Recessed Lighting Install with NO ATTIC ACCESS - Led Lights, Dimmer Switch, Separate Fan Switch.

hello random youtube people i'm back with another diy video in my videos i am by no means an expert but i show you the processes i take to accomplish the tasks that i have in front of me today we're going to be adding recess can lighting and removing these two fans to replace them with one bigger fan and in this scenario i don't have access to the attic the room above me is the master bedroom and i don't want to go ripping up the carpet and pulling up the drywall or the flooring just to get through the lighting so we're going to show you the processes that i take this will require some opening of the walls but hopefully it's very minimal this is my family room i currently have two fans which has been nice but what i want to do is add a entertainment center over here and i want to build it into the wall with one of those cool little led fireplaces down here and by the time we have the fireplace a mantle and the tv will be wall mounted even higher and we get really close to this fan blade right here it's not a very far distance between here and there so if i do add what i want to the entertainment center i'm going to run into the problem with this fan being really close not only to the new wall entertainment center over here but when you're viewing the tv from over here the fan is certainly going to be in the way if the tv sits any higher than it is now so that's my first world problems and i'm going to show you how i'm going to remove this fan and replace it with the can light and then add two more cam lights one on that side and this side so that there's three in a row then in the middle of this area between the two fans i'm going to put a new hole for a new fan and then do the same thing over here replace this fan with three can lights so we have one larger fan in the middle it's out of the way of the tv and the future entertainment center so in this situation i have a switch over here and it controls the family room lighting and the hallway which is over here so currently i was going to hook the new fan up to this light but if you do that the fan will not work by itself unless the light is on these fans can work you know you have the toggles to pull the light and the fan so the fan will spin with the lights off but as soon as you flip this switch the fans are going to turn off i want to be able to have a fan in this room blowing air without having the lights on the only way i can do that is to run a brand new line i'm going to add a new switch for the fan and i need to run that up through the wall here and i'm going to go across to this light and then over to the middle and that will be my new fan switch that will work independently and i can leave that fan switch on because this new fan is gonna have a remote control to turn the lights on and the fan on without having to come over to the switch hopefully that makes sense on what the project is today so every situation is different um fortunately for me i was going to open up the wall up here just so i could see where the wires go through the top plate and then go back over to the fan over here so i didn't want to open up this side because you know i don't want this room to stay looking pretty and i don't know how good my patchwork is but fortunately in my situation i'm going to open up the wall on the other side because there's a bathroom on this side i've already brought my ladder in here so this is just the other side of the wall so i'm going to open it up on this side instead so i'm going to i've already kind of started a hole there i can focus i'm going to take that drywall out right there just so that i can see where the cord is going up through the top plate and i can go ahead and run my new wire in from this side into that hole and then hopefully run the wire over through the joist to the existing band so this is the other side of my wall the light switches should be right in this channel here about down to there so if i open up a hole at the top i should be able to run the wire down to the switch through here and then up over to the fan i may have to open up a hole in the ceiling i'm going to try to make the ceiling entry as minimal as possible but i don't know exactly where the wires are going through the top plate this there's a stud right here the wires could come all the way up and over to here maybe they're going straight up over there i don't know that's why we have to open up the wall a little bit is to know that they do have what's called a wall bot and it's a nice little stud finder that you can see wires with but they don't make it for iphone so that's a bummer anyways i'm going to cut this drywall out just using my box cutter here if you have different tools awesome but i'm just going to cut this down and remove it hoping that i can reuse this drywall piece um i don't think that i'll be able to but i'm going to try well i should have known better live and learn but right up against the ceiling here is right where those top plates are for the wall so we have to come down even further here so i've got a bigger patch job than i'd intended but live and learn well i ended up with a much bigger hole than i had anticipated but i have found the wire that's running through now it's covered in foam by the looks of it but i'm going to use my fish tape to feed this line through that hole see if it's going to get stuck anywhere on the way up at least through these two studs here but i'm going to end up using this a lot for this project again this is called fish tape and it's a steel rod used for pulling and pushing through wires through walls looking down through the hole that i cut you can see that they've stapled the wire to the wall it would be nice if i could just attach my new wire to this wire and pull it all the way through from the fan that way i wouldn't have to open up the walls or anything like that but you see it's stapled to the wall so i'm not able to do that now i'm only having to open up the wall because i'm running a new wire if i wasn't i wouldn't need to do this the fish tape wasn't strong enough so i got a screwdriver and i'm just kind of clearing out the foam that's in here and i have a new hole that's right here happened to be there um so i might run it out through this hole the new wire but this one i might go up the existing wire hole in my situation there happened to be another hole right next to it so i don't have to drill a new hole for the wire but i might be able to run the wire with the existing wire we'll have to see this project today is in two parts one installing a new wire for the fan and making it independent of the other light switch and then two adding recessed lighting i have these halo 6 inch led cam lights they're really nice because they just fit right up onto the sheetrock of the ceiling and you don't have to add a can and these use a lot less power this particular model you can pick three different color settings there's a model that's about twelve dollars more than this and you can pick five but i think that was not worth the 12 and extra per light because i'm doing six lights possibly eight lights we'll see we'll have another circular drill bit that's six inches so we can drill a nice little hole in the ceiling for the spot lights without creating too much damage and extra work of course a stud finder i have this also i got off amazon it catches the drywall on dust when you're drilling the hole so that there's far less cleanup now these are just some of the tools this will be for my new fan to have it anchor to the ceiling more securely um and this holds a decent amount of weight i forget where's it um 70 or 70 pounds ceiling light so anyways that should be great so these are just some of the tools and i'll show you the other tools as we go along okay so i cut the hole on the other side of this wall up at the ceiling and i can see that it's going to be easy to run the wire straight down now the next step i'm going to remove the face plate disconnect all the wires from these switches so that i'll be able to run the new wire nice and easy through this open hole i will also need to cut this a little bit to support a bigger gang box that will support three switches because i'm going to have another fan switch here so let's remove this and get going of course whenever working with electrical you want to remember to turn off your power um so we're on down at the fuse box i'm working up in the family room that's number 12. so i find number 12 and switch it off i also remembered that there's a hall light switch in that same box with the family room switch that i'm taking out of the wall i thought it was this hall bath but that's for upstairs i'm assuming it's entry outside which is 14 so i'll go ahead and turn off 14 as well and this is a bummer since i'll be working in the bathroom and i won't have any light in there but i did get this handy-dandy gear where is it gear light that my dad purchased for me nice led flashlight whoa see that'll be nice to work in this project with all of the lights off i'll see if i can find this i didn't purchase it but i'll see if i can find it in amazon put the link to it really nice bright flashlight this is also nice that my ryobi impact drill has a light on it so because i have little light because it's snowing outside and i have to turn off the fuse box so i can't turn on the hall light or anything like that having a light on my drill is very nice you may have seen my other video about installing a power outlet off of a light switch where i added a vacuum to my pantry this is going to be a nice situation to use this vacuum the whole life very nice and convenient but i'm going to be using it to vacuum out the old dust out of this light switch box so that i don't mess up all of the floor trying to get as little cleanup as possible it's april why is it still snowing this is a big mess of wires so what i'm going to do is take some tape and wrap it around each of these to tell me what it is so that after i pull this box out and i rerun everything into the new box that'll know which goes where so here's my hall so i'll say this is the hall common this is the hall red hall black so on and so forth and this will be the family room black the family room common over here and then you know family room this goes to the black and so on and so forth just so that when i'm reassembling this this works okay i've labeled all of my wires so this is i said front top right because in the top right of the switch when i'm looking at the switch this way um front or fan not fan family room black that haul ground hall common all common you get the idea i'm going to try to bust open these holes with a screwdriver so they're easier to pull through and i don't lose all my labels but the next thing would be to take this box out it's going to be nailed to the stud on this side right here so it'll take a little bit of persuasion to get that out of there but i think before i do that i'm going to make sure that i can run my wire through the ceiling it's nice and dark in my bathroom now but what i'm going to try to do is run my wire up here and then i can have some extra wire running down the opposite way but i want to make sure i can run it through the ceiling when i pushed the fish tape up through this hole earlier it felt like it was going on the right angle to go that way but i need for sure for the wire to go in this direction towards the fan there's going to be a um what's it called a floor joist around this area here i want to try to avoid opening up the ceiling and redoing all this texture work if i can so my thought was sorry getting off the ladder that rather than running the wire all the way over here just to see if i can run the wire i'm going to put a spot cam light right here anyways there's gonna be one this is gonna be two and there'll be a third one over there so if i pre-cut the hole right here i won't have to take the wire as far to know that i'm going through the ceiling because i'm going to be putting a can light there regardless if i can get the fan to work so my thought process was to put this hole here and it won't be as far of a distance to travel to see if my line's running then i can continue it over to here then i can continue it over to where i'll drill the new hole for the new fan directly in the middle of the two fans hopefully that makes sense so i want to get an idea of how much wire i'm going to need for this particular section i have a huge bundle of wire and i don't want to send the whole bundle through so the center is going to be here where my fan is going to be i'm just going to overestimate so that i know i have plenty of wire so from there to the bottom of the fan for about i'm going to round it to seven feet so we'll actually go even further we'll make this eight feet then from the fan hole here to the wall we're about another eight feet that's giving me a little bit of extra and then from here so we're at 16. so from the ceiling down to the switch we're gonna round it to about five feet there we go that's how i'm gonna measure the length of my core before i do this haul so that i have enough starting down and enough to finish the way across taking my 25 foot tape and i'm going to measure out about 25 feet i guess is what i'm gonna need there we go 25 feet all right i'm back in the bathroom and i've marked with a painter's tape about how far down the wall i need to go through the hole so that's the first part i'm going to do is push this wire on down to the fuse not the fuse the electrical box for the lights now the other end of my wire i'm going to put it inside the fish tape hook like this and then wrap this all pretty firmly with some electrical tape just so that these stay connected as i push them through the wall there we go nice and taped so as i push the steel rod through the wall the wire will follow now the next step is going to be i either need to drill that hole like i mentioned for the new can light or i may as well go ahead and take down this fan as well to see if i can get that wire pushed all the way to this point before moving it the other direction now that the fan is out and the fan mounting bracket removed i need to remove this little box it looks like they nailed this into the stud which is right here so this is gonna take some persuasion to get out of there not quite sure how i'm gonna do it just yet but i think i'm gonna get something in there to try to pry this out and praying that i don't damage the drywall here less prayers the better so i've got my handy-dandy light attached to my little step stool here now i reached in and i pushed up with my hand until i could get a little bit of a crack and then i've been using these little pry bar tools to kind of go up in there and kind of just push it away like so this particular one there's a nail on both sides and i'm not going gonna be able to get this box back down out of the ceiling it's too big so it's gonna have to sit up and just kind of stay up there in the ceiling but that's okay as long as it's not causing any kind of electrical problems it's very lightweight and plastic shouldn't be a big deal i'm just going to need to push my wires around side of it but i still need to get this out of here i'm getting really close but not quite there yet with those nails another tip when working with things above your head wear glasses well i finally got the box out of the way i had to use this big screwdriver i recommend if you don't have one of these nice big long heavy duty ones that you get one especially if you're doing what i did trying to get a box out of the wall that's nailed to the wall now that's just sitting up in there and it'll just stay there there's no harm done and i have one little concern that this hole is awfully close to this stud so i'm hoping the can lights that i got will work um sitting in this area even with this stud here i may have to extend the hole a little further i'm hoping that i don't but i'm going to run my wire through here see if i can get up in there and get a video of this turn on my flashlight it doesn't look like i have any joists in the way so that'll be good next is to just run that wire through the hole that i drilled over there what there should be a wire sticking out over there ah crap well i've run into a snag i thought the wire for the fan was coming up from this switch and going over to the light this the fan it's actually going across to the other fan over there and down to the light switch over there um so there's already holes in the joists drilled i might be able to run it through there i was going to get a big huge drill bit which i already purchased to drill through the joists but i may not have to do that in this case but i have to come up with a whole new plan here see my problem is i thought the wire was coming up the wall and coming to the fan from over there i'm looking at the bathroom or looking towards the bathroom right now i'm standing in the hole for the fan that i just took down there are no wires running up the wires for the fan were actually coming through from towards the kitchen there's already holes drilled there or popped out at least where the wire for this fan is coming from right there you can see it's bundled so i think what i'm going to do is i have to open up the ceiling in the bathroom and i'm going to use a drill to drill a hole through this joist here and then pass the wires through and i need to remember that there is a pipe or something here it's a little further away but i'm going to need to remember to drill higher than lower i think um yeah this isn't what i expected but this is what i'm gonna have to do stay tuned so this is an example of what can happen when you're doing this to existing can and not new construction so i imagine that this wire was the wire for the fan that ran up and went that way it actually is the wire for the hall light that runs up and goes back the other direction so i had to cut this hole in the ceiling i cut it far enough that when i put a new piece of drywall or try to reuse the existing one i can drill into these studs there but what i'm going to do now is there's already a hole there looks like in the joists i'm going to try to punch that hole out and see if that's all i need to do to run my wire up through here and into that hole or if there's another joist beyond that that i still need to drill into but that's convenient to have that nice little hole right there that saves a little bit of time those punch out really easy so looking through that hole that i just punched through that should be that wire that i saw from the other side so i'm going to go through the fan hole and see if i can see a new hole in the drywall or sorry in the joist here hopefully this is that easy i actually decided to start running my wire through the hole to see if i can see that on the other side poking out through the hole there well there you go you can see the wire poking out of that hole we just punched through the joist so this will be a lot easier than i expected but unfortunately i had to open up the ceiling uh more patchwork than i had anticipated or that i wanted but this will be a nice easy way to get the fan switch ran to this area and the next problem is going to be trying to find a way to push the wire through this hole i'm hoping that i can pull this existing wire out with the fish tape on one side and pull the new wire through on the other side um we will see if it's all stapled to the wall like it is over here then that's not going to work very well but we're going to find out well you can see the wires coming through the wall it's a little hard to push up through both holes but it's not coming straight across and i feel it's going to just keep bundling up in this little area so i believe now is the time that i should be drilling my new spotlight or can light hole halfway between here so that it'll be easier to pull this wire to this point i'm going to have a can light there anyways so i think now's the time to drill that hole i of course want the can light to be the same distance from here to the wall on that side as well and here so the first measurement i'm going to take is from the hole over the wall let's see how far we are the other side of the wires to the start of the hole is 55 inches that's easy to remember the end of the hole is about 59 inches but these are ended up going to be six inch holes anyways for the six inch spotlight and now from what i've read a good distance away from the wall on that side is three feet but i will take the length of the room and divide it evenly and make sure i put my cam lights in the spots that look best now back at the fan hole as my first hole i know i'm gonna have to make it bigger it's not big enough to fit a six inch can light so i've got my six inch drill bit but i'm going to move the existing wires out of the way and the stud is here so i'm going to line up the very back of the drill bit here so that it's going to cut a little bit bigger hole on the outside on this side now what's important is you don't want to go forward as you regularly would with a drill bit on these ones we want to go since it's drywall and it's very soft we want to go backwards so that we're not tearing into the drywall and this is going to collect my drywall dust as it comes down but still wearing eye protection and we want to go very slow this is in a race this is harder than it looks [Music] so we've got a nice hole started and i'm going to keep going slow my drill bit seems to be catching so try it again so you can see on this drill bit the teeth point that way so if you go the regular way which is forward it's going to just eat up the drywall so you go backwards and that's made a nice ring now i'm going to go i was a little bit off center it looks like unfortunately but now you can go forward and you shouldn't be eating up the ceiling because it's already been cut that little circle well that little guard to catch the drywall sure does make it hard to see my hole's a little off-center to the right and i went into the joist there a little bit i got my saws all out and rounded the corner i'm hoping that the light will sit up in there nice and flush now i'm hoping now that that hole's the right size i'm going to go ahead and do my measurements my wall is well my from all the wall is 180 inches so 90 inches is dead center so if i come out 45 and put a light in there that'll be even distance all the way through so 45 plus 45 plus 45 plus 45 is 180 so i'm going to go ahead and drill all of the holes for the rest of the ceiling go ahead and take off that fan as well remove the box just like i did up in the ceiling and we'll get running the wires well there's my new hole man i keep getting spam calls from canada today so up in the hole you'll be able to see that i put my flashlight up here but the wire is much more close now and i can pull it to this hole and then feed it on to the next then the next part is to drill a hole in the middle and try to run the wire through the existing holes if not i need to take that about six foot inch drill bit that i had got and drill new holes in the joists we'll get to that point well i have my wire run and it's starting to come out of the middle fan hole here i decided to un-tape this and i'm going to re-tape it and pull the fish tape back all the way through then when i go from here to the middle i will reuse the fish tape to push it through the joists i'm going to try to see if i can pull the old wire with it to get to this point so that i can pull it back with the new cord we're gonna see but i may have to use my drill bit to drill into the joists there's probably about three on here here and here that i need to get through so i'm hoping i can use the existing holes in this case but if not then we'll get to show you how to use that cool drill bit okay day two i have all the holes drilled for the can lights i figured i'd start with those because if the fan doesn't work out then at least i can still do the cam lights one thing i'd like to point out when doing these cuts use a stud finder we knew that because the fan was here right next to a stud that these holes were going to be near a stud i did use the stud finder but i just thought oh it'll be okay so i went off the measurement of exactly in this case from this tape line that i put up to here the middle was 35 inches which was the same on that side so i just went for it but i ran into the stud there so i recommend using a stud finder so you don't run into the stud in this case or in your case i also went back to lowe's and got a different can light this one's not the flush kind my wife was concerned that if we had that flush kind that it wouldn't look consistent with the can lights we have in the kitchen if i can find one here we are so these are the existing can lights in the kitchen if we got had those flat leds that i got before it wouldn't look consistent and it might look like it was a diy project where these are less like the flat kind they're or i should say they're more like the kind that we have so that's what i've gone with these ones are a little more expensive by about nine dollars a light so but they do have the option to select from five different color choices but once set it'll probably be good i also got these because they support um the ability to dim and i got a dimmer switch too that at the end of this project that'll be the last thing i try um but hopefully that works great next step of this project is to cut the hole for the fan i found the exact center of the room and that's the hole that you drilled i also drilled a hole that i can use to start with my sawzall or my jigsaw whatever you want to call those and i drilled right drew the circle with the box that came from the ceiling fan mounting kit which will go up inside but i thought that that would be a great way to know how big the hole is i don't have a drill bit that's this size so i'm going to have to use my sawzall and we'll get through the drywall i need to be careful because i know there is a wire running up here so i don't want to go too deep with the blade just deep enough to cut out the sheetrock i did a dry fit with the mounting bracket i just hammered it up with my mallet and it's a nice tight fit that's what she said but um that should work great so we'll pull this out next step is i'm gonna try to find that wire up here here we go with another vertical video but let's do some inspecting i see a wire way over there that's not for what we're using um oh here it is right there and i see that the wire here is not um stable to the wall so in theory i should just be able to unstaple the wire and pull it right back through here um that'll be great so it doesn't look like i'm gonna have to use that drill bit but i'll show you what that drill bit looks like and how i would have drilled these holes if i needed to the next step after having drilled my hole for the fan i was going to use this drill bit hopefully you can see that it is six feet long it's designed for this purpose so i was intending on putting it in my drill and right from my ceiling fan hole start to drill a hole in through the first joist then once that was done you push this even further into the next one into the next one all the way to that hole over there um for the old fan now i don't know if you can see this on the video but this drill bit has a hole in the center hopefully you can see that but that would be once it's drilled through all the way i would and sticking out of that hole you would tie your wire onto the end of the drill bit here and pull that back through and that feeds your wire back to the other hole here for the ceiling fan so that's what i was going to do but since the wire is already in the wall i'm going to try to just pull that existing wire out all right so this is the old fan and you can see up in there is the wire for the fan that's the wire i'm still going to use for the cam lights on this row so i need to keep that but i know that wire is running over to the new ceiling fan hole right there so what i'm going to do is unstaple it or take the staple off from the wall so that this wire is loose and what i noticed when i looked through the ceiling fan hole is that the wire was not stapled over here so in theory i should be able to pull that wire from here over to there so what my current plan is is to tape my new wire electrical tape it to that wire and tape in my fish tape so when i pull the wire it should go all three of them should go to this hole and then i can drop my new wire out of the hole then use the fish tape to pull the old wire back into position that's my new plan hopefully it works all right i'm going to try to do this with one hand on the camera but i'm going to reach my hand up through the hole and i grab onto the wire and if it's not stapled the wire should just pull forward or pull into through and it looks like that will work don't want to go too far because i need to now tape these wires together and that fish tape all right i have the fish tape taped to the wire now when i pull this existing wire through the hole to the new ceiling fan hull it will take the fish tape with it so that i can pull it back to where it should be with the fish tape next i will tape this onto this bundle here so i can pull the new wire through then i can un tape or cut this one and this one will still be bundled together and i can pull the wire back to its original position all right i'm back to the ceiling fan hole i'm going to grab my wire and well start to pull this would be a lot easier if i uh could use both hands so i'll put the camera down and finish pulling the wire through fish tape if you don't have some and you're doing wires and through walls there's nothing better this particular one is a 50 foot spool you can get smaller ones but man this has saved my life on this project all right so from here i'm going to run the wires for the spotlights i'm going to cut and run a wire from here to here from there there there there there there so on and so forth so let's get to it all the wires have been ran in every one of the spotlight here's the ceiling fan and the other lights so the next part i'm going to do is actually install the ceiling mount brace that goes up inside all right this is how the ceiling mount works so the first thing you do is put this up the hole and then these little a pieces or a brackets will sit on the other side of the ceiling sheet rock and then you will go and twist this and it will extend this bar out until it reaches the joist and then it's going to have these little pokey stabber pieces that stab into the joist and that'll hurt hold it nice and firm then once it's up in the hole you run this bracket over top like this all right you get the idea and then this of course will mount up to the bracket with the included hardware there's also a ground bolt here that you can put in this little corner and then you can run your ground to this there will be a ground for the fan mounting bracket and ground for the actual wire coming in here and they can all be grounded together in one nut and so i'll probably just cut an extra length of wire have a ground wire um over here to be able to do that so that's how that works that's mounted and pretty firm it's a little tricky to get that up here but it's pretty stable now you take the top part of the mounting bracket and go up over and center it around the top of your hole you'll kind of have to just eyeball it at first but then take the mounting bracket and you'll want to run the wire through one of these holes the center hole will be covered by the mounting brackets so you want to pick one of the other holes or a side hole i'm going to go for a side hole that needs to be punched out and i'll do that really quick i punched a hole out on the side and you can see there's a little rough metal point edge and inside the box it comes with this little clip and this is meant to send the wires through and not have them contact this little jagged edge of the metal so you'll want to install that as well and there's a direction that these go where the wires are going into the box it's pretty obvious when it's going in this way and that'll help it prevent tugging of any kind and i went ahead and installed the ground wire too i cut some extra wire and just took the ground wire here and put it around my box the next step is to run the wire through the plastic piece and then finish mounting the box with all the included hardware from the box from the package when i was tightening that up the ceiling mount brace came apart the problem is the teeth are at the top but this is connecting to the drywall and the joist looks like this so the joist has a bottom piece like so and so the mounting was only hitting the bottom and the teeth weren't getting into this part so what i've done is taken some three-quarter inch scrap wood that i had and i'm going to set this on top of the joist so that those teeth have something to bite into and that'll be more secure hopefully that makes sense and hopefully this helps if you run into a similar problem with a fan mounting bracket like this i of course lather these up with my favorite liquid nails first so that they stay secure it's another vertical video but i have the piece in line with the hole and you can see it sitting right on top of that lip of the joist at the bottom i made sure that i wasn't blocking any holes or anything like that and then i just need to do one more on the opposite side there we go now you can see this teeth have something to bite into and this shouldn't go dancing around like last time there we go now the ceiling bracket is installed for the fan and i've tightened up the bolts to the little bracket and then added these screws here and we're good to go next is actually getting the fan up we need to install the fan mounting bracket to these two screws here all right here's our new fan mounting bracket this one looks pretty heavy duty compared to the ones that i've used in the past so as far as the mount is concerned we'll undo these two screws and then this will slide right up there and then we add the screws back and it holds it in place just that easy no i'm not going to show how i install the entire fan you can read the instructions for your fan but just wanted to point out that the ground for the mount the ground or the ceiling mount and the ground from the wire um i had those backwards but all the grounds get wired nutted together here then you just continue the process of installing the wires for the fan black goes to black white goes to white in my situation my fan only has black and white you might have a fan that has a blue wire and that's to independently control the fan um with a separate light switch if you wanted to do that i have another video you can check out on how i was able to install a wall mount to run the fan and the light at this er separately from the single switch okay now we're going to install the can lights so i'm going to start with the outer cam lights first because it's a simple black ghost black white coaster white installation over here it'll be a combination of three separate wires the wires coming from the switch then the two other spotlights are all going to combine into one over here so i'm going to start with this one first or start with the outside ones first i should say i won't be able to get a good camera angle of the wiring of these lights from up on my ladder and in the ceiling so i thought i'd explain it here on the counter so each of these little halo lights will come with the light itself and it will connect to this little section right here and you just wire nut that down or tighten that little nut and inside each has this little connector so inside the box is a ground a white and a black and each of these support up to three additional pieces if you happen to have more than that you can pigtail them but we shouldn't have to work with or worry about that in this video here so we'll have the one going to the light of course then in the far can lights we'll have just one coming in then in the middle one where they connect to the existing wiring we have the left the right and the center can light and all of those will be powered off this one little box and that's really high pretty easy these ones are the push connect kind you just strip your wire and push it in there and it will hold on to it so you don't have to worry about twisting wire nuts and spinning them around together so should be pretty easy i forget what these are called it starts with a w warlock or warlow i don't know something like that anyways these are the new kind of connectors they're more expensive than regular twist connects but they just happen to come with the lights so this should be easy peasy and of course you will run the wires into the box through these switches and they do have the option to bust these out if you needed to run another wiring because you have the support for two if uh in the middle one i'm probably gonna have to pop this one out to add my third wire coming in so hopefully that makes sense i'm gonna go ahead and wire this all up i cut the sheathing back about three inches or so because that's how much is going to come inside the box here but you can see how you just push and connect it's nice and easy i wish they sold these for cheaper i'd buy them all the time once all the connections are made you just close this little flap and you can push this whole unit right up in there that's what she said now you can mount this to the wall if you want to you can just leave it sitting up there in the drive or in the ceiling as well since i have this nice access to the joist and these are six inch hole or wide holes i am going to try to mount these to the joists there but you do not have to so next would be to just connect the light i just did one screw i don't need to do two it sits tonight up on this little lip of the joist and i have easy access to the color settings should i want to change that last is just to connect these two back together there is a little vertical piece right there i can't get that on video at the top you can see a part that sticks down that will just line up with this connector here then you just tighten down that plastic nut and there we go now the cam light itself on each side has these little flaps and you just make sure you lift those up and push it through the drywall or have it hold on to the drywall and it'll just sit there nice and snug now these lights have a lot of play so i can sit and measure and make sure they all line up and look visually the way that i want them to just continue that for all cam lights well that took a lot of persuasion but i have the fan light or the can light from the left the cam light from the right both of those coming in to the side i purchased some of these little clips here are these inserts you can get those at home depot they're pretty cheap and then i have the wire from the switch coming in and they all go to the correct black white and ground now to just get those tucked away and finished putting up all the can lights next is to tackle the switch i'm gonna have to pry out that box and put my new box in and then rewire everything and then we should be done other than i need to still hook up the fan i held up my new three gang electrical box so i could measure how far and i'm going to cut the drywall out which will make it easier for me to take this existing one out this old electrical box is nailed on this right side i'm going to use this screwdriver and hammer out and just sit here and pry this baby out and get all of the wires out of this box before running it into the new one i had to get out the hacksaw to cut off these little nail pieces that were preventing it from coming out of the hole if you do this be sure to be very careful that you don't cut your wires well when installing well actually removing the old box i really messed up the drywall right here just started falling apart so i've mounted the new box i've ran all the wires through and so the last thing to do is just to wire it all up so here's my new wire for my new switch i'm going to attach the white to the white that's the fan because i want or sorry white that's the family room because i want these on the same circuit so if i turn off the family room it'll turn off the fan too i don't want it attached to the hall because that's a different breaker so these would not the fan in the family room would be on the hall so i want to make sure i hook this one to all these others and that really is all there is to it all right to have it all wired up we have the common ground or from the fuse box into both of these switches i've got my sun whining in the background the light switch for the family room lights or the spotlights this is the wire for the fan and then the grounds for this are for the wires i ran from the ceiling around from behind the wall i should say that ground comes into the back of the switch here and that black is also from that wire i ran through the wall the white from the wire i ran through the wall gets bundled together with all of the other whites from all three switches there was too many whites so i combined three into one three into one and then i daisy chained the whites together so these are all the whites and then i plugged everything else back the way that it was and let's go test it it's down at the fuse box turning them back on now if we flip the switch we have success one two three four five six can lights the fan is not hooked up yet as you can see but the lights work separately and that's how i wired it so this light will without getting shocked i'll turn the lights back off so my two-way switch is still working and next is to wire up the fan now that it's all wired up and i know that it's working i'm going to replace the family room or the yeah the family room switch with the dimmer switch that i got similar concept it just has a little sliding dimmer piece at the bottom the only part that's different about wiring this one up is that this green wire needs to go into the ground here as well that should be all let's try it out all right i have the new dimmer switch installed the power's on at the breaker so if i turn the light on of course my cam lights come on and if i pull the switch down right here this little dimmer switch lever i will get my dimmed light that's for setting the mood oh yeah that'll be really fun there you go now the fans installed i really like this fan it's very low profile let's see how it works i have to keep this switch turned on in order to use the fan so i'll probably just always leave that on now you control this particular fan with the remote control so if i click the power button it'll do a little startup cycle and it'll do this every time it starts brand new or fresh i should say and then it gets going to its previous settings now here i can also turn the light on and it's light is a little bit different of a color i can change the can lights to match um we'll see what the wife says but overall i'm really happy with this fan it definitely opens up the space if you'll recall there was a fan here and another fan here and those sat down 20 inches from the ceiling this one sits down about 10. so it's half as far and especially if you come stand over here and look into this room it's so much more open to me it feels like a completely different room it's got the nice bright lights and the nice low-profile 64-inch fan overall i'm very very happy with this work and i'm about ready to go to bed it's been a long process but hope you all have really liked this video i hope you made it this far thank you for watching my video i showed you how to install can lights without attic access how to install a fan on a completely separate switch so you can have the fan running even if you have the lights off which was really nice for the summertime during the day no need for the lights on but i want the fan going so now there are completely separate switches so thank you for watching my video subscribe if you wouldn't mind and again as always if you didn't like my video feel free to go make your own video you

Channel: DIY•BRY

Views: 205,766

Keywords: no attic access, reaccessed lighting, can lights, LED, LED lights, wafer lights, family room lighting, DIY, Fish tape, Wires through walls, Halo, Halo lights, Hole saw, Circle drill bit, pot lights, pot light, LED pot lights, recessed lighting

Id: U4B63VCt08Y

Length: 55min 43sec (3343 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021