Smart solution for too many light switches
Tankless Tommy
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Lighting Question - How Many Are Too Many?
Comments (9)It's just not possible to have too much light, in my opinion. I've never been in a house that was too bright. When we were planning our kitchen gut, I added cans, pendants and undercabs. All the cans got switched up from dimmer to switch for one reason: I wanted to be able to use CFL bulbs to save on electric. These require a different fixture. The cans that can use CFL bulbs on a dimmer cost ten times what the switch ones cost. Hence, I got no dimmers. The old kitchen had two ceiling mount fixtures with four flourescent tubes each. The new kitchen has twelve cans in the ceiling, six pendants over the dining table and six pendants over the peninsula. I have CFL bulbs in every one; all different colors of light; none burn hot. We have four cans to one switch and 3 pendants to one switch. If it is too bright (which is never) I can always turn a switch off, (but never do). Having that much light in the workspace is just AWESOME! Yes, our neighbors think we're growing pot in the house. Yes, our electrician made fun of me the entire time he was working on it. No, I wouldn't change it! My cataracts no longer inhibit the activities I can work on in there and I think the food even tastes better! I'm planning on cutting more holes in the ceiling in the living room, and the little bedrooms if we ever get that far on the renovation! We're saving a bundle of money on the electric bill and don't have extension cords with lamps attached and cords to trip on anywhere anymore!!! In addition, we got the can fixtures that keep the bugs up in the attic from coming thru the ceiling. Nice huh? No more cricket carcasses like in the old tube fixtures! I won't ever have to worry about cricket legs or spiders coming down from the ceiling onto the dining table ever again. It's just wonderful! The undercab ones we got are halogen. They do burn hot and suck electric. Those I would change in a heartbeat. I worry about warping the cabinetry & my spices going stale so I don't use them much, except as a night-light when one of us is getting home late. The color of the light coming from them is yellow-er than the other ones and I don't like it as much. Another thing I hate about the undercab lights is the transformers take up space inside my cabinetry. What I love about our undercab lighting is that our electrician was able to hide all the wire so you cannot see it & it illuminates the back corner areas that are so dark. Seeing all the way to the corners is awesome & lets me use space I would ignore otherwise....See Moresoooo many light switches ...
Comments (4)C4 has higher levels of complaints from homeowners than other systems. In our own case we've had TV's and stuff turn on in the middle of the night, difficulty getting stuff to turn on, and recently when we select to watch cable it's fine until about a minute later when it auto switches to Apple TV. C4 does not write many of their own drivers so we've recently been caught without the ability to control all of the LIFX lamps in our house with our C4 system as before since the company who provided the driver was purchased by someone else who discontinued it. That's a rather major problem that C4 don't seem to want to rectify. It's possible that some of the problem is as much with the installer/programmers as with the system itself. Other companies have much more stringent requirements for who they will allow to do installs than C4 does. So perhaps a C4 system installed by someone who is also certified for Savant or RTI might be a good budget option. Overall though, those I mentioned above are more reliable systems and have more reliable installers/programmers than C4. BTW, jury is still out on Elan. They seem to have possibly gone downhill recently....See MoreSmart Home Solution - lighting
Comments (0)Hi All, I am planing lighting on my new home. I am looking smart home lighting system. I came across Philips Hue lights. But lights that i am looking should work with regular wiring as well. ( Traditional Switches and power) Please advice. Regards Chinthaka...See MoreChair rail too close to light switch
Comments (31)Please, do not cut the switch covers. It looks to me like the molding you have was flat on the back, so they improvised and installed it at an angle, not vertically, right? The bottom sticks out further from the wall than the top does. They cut the miter right if they were going to install it flat, as it should be installed, but installed it at an angle coming away from the wall simply because when they nailed the top, snugging it up against the wall, the wainscotting pivoted it so the bottom of the molding was then floating in the air! So can you get a fingertip behind the bottom of the molding, between it and the beadboard wainscotting? Is the bottom of the molding even nailed? What Bozos! I agree that you should first find the professional to hire, show them what needs to be done, and have them either purchase the molding or tell you precisely the type and size of molding to buy....See Moregreg_2015
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