighting.
It even detects electricity
If your basement isn’t finished, or if there is an area in the furnace room, you can measure
apart the distance between your beams.
This is good to use as a double check to give you piece of mind.
Once you have all your lights marked with tape or pushpins, you are ready to cut your
holes.
Our hole cutter is adjustable, the lights we are installing are 3 inches.
This plastic piece collects the drywall dust as it falls down.
There is a drill bit to start our cutting and line it up recessed lighting.
When we drill our holes, we don’t put too much force when pushing up, as when you go
through the hole, you don’t want to mark the ceiling with your drill.
It doesn’t take much force can lights.
Once you get your pilot hole started, just push up gently until you can feel it going
through.
Then slowly remove it and there you have your hole pot lights
Once you have all your holes cut out, you will need to drill through the beams to pass
your wires through.
We just need to drill down the one side then feed the wires across.
To run the cable through the holes, we can simply run a cable attached to a camera and
feed it through.
Once we have our cable running down the one side, it is easy to pass it along this way
as there are no beams in our way recessed lighting.
I’m going to cut the loops in half and strip the wires with these strippers.
I’m going to open it up and pull back on the wires.
We’ll just need about 4 inches of wire can lights.
These are 14 gauge wires so I’ll put the wire at 14 and cut off the insulation.
These strippers are angled so it should slide the insulation as I squeeze it.
Then I pull it off.
Once done they will look like this
The lights we bought are 3 inch potlights.
You can buy them at home depot or Lowes.
A pack of 6 is just under $50
They come with halogen lights.
We’ll be throwing them in the garbage and use low power LED lights.
They don’t get hot, and they save you energy while lasting up to 22 years.
The light comes off by pulling on it pot lights.
We remove the metal cover where the cable goes in recessed lighting.
Then remove the cable box with one screw can lights.
I will feed all the cables through the hole I punched out, and attach all ground wires
together, the white ones, then all the black ones together.
I’ll put all the cables inside the box, then close it with the screw.
this is how the light fits into the ceiling.
We then twist in the LED lightbulb we purchased.
Once all the lights are installed we can turn on the switch.
It’s good to install a dimmer switch so you can adjust how much light you need.
These lights can be controlled using Home Automation.
Click down below to see my other videos on how to set that up.
If you are installing potlights and there is an attic above, then you will need to install
these insulation covers in the attic which keep the insulation off the lights, and provides
a vapour seal recessed lighting pot lights.
They are fireproof rated, and are also for non-insulated rated lights.
This is important because you don’t want the heat to escape in the winter time into
the attic leading to moisture in the attic.
You place the cover directly over the fixture and cut around the wires can lights.
You can pick up an insulation foam spray and the covers at Home Depot.
You spray foam around the edge of the cover to give it a good seal.
You can see all our covers have lots of foam to keep out the moisture recessed lighting.
And the insulation won’t get in contact with the light fixture.
Once the foam becomes hard, you can spread the insulation around the covers to even it
out.
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