hey guys welcome back to the channel. today we're going to be installing these
amazon soffit lights that i have here. these little flat four inch ones, if you saw one
of my other videos i did the same installation on my soffits out in the front near the garage
today what we're going to do is install these same lights on the outdoor patio
on a drywall or a sheetrock ceiling if you guys are interested in the same product check out the
links down in the description to amazon where i bought these so i'll go ahead and show you
these lights up close and then we'll get started with the installation
so what we got here is the flat four inch low profile recessed cans i just installed right into
the ceiling or the soffit or a four inch cut out that you have here these have a selectable color
between 2700k up to 5000k that's five different selections on here and these are the second brand
i've tried the when i did the original one on my soffits i tried a different brand that only had
three selections i found these and i figured it's a similar product so i'll give it a shot the
driver box is constructed a little differently than the other one it's a little bit thinner
but it still does the same job it's got all the knockouts and everything on it the other one
was a little bit smaller and it was a thicker gauge metal so these come with the weather's
tight connections that screw between the light and the driver and then for the connection into
your house or your building you've got these push in huego style connectors that these come with
and they connect to your power and your daisy chain along the way as you go so you just use
the push connectors if you don't feel comfortable using push connectors you can always use your
traditional wire nuts but these push connectors for lighting make it really easy to install so
these lights i got are 10 watts and they're rated for 700 lumens which is a pretty poor lumens per
watt i've noticed that they actually perform much brighter and better than they're rated out my
soffit the ones i use out there were 9 watts with similar lumens and i ended up having to dim them
down just because they were so bright these are all etl rated and they conform to the ul standard
so they should be good to installing your house the way these work is you drill a four inch hole
a little bit larger than a four inch hole you squeeze them through with the little
tab connectors all around there and those spring loaded tabs actually hold this thing up into the
drywall and there's a little tiny seal around the edge that keeps it sealed to the ceiling also to
confirm these are also dimmable using your normal line voltage dimming i'm using these out front
using different dimmers they all work perfectly fine some of these do come with a list of dimmers
that are compatible with but you can try other dimmers and usually most of them work down to
a certain point so here in my outdoor patio i actually have very little light the only light
i have is from the ceiling fan it's very poor at night so what i'm going to do is i'm going
to install six lights out here to create a nice even pattern i might have one basically right here
one in between there and then one on this side on both ends so they match the first thing i need to
do is actually take this thing down there's actually two power sources going through here
because i checked the switch box inside they only wired one of them and they probably left the other
one blank i'm going to end up putting a double gang inside with two switches i'm gonna wire it
up so i have one for the ceiling fan and one for the soffit light so i have independent switches
but the location of the holes i'm gonna drill i'm gonna have to look for the beams and try to avoid
the beam that way i don't end up hitting a beam when i'm drilling the holes for these four inchers
since these are only four inches it'll be hard to hit a beam but you want to make sure that
you don't hit a beam when you're doing this so you want to use a stud finder to find one
so inside here as i explained earlier that red wire right here which is in the 14 3 romex is
actually a dead wire that goes back to the switch that's not doing anything the intention of that
is to have dual switching for your light and your fan and most fans and most light outlets
have it set up like this so so we're gonna leave the black and white to control the fan
and then use that on the new switch that i'm gonna install on the inside of the house so what i want
to do is install a light right between here kind of down the center i'm just afraid there might
be a beam it looks like the way the drywall is the beam is going that way and there's another
beam right there that's going that way from this where it's cracking but that this could be a joint
for the drywall so just to confirm that i'm going to use a stud finder and try to find all my studs
up the next thing i'm going to do i'm going to measure about maybe like 18 or 20 inches from
the wall here where i'm going to mount the first light and i want to be right in line with the
ceiling fan so i'm going to just kind of eyeball it and make sure i'm on the same line i won't be
far enough off the wall where it's not bouncing all the light off the wall but i also don't want
to be above the huge blades of the fan so i think like 18 to 20 inches is a perfect spot right here
that's 20 inch spot right there and then let me see how far i am from the center of this
there's about 54 four and a half feet that's 54 inches off of there
so that should be good i'm gonna go measure the blades and the thing to make sure that i'm
not more than four feet on those blades i think those blades are about three feet plus the center
and then from here i want to be able to line it up make sure i'm square so i'll get down
and look at that and then i'm gonna do i'm gonna mark the four inch hole first i'm gonna actually
punch some holes here to make sure i'm not hitting any studs before i drill kit comes with this
circle which is four and a quarter inches wide my drill is only four inches so i might have to
do a little bit of trimming around the edges once i cut what you want to do first is just
find where you mark your spot kind of put this up with a thumbtack i'm going to draw the circle
and to draw the circle i'm going to make sure uh all around here i don't hit a stud
also make sure i eyeball it to make sure everything looks like center
and i'm happy with the spot before i drill
all right so once you cut this hole you have pretty much access to see everything
that's above the ceiling so what you want to do is put your phone or your camera above here
start taking pictures all around to kind of see where everything is located
as you can tell along here all the way from this into this end i'm pretty much open to run my wire
there's no beams or anything that's going across this way that's going to interfere with me what
i need to do is on the outside there once i get near the eave you'll notice there's little beams
along every maybe 18 or 20 inches or whatever the standard is so i need to try to avoid those
so the first thing i'm going to do is actually cut the ones out here after i cut the ones on
the opposite side and that way i know exactly where i need to be so i don't miss it and then i
can match it on this side where i don't have any obstructions so the first thing i want to do is
probably try to run the wire between here and out there i have a knockout right here
i'm gonna open up hopefully there's nothing above here but i have a feeling there's a two by four
that they're using to support the ceiling fan so i might have to drill through there to try
to get my wire over i want to pop this knockout out and see what i have above here yep so i have
two by four there so i may have to just drill that through and then that way i can get my
wire over because the only other knockout is the one where the wire is coming in so i really have
no room there to try to get another 2 through there one of the things you can try to do too
is this box is actually mounted to the 2x4 using three screws here you unscrew that and try to drop
that whole box and see if you can work above there and then just screw it back up when you're done
that thing came off pretty easily with the three screws on there but what i see above
is two two by fours actually mounted vertically so it's going to be impossible to drill through
that to get that second knockout so what i might have to do is basically do some wiring
above here and then just push this back through and pull the wires through i need to
to wire into the circuit and then have everything above there
using that little slot that's open right there with the knockout and the strain relief right here
so next what we're going to do is get this thing ready to wire up up there in the ceiling so you
can do most of this on the ground so first thing you need to do is knock these knockouts right
here off just use a flathead just bend it back and forth and it pops right out careful this thing is
pretty sharp on the edges so just bend it and then you use some pliers to pop it out so then
you want to get some these bushings these black bushings that i've bought they're half
inch bushings you push it in there and this keeps your wires from scuffing and
cutting against the metal so what you want to do there and then you want to use these wago push ins
make sure you get all these things pushed in nicely and firm because you're going to end up
pushing the wires up top in also like i said if you don't trust these you go ahead and use
traditional wire nuts and just push them in so we just want to go ahead and push these all in
and then just pull them out make sure you get a nice firm nice and secure now so we go ahead and
go up top and wire up the first light so now we're at the first light that i'm going to wire up i've
already stripped these wires right here back where i need them just go ahead and put them through
the hole where the grommet i just put in or the bushing kind of put it in there and then you can
bend the wire you could also get instead of these bushings you could get strain relief bushing so it
doesn't pull back out i already pushed the neutral in you always want to go ground neutral and then
hot if you're wiring up hot but there's no power right now so i don't have to worry push that in
these things also have these two holes right here if you have like beams or something to screw it
into above the ceiling you go ahead and use that and just screw it in for my installation i'm just
going to go ahead and just put it in here lay it on top of the drywall above the ceiling just
want to go ahead and just bend this wire so it doesn't pull back out one of the things that
you want to do also is set your color temperature that's one of the things right here there's five
different choices on it i'm gonna go with 4 000 on my install so it's going to be the second one down
don't forget to set that to the color you want because you don't want to have it installed above
the ceiling and then have to take it apart again all right so the next thing we want to install
is our actual light and wire it up remember when i said that my drill bit was only a four inch and we
needed a four and a quarter what i'm gonna do is just trim where these two tabs are that's usually
in my previous installs where it's tight so i'm gonna just trim those two sides get those in
test fit it
and it clears it looks like it clears and you go ahead and just wire it up and then tuck it
up in here we want to do is get these two put them made them together they only go in one way
and then screw it tight so right now i've got it in there it's not flush so i'm just going to
trim a little bit more just to get it so that's why we drew those lines before from the template
perfect so go ahead and finish up all the install now
so we got these three on the outside installed as you can see it was pretty straightforward
fishing that wire was a little bit of pain in the ass just trying to get it past the raptors
i'm gonna go ahead and finish these two over here and then get this all set up and i'll show
you guys the final results so inside here is the current switch that we have for the ceiling fan
it's a single gang so what i might have to do is take this thing out
basically cut wider on away from the beam and put a double gang box in here and put
two switches one for the new recessed lights and then one for the ceiling fan
looks like we ran into a little hiccup here on this side where i thought we had some room it
looks like we hit the concrete block of the house i'm about to figure out what i can do
if i can chip away this block a little bit here in the corner to get the box in or figure out
how i'm gonna get on this side there's a two by four over here so i can't really move it that way
so i'll cut the opening as much as i can i'm about to go get out the big guns and start hacking away
at this i'll probably just end up having to drill through this hit it with a chisel just to get as
much as i can so i get that box in the problem is this is one of the corner pieces so it's not
hollow actually fill in the center of all the cinder blocks for structural support looks like
the electrician or the mason actually had to cut this hole out last time to get that thing in there
all right so that diamond bit did a pretty good easy cut of what we needed in here so i'm going to
finish it up with a chisel and hammer so all the little pieces right there i first took a little
bit out and then i went in deeper with the second half of it and was able to get all of it out
we were able to drill that out i kept on using the diamond bit to actually
clean up the edges a little bit and then i used the chisel to knock everything out
leah ended up helping me a little bit with that chisel as you guys saw in the video
so we'll go ahead and get the box in here now and finish up the wiring and then
so we got everything installed with the new ge z-wave switches all set up in my smart thing so
i'm gonna go ahead and put all this back together and we'll finish up the install so here we have it
this all six of these are on i put the ceiling fan back and it's nice and bright in here look at how
bright this is before i had like no light in here with the ceiling fan i'll show you in a second
what the ceiling fan looks like without these six new recessed lights but now it's a much more
usable space at night now i come out here hang out hang out by the pool everything looks nice right
that 4000k color is perfect not too blue not too yellow it goes perfectly for this area out here
hey guys thanks for joining me all the way to end this project i'm putting these new lights out here
in my patio as you can see there's a great space for entertaining during the summer we're gonna
hang out by the pool with all this light now at night if you guys found this video useful give
it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed to your channel go ahead and subscribe to your channel to
stay on top of all my different projects and everything i do around the house if you're
interested in any of the products that i use on this project go ahead and check out the links down
in the description i'll link to everything i use so that way if you guys want to try this project
you can do it too remember for all these different projects if i can do it you guys can do it that's
why i make these videos so you guys can have some confidence and do this stuff yourself at home
so i want to thank you guys for watching all the way to the end and i'll talk to you guys next time
you