The black housing and white ring won’t stay in place. The bulb is fine.
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Our carpenter put can lights(recessed) in our house and they fall out. Is there an easy fix to this?
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Our carpenter put can lights(recessed) in our house and they fall out. Is there an easy fix to this?
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Category : Recessed Lighting
The black housing and white ring won’t stay in place. The bulb is fine.
Comments (7)
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Get an electrician. |
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these lights are more than likely supposed to have been held into place by a bar that drills into your studs. id call him/her back and request this |
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Get a new contractor! This is like something that shouldn’t have happened to begin with and almost anyone can do. |
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It is very easy to fix, but may cost a bit. You need to call a qualified professional electrician. Carpenters are not qualified professional electricians and should not try to do work they aren’t qualified to do. |
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yup yup the lock bar is missing get it or get a sparky |
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Actually, it sounds like he installed the fixtures correctly. If the black housing and trim are falling down, he might have put the wrong trim on. Try to find out what the model number of the can lights is. Then search online for trim rings for them. You may just need to order the correct trim rings for the lights. On another note, how are the trim rings installed? Is there a spring "V" that holds them in place on both sides of the trim? If so, the "V" may just be bent out of shape and not strong enough to hold the trim in place. Take one of the trim rings out and bend both "V" out to make them wider. Then put them back in place and push up on them until they are flat against the ceiling. |
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Dolfin has the best answer seeing that he read your question properly. He is on the right track as far as how the trim is attached. It is usually by a v clip spring or jusrt a small spring that gets attached to to inside of the can itself. If your carpenter got Halo’s then that is your other problem. We in the lighting business joke about the name Halo. That is what you get with that brand for most all their trim pieces don’t fit well and you end up with a Halo of light on your ceiling. Be careful of cross matching other manufacturers trim pieces to Halo for most quality brands do not reccomend attaching their trim pieces to a Halo can. |
Get an electrician.
these lights are more than likely supposed to have been held into place by a bar that drills into your studs. id call him/her back and request this
Get a new contractor! This is like something that shouldn’t have happened to begin with and almost anyone can do.
It is very easy to fix, but may cost a bit. You need to call a qualified professional electrician. Carpenters are not qualified professional electricians and should not try to do work they aren’t qualified to do.
yup yup the lock bar is missing get it or get a sparky
Actually, it sounds like he installed the fixtures correctly. If the black housing and trim are falling down, he might have put the wrong trim on. Try to find out what the model number of the can lights is. Then search online for trim rings for them. You may just need to order the correct trim rings for the lights.
On another note, how are the trim rings installed? Is there a spring "V" that holds them in place on both sides of the trim? If so, the "V" may just be bent out of shape and not strong enough to hold the trim in place. Take one of the trim rings out and bend both "V" out to make them wider. Then put them back in place and push up on them until they are flat against the ceiling.
Dolfin has the best answer seeing that he read your question properly. He is on the right track as far as how the trim is attached. It is usually by a v clip spring or jusrt a small spring that gets attached to to inside of the can itself. If your carpenter got Halo’s then that is your other problem. We in the lighting business joke about the name Halo. That is what you get with that brand for most all their trim pieces don’t fit well and you end up with a Halo of light on your ceiling. Be careful of cross matching other manufacturers trim pieces to Halo for most quality brands do not reccomend attaching their trim pieces to a Halo can.
Thank you Mr. Carpenter for doing a great job.