How to mount recessed spotlights to the ceiling or false ceiling


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The recessed spotlight is able to give a warm and refined atmosphere to various types of environment. This lighting solution is increasingly chosen by designers. The spotlights can light up correctly, keeping a clean line on the ceiling and leaving the light to furnish, not the luminous appliance! Let's see how to install recessed spotlights!

How to install recessed spotlights: the false ceiling

Let's start by making a necessary distinction. The installation procedure is very different depending on whether the spotlights we want to place have the external lighting fixture or not. In the first case screws and dowels will be enough to fix the device, in the other case a plasterboard false ceiling will be needed to hide the body.

A false ceiling with spotlights is the ideal solution for particularly low rooms that would be weighed down by installing ceiling lights or suspensions. It is also, a useful idea to integrate light intensity into a room with indirect or accent light.

It will also be possible to choose an even more neutral solution by installing a model of concealed plaster spotlight for false ceiling. In this way, you will have the illusion of not having any lighting fixture visible on your ceiling.

In addition, it is also advisable to choose spotlights with LED lights, able to guarantee cost savings, but without sacrificing good light output.

Spotlights false ceiling position

There are no universal rules for understanding how to place the spotlights in the false ceiling. The right distance between spotlights depends on various factors: the size of a room, the type of lighting they are intended for, the amount of light required for the activities to be carried out in that environment and the power of the individual spotlight...

If the spotlights serve only as indirect light, then it is clear that they will be placed in the peripheral areas of the room. Otherwise, they will have to be distributed equally in the space by arranging them in one or more rows. To understand how many spotlights will be needed and at what distance to install them, it will be necessary to calculate the necessary lumens starting from: power of the single spotlight, room measurements and lux required for the environment.

Once the required calculations have been made, take the measurements of the relative distances, leaving a uniform gap between all the lighting bodies. Mark, using a pencil, the bulk of the spotlights where you will then have to drill holes with the drill.

How to install recessed spotlights

Before moving on to the actual operational phase, we remind you that this type of work is potentially risky. If you do not already have experience in this field, you should trust or be assisted by someone who already knows how to move!

Prepare the false ceiling

What do you need to mount the recessed spotlights? After choosing the lighting fixtures to be assembled, procure a drill with a cupped tip, putty, electric cables, and insulating tape and screwdrivers. To work safely, it will be necessary to switch off the electricity supply.

First you need to use the hole saw to create the holes needed to set the spotlights. The holes made with the drill will be finished with stucco. Finally, it will be necessary to uniformly paint the false ceiling.

How to connect LED spotlights in series

The greatest difficulty in installing the spotlights lies in the fact that unlike chandeliers or ceiling lights, there are many lighting fixtures and therefore only one electrical output is not sufficient. Depending on the total number of spotlights, the system must be designed differently.

Generally speaking, it is possible to start only one electric line to which all the spotlights are connected in parallel in the same circuit. But if, for example, we want to divide the spotlights into several groups (which can be switched on and off separately), then it will be convenient to set up several lines (with relative connections in parallel) that can flow to different switches (or to the same switch with switch).

How to mount the spotlights on the ceiling

The last action is to connect the spotlights to the power line: first of all, you need to connect the power supply to the mains, then you will connect the spotlight to the power supply just mentioned. The last operation consists in fixing the spotlight to the hole made in the plasterboard.

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