Under-Cabinet Lighting in Spring Hill, FL
Laid Out Along Your Cabinet Runs|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
In a Spring Hill kitchen, each place the wall cabinets break is where one run of light ends and the next begins. Kennedy Electric plans hardwired under-cabinet lights around those breaks, whether the cabinets are already on the wall or still on order.
Tell us how many separate cabinet runs the kitchen has.
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
Hernando's Permit Rules for Cabinet Lights
Outside a flood zone, Hernando County lets a kitchen remodel, and new or replaced cabinets and countertops, go ahead without a permit as long as no new plumbing, electrical, or structural work is required. Trading an old light under a cabinet for a new one on the same wiring and in the same spot stays on the county's like-for-like list, with the same flood-zone limit. On a layout with several runs, the line can fall in the middle of one kitchen, between a run that reuses an old fixture's wiring and spot and a run reached by new cable.
New circuits stay under permit in Hernando, a dedicated circuit for the lights among them. When the remodel calls for new counter circuits as well, every one of them can be planned together, so all the new circuits are known before the permit is applied for.
How it runs
Wiring the Lights Under Your Cabinets, Run by Run
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A walk along the cabinet walls with you
At the visit, we go along each wall of cabinets with you and settle which runs take light and where each switch point goes.
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The feed brought in from the right circuit
The lights take their power from a lighting circuit that has room to spare, or from a new circuit run for them alone. That choice is made on the walk along the cabinets, before any cable is pulled.
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Every run tried from every switch point
Once the fixtures are fastened and joined, each run is switched on from each of its switch points, and any run with a driver of its own is checked by itself before we pack up.
What we cover
Matching the Lights to the Shape of Each Cabinet Run
A kitchen can have more than one of these layouts.
A straight run of wall cabinets
One wall of uppers takes a continuous line of light, or linked lengths that add up to the run, stopping a little short of each end. The cable usually comes in at the end nearest the doorway, which puts the switch where you walk in, and the driver can sit inside the end cabinet.
An L or U with an inside corner
Two or three runs meet at corners, often with a blind corner cabinet in between. A run can stop at the corner, or a short connector can carry the light around it so both legs work as one. A U kitchen with two doorways can have a switch at each, both controlling the same lights.
Under-cabinet lights on short runs by the range hood
The cabinets on either side of a hood are often narrow, so the fixtures there are short and are sized one cabinet at a time. Many hoods carry their own light, and the hood's power is a separate connection: these short runs are fed and switched with the rest of the counter lights, not from the hood. The two lights answer to different rules as well. A hood's own lamp is part of a kitchen appliance, which the state energy code leaves out of its efficacy rule, while each new fixture fastened under the cabinets beside it has to reach at least 45 lumens per watt, or use lamps rated at 65 or more. The fixture's listed efficacy shows whether it does.
Open shelves or a peninsula with no cabinet above
Open shelving can hide a slim channel under the lowest shelf when its front edge is deep enough, with the cable kept in the wall behind the brackets. A peninsula with nothing overhead has no place for a fixture, so its light comes from the ceiling instead, and it can join the counter lights on one switch.
Pricing
Pricing Lights for Your Kitchen's Cabinet Layout
The number of runs in the layout sets the price, along with the length of each one, where the feed starts, and how many switch points the kitchen needs.
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.
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Show Us Where Your Spring Hill Cabinets Break
Tell us how many runs of wall cabinets you have, whether any turn a corner or stop at the hood, and whether new cabinets are on the way. Our office will reach you during business hours.