Energy savings with the LED light and eliminated can light will repay installation costs in as little as three years , thereafter with perpetual payback of 33% on a pleasant investment. Energy conservation is a less important goal I achieve, than better illumination and more-productive living.
So, is this Seriously Funny ? The humor is that while I do this, 10,000 foolish installers are putting up ever more awful can lights. Probably they are installing 65 watt incandescent downlights, for reputed ambiance. Up twenty feet, defying the soon-needed replacement bulb. They aren't thinking about fire propagation, or much of anything. I don't know if anyone else seeks to eliminate can lights.
On average, the ant on the right path does matter.
Here is a plaster-patch method, very quick.
This is real, cheerful, light, 750 lumens 6" Glimpse LED, not too bright way up there over a shower, NEVER needing new installation on a can light.
Please see more of the photos of this post, with captions, at this Picasa Web Album .
1 comment:
Can't emphasize enough what a good and useful resource your blogs are Phil. I've read almost every entry at this point. My guess is you have a lot of readers even if you don't have a lot of commenters. I've learned a lot, but most of all it is refreshing to see that there is a contractor out there that puts both care and critical thought into his installations.
I've always thought that recessed lights were a strange beast with how heat is rejected to both sides of the ceiling. I only have 4 of them thankfully, & I sealed the holes & fixtures to make them airtight when I replaced 100W bulbs with LED downlights. Figured I will just bury in insulation when we redo that.
But your method for replacing the j-box seems slick, and it's a permanent fix to the penetration. So something for me to think about doing.
Garrett
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