Slow going on the new room construction as I've found the electrical situation in the basement is a nightmare, and thus, I'm pretty much tearing out all the ceilings and some walls to rerun the electrical wiring. Before all that I did install the new lights for the exercise room. At first I installed 4 but then realized it wasn't going to be enough light. The "light formula" didn't really work (room width x length x 1.5 = total wattage of light for room). I worked out that 4 60 watt bulbs would be sufficient, but it definitely wasn't.
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| First attempt with only 4 lights. |
Also - I wanted to get a recessed light that wasn't overly "spot-lighty." That's a technical term... After getting the cheapest ecosmart led ones, I traded them in for commercial electric ones. As the recessed light cans I got were also 6" commercial electric ones - the led lights I got were specially made and pretty slick. Instead of just screwing in like the ecosmart ones, they were actually recessed lights and had the proper metal wire catches at the sides, so the lights would slide up into the housing and flush against the ceiling.
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| Nice and bright! |
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