How to Paint Can Lights to Match your Ceiling
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2020
- In this do it yourself, DIY video, we go over how to paint can lights in your home. This is something we do in a lot of custom homes here in Idaho! When you change out those lights to switch to more energy efficient LED lights, make sure you use this little trick to really make your home pop!
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Thank you! Exactly what I needed!
Brilliant little hack and tip, thanks
Hey no problem at all! Thanks so much for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it 🙏
Love your explanation! So easy to follow and really helpful. Thank you so much! A new subscriber here :)
Thank you so much and I am sorry for the delayed response...I'm still learning how to see all the comments. So glad to have you with us here at Paintboss! I really appreciate your support 👍🙏
Liked and subscribed I'm doing this tomorrow! THANKS.
Awesome! I love hearing that these videos really help, it's such a great compliment! Thank you!
Do you have to prime these first or do you just buy paint/primer all in one?
Question: what's involved with getting the LED lights down electrically? We just had an amazing professional interior paint job but the owner said he couldn't or wasn't able to spray paint alll our tons of can lights? ANotherwords will the painter take a chance getting electrocuted? We just could not understand why he was hesitant and wouldn't take the LED light inserts down. SO now the white ceilings still have a yellowy paint color. VERY frustrating as it doesn't look as good as it should. Our house built in 2004 has tons of these can light. Any help appreciated! Loved your video.
I'm not the paint boss but hop on a ladder and pull one down. these lights are a fairly new style. lights in 2004 were likely much different (i.e. bigger, hotter bulbs, had a large housing in the ceiling). these newer ones are great. pull the light down (watch out for the mouse-trap clips) and unplug the connecter that is about a foot or two up the wire. e z p z.
I'm just speculating but it seems to me he simply wasnt interested in providing that as a part of his service. Some of those older lights can be a pain to take down, clean up, mask, paint, wait for them to dry and reinstall. They can have huge scorchingly hot and awkward to unscrew lights with barely enough room to get them to turn, stupid springs that are a pain to take out and a bigger pain to put back in, multiple pieces that barely want to stay in place as is, you fiddle with the spring a bit too much then it doesnt hug the ceilings correctly, you have then slightly move and they reveal drywall overcuts. Plus if you want them swapped out that is another possible multi-step process he didnt want to deal with. I know from your perspective it was a simple ask, but from his its a business decision that probably wasn't something he could justify doing. At the end of the day he chose not to offer that as a service for probably an overlapping combination of reasons. Maybe they were hard to get to and he didn't want to be up there a second longer than he needed to paint around them, especially if you had a hundred of them like in this video. There is always a line of where you start getting away from actual painting and crossing too much over into electrical, carpentry, drywalling etc. This video shows you a good option to convert them yourself if you can safely get them down. If not, I'm sure an electrician would happily quote you a price to swap them out. Sounds like you want bright white ones and not a custom color anyways.
Those are wafer LED’s not cans and not trims. Any electrician using wafers in custom home is a hack! You have zero control of beam angle with the wafers shown, the beam spread is 110°, which shines right into most homeowners eyes.
Make sure it’s a high heat spray paint …..
That is a good call 👍🙏
LEDs are cool and you do not need high temp paint.
Custom finish…..uses spray can lol