Recessed Lighting in Wesley Chapel, FL
Planned From What's Already in the Ceiling|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
A Wesley Chapel recessed lighting plan has to fit around what the builder already put overhead, down to each can and ceiling box. Kennedy Electric converts the cans worth keeping to LED, replaces the ones that aren't, and adds new lights where a room has too few.
Say which rooms you're lighting.
Call (352) 251-2795, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or send a request online. Calls after hours are returned the next business day.
At a glance
Wesley Chapel's 2000s Houses and the Cans Above Them
About 7,500 owner-occupied homes in Wesley Chapel went up in the 2000s, more than in any other decade, by census estimates. Houses of that decade often came with a few incandescent cans in the kitchen or a hallway, and cans like those are where LED trims or new housings come in. Converting a can that is already wired is a different job from cutting a new opening.
The median Wesley Chapel home was built in 2006, which means half the housing is newer than that. In a house from the 2010s or later, the recessed lights the builder installed may already be LED, and the work there tends to be adding lights to rooms that have none or extending an existing row.
Homes here have a median of about six rooms by census estimate, and in an open plan the kitchen, dining area, and family room can share one ceiling. Lighting a space like that in zones, each on its own dimmer, lets the kitchen end stay bright while the sofa end is turned down.
Plenty of Wesley Chapel houses have four or five bedrooms, and in a two-story plan some of those bedrooms can sit over the kitchen or the family room, the last ceiling covered above.
How it runs
How a Recessed Lighting Job Is Planned and Inspected
-
1
A count of what's up there now
Before the visit, note how many cans or fixtures each room has, which switch runs them, and whether any are on a dimmer. A photo of one can with its bulb in place shows its size and trim style.
-
2
A close look at every original housing
At the house, the electrician opens up each original can, and the plan for each room records which cans keep their housing, which come out, and where any new ones go.
-
3
New openings marked and checked
Each new opening is marked on the ceiling and checked against what sits above it, from the attic if the room has one, and a mark moves wherever something in the way sits over it.
-
4
Permit, wiring, and the county's inspection
New openings and new cable are electrical work, which Pasco keeps under permit whatever a job's value. The permit goes in under Kennedy Electric's name, and the county's inspector checks the work before it closes.
What we cover
Recessed Lighting Matched to What the Builder Installed
Builder cans due for an LED conversion
Original cans that take screw-in bulbs can often be converted with an LED retrofit trim that screws into the old socket and clips into the housing, if the trim is listed for that housing. A rusted, scorched, or loose housing is replaced, in the same opening where the size allows.
One flush mount where recessed lights could go
Many rooms came with one fixture on a box in the middle of the ceiling. That box usually has a switched feed, so a row of recessed lights can start from it, and the old box stays as an accessible junction box under a blank cover.
A bare ceiling with no lighting box at all
Where the builder left the ceiling bare, every recessed light is new, and so is the switch leg that feeds them, with a new switch or dimmer beside the doorway.
A first-floor ceiling under the upstairs
In a two-story house, a family room or kitchen may have bedrooms above it in place of an attic. The joists between the floors decide where each light can sit, and shallow housings or canless lights fit the space between them.
Pricing
Pricing a Mix of Converted and New Recessed Lights
A conversion is priced from the number of cans and what each one needs. New lights are priced from the room's layout and the path the cable takes to reach them, which the visit settles.
Custom homes and large or multi-phase projects are estimated as soon as we can, or on the timeline your project sets.
Repair and troubleshooting visits are billed by the hour from arrival: $100 residential, $150 commercial, one-hour minimum, then half-hour increments, plus materials. No trip charge and no service fee. No hidden fees: the 3.5% surcharge on card and ACH payments is listed in our terms.
We don't do upfront pricing. No job has a standard price with us: each one is tailored to the property and the work you've asked for, and priced once we've seen it.
We offer free estimates on installs, upgrades, and replacements in our service area. Estimates aren't free when the job needs troubleshooting or testing to price, falls after hours or outside our service area, needs several meetings to gather information, or is new construction or a custom remodel with multi-party walk-throughs. For most jobs, estimates arrive by email by the end of the next business day, and quotes are good for 30 days.
Our warranty
05If something we installed fails because of our workmanship within 30 days of completion, we waive the hourly labor to put it right. Materials Kennedy Electric purchases for your job carry the manufacturer's one-year warranty. To replace defective materials we supplied, or materials damaged by storm, flood, fire, or other acts of God, we charge a reduced warranty labor rate of $50 an hour residential and $75 an hour commercial. The warranty does not cover materials not purchased by Kennedy Electric, work performed by the customer, or materials the customer purchased or damaged. Our warranty terms are printed on the estimate, the invoice, and the receipt, and the product boxes stay with you so you can register each product with its manufacturer.
Our Wesley Chapel house was built in 2005, and the kitchen has six cans with old floodlight bulbs. Do the cans have to come out?
Our Wesley Chapel house went up in the 2010s and already has LED recessed lights in the kitchen. Can new ones in the family room match them?
How many more recessed lights can go on the circuit our current ones use?
Our ceilings have a knockdown texture. Will new recessed openings leave marks?
The original cans in our Wesley Chapel house are 6-inch. Should the lights we add be 4-inch or 6-inch?
Reviews
Replaced Hat Lights and Two New Ones
Straight from Google, in our customers' own words.
Request service
Tell Us What's Overhead in Your Wesley Chapel Rooms
List the rooms and how many cans or fixtures each one has now. Our office will reach you during business hours.