It's not the money
Even though of course, I don't want to waste any. It's next to impossible to get an electrician out here without a 6 week to 3-month wait. And if they have a problem then it's another 2 to 4 weeks. Or forever when they never come back. Which is what happened in my shed.
No thanks.
I double-checked everything and I turned it off. I have no need for anything on that circuit, it's a few wall outlets and it's two ceiling lights that I hate.
My newly installed outlets are obviously different and I run some high power distribution out of them to make sure everything is balanced correctly. I already don't use those original outlets. But I will cover the plugs and label the circuit breaker accordingly to make sure nobody gets too confused.
I have ordered a 10 pack of LED lights that look kind of like a 2-ft fluorescent light that I can string together anywhere I want.
I made sure they were directional. It's a long strip of single LEDs facing one direction. That gives me the ability to aim it without any backlight or scatter, which means no indirect light being caught in the corner of my eye. The current ones blind me all the time.
But I won't just string them together. I will intersperse them in such a fashion with remote control that one and then three will be on so we can have the gentle indirect to the corner of the ceiling ambient lighting or where the wall meets the ceiling or we can have the holy shit it's bright find something on the floor lighting. While still being indirect.
Now do that to two more sets of lights and you have total coverage with the various levels of ambiance and remote control required to replace everything from the previous lights.
How much would three sets of this cost from an electrician?
You and I have a different idea of what a few bucks is.
It'll take six remote plugs to have the level of control I want, which I already have, spare. It will take a few remote put anywhere simple switches on the walls, which I'm happy to buy.
We've had the remote plug discussion before so you know all the things I can do once it's in.
The 10 pack of lights was 80 bucks. I'll have them tomorrow and I'll have everything except the remote switches installed since they require the hub which is ordered and on its way. But I know how to program other plugs to trigger things to turn on and off. So I have the switches here as well.
I'll hide the wires tight white flat as possible rectangular conduit and it will be lovely.
This will all be done for about a total of 150 bucks when you include all the possible remote control stuff and it'll be done 90% of the way in the next two days. All while someone else is anticipating spending a few grand with an electrician to deal with the wiring in the difficult to reach places, if he ever shows up at all.
No thanks.
I double-checked everything and I turned it off. I have no need for anything on that circuit, it's a few wall outlets and it's two ceiling lights that I hate.
My newly installed outlets are obviously different and I run some high power distribution out of them to make sure everything is balanced correctly. I already don't use those original outlets. But I will cover the plugs and label the circuit breaker accordingly to make sure nobody gets too confused.
I have ordered a 10 pack of LED lights that look kind of like a 2-ft fluorescent light that I can string together anywhere I want.
I made sure they were directional. It's a long strip of single LEDs facing one direction. That gives me the ability to aim it without any backlight or scatter, which means no indirect light being caught in the corner of my eye. The current ones blind me all the time.
But I won't just string them together. I will intersperse them in such a fashion with remote control that one and then three will be on so we can have the gentle indirect to the corner of the ceiling ambient lighting or where the wall meets the ceiling or we can have the holy shit it's bright find something on the floor lighting. While still being indirect.
Now do that to two more sets of lights and you have total coverage with the various levels of ambiance and remote control required to replace everything from the previous lights.
How much would three sets of this cost from an electrician?
You and I have a different idea of what a few bucks is.
It'll take six remote plugs to have the level of control I want, which I already have, spare. It will take a few remote put anywhere simple switches on the walls, which I'm happy to buy.
We've had the remote plug discussion before so you know all the things I can do once it's in.
The 10 pack of lights was 80 bucks. I'll have them tomorrow and I'll have everything except the remote switches installed since they require the hub which is ordered and on its way. But I know how to program other plugs to trigger things to turn on and off. So I have the switches here as well.
I'll hide the wires tight white flat as possible rectangular conduit and it will be lovely.
This will all be done for about a total of 150 bucks when you include all the possible remote control stuff and it'll be done 90% of the way in the next two days. All while someone else is anticipating spending a few grand with an electrician to deal with the wiring in the difficult to reach places, if he ever shows up at all.
