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Installing Lightolier Recessed Lighting Fixtures
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Installing Lightolier Recessed Lighting Fixtures
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" Barry Driscoll from Driscoll electric is -- felt. New lightolier fixtures that are especially designed for remodeling work hey Barack. So you've just made -- first. Cut up there with. Also. And it gets rid of the plaster is this in the ceiling that we're trying to preserve. We're trying to make them five inch hole -- I'm told that we used economy that purpose and that's the size about how does it. Under the old horse hair plaster or hand plaster and now gonna cut away the wood lath. And now the roto -- we'll help you make the cut through the old lath. And the objective. Is."
" Authority roofing field."
" did fellow bit messy but that's the story of remodel now. You've got them -- installation up data -- its. Yeah we afternoon the we insulation away we're going to have to be at least three inches away from any -- of that light that we can put up here OK but this is a new type of recessed light that lightolier's come out right yes it is and that Khatami -- to remodel -- For an existing ceiling. In a new home if you had done or an old home where you gonna keep the sheet rock in your ceiling even this low voltage light fixture can adapt up into that. And give you a new evolution trim which is the new lightolier recessed style light. Has. Transformer inside and I was going to ask and you dispute it was regular 142 cable right that's right. The late gets wired with regular 110 amendment stepped down transformer. Steps it down to twelve volts fifty watts. We have to do their next. Going to take out one of the knock outs. In the back of the housing. And bring our 142 gauge wire right into it. We undo the conductors that are. Already pre wired for us. We have a ground. We have a hut. We have our neutral. Sending regular power into the housing and then the transformer inside of the housing is gonna convert our electricity for a low voltage bulb. Housing has a thermal protector on it. The case gets too hot in the area where that we are new shut the light off shut the light off before anything would happen it. Regarding removal of the insulation. At least three inches around the housing that's a clever design."
" the house he had ceiling like so. We're gonna pull this one piece right down on through. -- that. We'll take our housing. She went up into this."
" When tickets on the concealing it. He's going to take that strap. Pulling back -- push that strap back up."
" Also inside. Two sets of clips. We're just gonna lift those clips to the top of the sheet rock -- the wood left in the wood or whatever our inside surfaces. We're just gonna push them straight in. Up inside of the housing as a little set screw from the set screw is gonna tighten our trim right to the sheet rock -- make sure it's nice and tight."
