Installing Can Lights On First Floor

My wife and i purchased a house and want to install recessed lighting in our kitchen on the first floor.

Installing can lights on first floor.

I m looking into installing recessed lights on the first floor of a two story house. The 4th light is behind me and to my right. We called in a professional for a quote which was incredibly high around 1 600 00. That wasn t going to happen.

Can anyone give me some ideas and advise on what i m getting myself into. There are rooms above the kitchen so this won t be as easy as just going into the attic. If you have an existing light fixture that you are replacing disconnect it before you begin the process of how to wire recessed lights. So we did some research and figured out how to diy it ourselves.

Remodeling electrical boxes or old work boxes are used to add electrical outlets light switches and lights to finished rooms in a home. Give your room a stunning new look and feel by installing recessed lighting. I m not sure how to get from joist to joist with the wire. Run nm b cable from the power source to a switch box and then to the first hole allowing at least 18 inches of extra cable to make wiring easy.

Their playroom is on the first floor of our two story house so we had no idea how to install recessed lighting without attic access. Do i have to cut out holes in the ceiling to drill through the beams and run the wiring. You can see 3 of the 4 below. The second floor hallway has 4 flushmount lights installed.

Even if you don t have access to the ceiling from the attic you can install these lights by following the directions shown here. We ll show you how to add these lights to your room with minimum ceiling tear out and patching. Attach the box this is where the wires will be connected and from which the light will be hung to a ceiling joist. Do not rely on the ceiling to support the weight of the light.

Look for a closet on the first floor under the same ceiling joists you wish to fish wires to your tanks where you can run cables from the crawl space along the surface of a corner of that closet into that ceiling joist space without having to fight insulation in outside walls and getting past top plates. Affix the switch box to the. If so is it easy to patch up the holes and re texture the ceilings to match back up with the current texture. I ve installed lights with an attic.

We decided to change out the two middle upstairs hallway ones into recessed lighting too.