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Thinking about adding recessed lights but don’t want to tear out your whole ceiling to do it? Luckily you don’t have to. With a little ingenuity and special remodeling housings, you can install a roomful of recessed lights with minimal drywall tearout and patching. We’ll show you how to install the housing and fish the wires through a narrow, strategically placed slot cut in your ceiling. The techniques we’ll show you will work in almost any situation, but if you’re lucky enough to have access to the ceiling from the attic, the job will be even easier. However, this is not a project for novices. You should know the basics of connecting wires and installing electrical boxes.
In this article, we’ll be focusing on recessed lights, although you could install any other type of light fixtures using the same techniques to run the wire. Depending on your choice of fixture, lamp and trim, recessed lights can provide general illumination or accent lighting. In this story, we’re installing a number of 4-in. diameter low-voltage fixtures that work best for providing accent lighting. These operate on regular household current but have built-in transformers to power the low-voltage halogen lamps. We’ll show how to add a second switch to control a group of 5-in. diameter recessed lights designed to provide overall illumination.
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