Looking for lighting fixtures with smaller housing to be used as vanity lights
Hello. Our bathroom has been ripped out to the stud walls. Above the bathroom is an attic with a plywood floor. The electrician put in two of the 7 1/2″ housings for recessed lighting in bathrooms but it sticks up through the floor of the attic thereby making that part of the floor unusable. We’ll have to remove the housings (luckily the ceiling is not yet finished) but what can we put up instead? I looked at some of the Nora Lighting housings that were not as tall but am confused about IC/non-IC, acceptable for wet/damp areas, proximity to insulation, etc. Are there any smaller housings that I might use? Do you have any different products that would shed light down on the vanity that do not need such big housings? Thanks for any advice.
Answer: IC and NON IC refers to Insulated Ceilings and Non Insulated Ceilings. There is a precaution to take when your ceilings are insulated in which case you would have to use IC or insulated Ceiling rated housing. One of our smaller housings are about 4″.
Instead of using recessed lighting, you can get a ceiling can adapter and hang pendant lights from the existing holes. Manufacturers like Tech lighting and LBL lighting offer such adapters and pendants.