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Not all parts for every fixture are sourced from overseas. When you pay top dollar, you are buying better performance:a. Quality reflector coating...
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over 9 years by micahelellis
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Quality recessed lighting????
Hold onto your pocketbook, here are my recommendations:For cheap, cheap, I like Nora lighting. A lot of trim options and a variety of aperture siz...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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switching out recessed lighting
Try leaving the downlights in place, and merely add the pendants you want. You can put them on separate circuits and use the downlights (or not) a...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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7ft Ceiling in high traffic Hallway-Recessed Lighting ???
This is a little different, but why don't you put three sconces down the hallway and bounce light off the ceiling. Downlighting leaves the ceiling...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Pull-Down Lighting
You want to lower a chandelier? Or lower a lighting system of recessed lights? Chandelier lowering devices are typically not seen, and are locate...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Fireplace lighting
Depends on how large your room/window/mantle combination is. I have this old family secret (my grandfather was an electrician) that I will share w...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Fluorescent light repair
Turn off power (duh) and open the fixture. There is probably a black brick of a ballast on the inside with two red and two blue wires, a black, wh...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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kitchen lighting help needed
Everyone is right and everyone is wrong. The best solution is a mix of lamps. Recessed compact fluorescent downlights (horizontal lamps for more ...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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lighting
In my (extensive) experience with fiber optics, it is overrated unless you're going to install it in a theme park lava pit or animated signage. Un...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Mogul base lamp
Only if the mogul base adapter is made for a 3-way lamp. I know that sounds like a smart ass answer, but the 3-way light uses three contacts inste...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Help with locating a bar light
Bar light, huh? I don't know what that means. Why don't you try using regular track lighting over the entire bar length, then order some of the d...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Pot Lights
Huh, huh. Pot. Awesom.
over 9 years by micahelellis
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flush fluorescent lighting
They do make those office fixtures that you're thinking about in single lamp fixtures, but you have to go to a wholesaler and order them. $$$
over 9 years by micahelellis
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recess lighting
Can lights can provide the coverage that you're looking for, but you would have to purchase high performance fixtures, with optics optimized for an...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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recessed lighting - dim in a series?
Sorry, but that is still (3) switches no matter how you slice it.
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Electrical, Phone and CATV Runs
To eliminate any interference with television, computer, phone signals, you really want to keep line and low voltage min. 12" apart, preferably 18"...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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berich
Without the special tool, you've got a pocketfull of plastic widgets. They wimply won't work without the tool.Hope you can spare an arm and a leg...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Halo lights
...and if the fixture is not IC rated, then you will have to keep the insulation 3" away from the fixture can.
over 9 years by micahelellis
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Plugs are upside down
As a courtesy, I like to install switched outlets upside down, with the switched leg undernieth. Kinds of a flag for the next guy that can't figur...
over 9 years by micahelellis
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