Recessed Lighting Close To Framing

Originally Posted by memetic

. It's really easy once you get the hang of it. You just have to close it up before inspection.

Originally Posted by JumboJack

And yet you asked a bunch of strangers for advise and you're still going to go ahead and do it wrong.


Check out the big brain on memetic.......

Originally Posted by ChrWright

Yes, I'm calling you a hack.... something I don't do lightly. You have no business performing this work--no matter who lives there.

You CANNOT tie new work to knob and tube. It's not permitted, nor is it wise. Yes, knob and tube can last a long time--but forever? There's a reason it's not in use any more--quite a few actually. Oh, but I'm sure you've worked in dozens of old houses and know all about that, right?... and performed electrical work for years and years... That's why you've come here for advice...

Do you know what makes K&T a real problem? It's hacks like you jacking with it. Leave it alone and let it do the job it was originally installed to do and it CAN last a long long time.

You're obviously not a professional, or you'd know better--or at least listen to those you've come here to seek advice from who've told you it's not a good idea (albeit in a manner that's probably bruised your ego).

As for your education--I've known quite a few folks with very impressive pedigrees who didn't have the common sense to pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the heal.

Did they teach a course in old house renovations at Yale? Or a class on installing cheap home center can lights in an application they weren't meant for? You demonstrate a problem many well educated folks have--they have no appreciation for the knowledge and experience anyone else has if it didn't come from a name brand school.

I don't care if you're cashing $1million checks every week--you've clearly demonstrated you don't know what you're doing IN THIS CASE.

Houses burn and people die each and every week from electrical faults in the homes they live in. Old houses are particularly deadly. But your education apparently gives you license to do whatever the F you want.

Please forgive our insolence and stupidity. You clearly have this handled. We'll go back to rowing the ship now.

Originally Posted by memetic

Originally Posted by MacRoadie

In all my years, I've worked with dozens if not hundreds of architects, the vast majority of whom knew the difference between IC and non-IC rated fixtures (and the appropriate installation applications for each). Licensed architects typically understand fire-resistive construction, the appropriate fixtures to be used in those assemblies, and the dire consequences of compromising said assemblies. It's ridiculously basic stuff.

Oh, and by the way, I too have a degree in architecture. Unfortunately, I must have missed the class on synergistic utilization of ignorance and arrogance in the built environment. Did they teach that in studio?

Originally Posted by BCConstruction

Hey man im the master hack around here Dont be coming on my this forum and taking away posts that that belong on my hack threads. Wondered why my thread went so dead

Originally Posted by 480sparky

BCC, meet handyman99..........

Originally Posted by memetic

I have a Master's Degree from Yale.

Originally Posted by memetic

I am installing uninsulated recessed lighting in a bathroom and one of the lights is a couple inches away from one of the roof joists. It is actually the little box on the top of the can that houses the wiring. I know that the bulb side of the light is very hot, but what about that little box? I can post a picture if that will help.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.