You got a whole lot done! It is looking so nice. Won't be too much longer, will it? We have to change out a ceiling fan, but it's on a 14ft ceiling. My dream is that one day they will invent a pull down fan to make changing and dusting/cleaning so much easier. Will be calling an electrician for this one! Proud of your progress.
Looks great. I recall you have a vented attic so air will leak around the bezel of the can lights if you don't seal them somehow. This is because your house will not be at the same pressure as outside. I saw where a builder addresses this during the framing stage. He makes a sealed wooden box around where the light will go. The box is made by putting 2-by blocking in between the ceiling joists on each side of where a light is to go. He then puts a plywood lid on top, forming a box open to below. He then seals all the interiorseams with caulk. A hole is drilled into the box for wiring and he seals that with Great Stuff. At drywall time, he puts a bead of drywall adhesive to seal the box to the top of the drywall. And of course, if you mark the floor with your light locations, you will know where to cut out the hole for your light. It is on my list to do this detail on any future house if I end up having a vented attic. In my current house, it is on my "to do" list to take out the cans and put in the boxes since my attic is accessible. I guess another way is to caulk the bezel to the ceiling, some that will peel away from the drywall easily when the light needs replacing. Not saying you should do it, just putting it out there for viewers to consider if it is worth their trouble or to tell me how to do it better. ✌️
I researched doing th box around each light but with all the lights it was not cost effective for me to do, so I just insulated in and around the canned light. I am using all LED lighting so there is no heat generated within the can.
@@RedemptionRoad I think It is more cost effective to build the boxes and I think no more labor intensive either, considering that no cans would have to be puchased and precisely positioned. The boxes could be made from scrap pieces of 2-by and plywood. The cheapest air tight cans at a big box store is about $10. For the sloped ceiling, they make tiltable LED recessed lights that would fit in the 5.5" depth of the box. The issue is air tightness so airtight cans work too, but you would have to caulk around where the can pokes through the drywall. Different strokes for different folks, more than one way to skin a cat.
The crawl space is insulated so the cold isn’t that bad under the house, plus once the heat is turned on it will be a conditioned space to help keep the temps high under the house
Talk about progress! Great job dude. Awesome to tag along. Thank you for sharing.
You got a whole lot done! It is looking so nice. Won't be too much longer, will it? We have to change out a ceiling fan, but it's on a 14ft ceiling. My dream is that one day they will invent a pull down fan to make changing and dusting/cleaning so much easier. Will be calling an electrician for this one! Proud of your progress.
Looks great. I recall you have a vented attic so air will leak around the bezel of the can lights if you don't seal them somehow. This is because your house will not be at the same pressure as outside. I saw where a builder addresses this during the framing stage. He makes a sealed wooden box around where the light will go. The box is made by putting 2-by blocking in between the ceiling joists on each side of where a light is to go. He then puts a plywood lid on top, forming a box open to below. He then seals all the interiorseams with caulk. A hole is drilled into the box for wiring and he seals that with Great Stuff. At drywall time, he puts a bead of drywall adhesive to seal the box to the top of the drywall. And of course, if you mark the floor with your light locations, you will know where to cut out the hole for your light. It is on my list to do this detail on any future house if I end up having a vented attic. In my current house, it is on my "to do" list to take out the cans and put in the boxes since my attic is accessible. I guess another way is to caulk the bezel to the ceiling, some that will peel away from the drywall easily when the light needs replacing. Not saying you should do it, just putting it out there for viewers to consider if it is worth their trouble or to tell me how to do it better. ✌️
I researched doing th box around each light but with all the lights it was not cost effective for me to do, so I just insulated in and around the canned light. I am using all LED lighting so there is no heat generated within the can.
@@RedemptionRoad I think It is more cost effective to build the boxes and I think no more labor intensive either, considering that no cans would have to be puchased and precisely positioned. The boxes could be made from scrap pieces of 2-by and plywood. The cheapest air tight cans at a big box store is about $10. For the sloped ceiling, they make tiltable LED recessed lights that would fit in the 5.5" depth of the box. The issue is air tightness so airtight cans work too, but you would have to caulk around where the can pokes through the drywall. Different strokes for different folks, more than one way to skin a cat.
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Looking good, nice job on the paint!
Thank you.
Looks good. Another step forward. Burrr -25. How do you keep your water pipes from freezing/bursting?
The crawl space is insulated so the cold isn’t that bad under the house, plus once the heat is turned on it will be a conditioned space to help keep the temps high under the house