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Best way to install under cabinet lighting?
Posted on 4/5/17 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 4/5/17 at 3:59 pm
I want to install under cabinet lighting in my kitchen, but don't want to run wires to the outlets in the backsplash. I know I could run it into the cabinets, but I want to wire it to the main switch.
Easiest way to do this without ripping up cabinets and throwing in pop in boxes?
Easiest way to do this without ripping up cabinets and throwing in pop in boxes?
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:04 pm to tigerbaittrick
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Easiest way
Hire someone.
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:05 pm to tigerbaittrick
Under the cabinet?
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:06 pm to tigerbaittrick
There's no easy way.
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:06 pm to tigerbaittrick
sounds hokey but they'll be out of sight, battery operated under cabinet lights
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:09 pm to tigerbaittrick
Either go through backsplash directly under cabinet or go through cabinet at lowest inside point and drill hole and 90 wire down.
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:16 pm to tigerbaittrick
How much do you want to spend? How much light do you need?
You can get peel and stick strip lights near the edge of the lip of the cabinet. The wiring that you see is dependent on how your power is configured. Everything is going to be 12V or 4.5V, so you shouldn't have any issues with plugging the transformer into the 110V plug behind the fridge and running wires into the cabinets to where you need them. Heck, if it is 4.5V, you can install battery packs avoid plug-ins. (Maybe add a motion detector to avoid wasting battery life.)
You can get peel and stick strip lights near the edge of the lip of the cabinet. The wiring that you see is dependent on how your power is configured. Everything is going to be 12V or 4.5V, so you shouldn't have any issues with plugging the transformer into the 110V plug behind the fridge and running wires into the cabinets to where you need them. Heck, if it is 4.5V, you can install battery packs avoid plug-ins. (Maybe add a motion detector to avoid wasting battery life.)
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:16 pm to tigerbaittrick
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There's no easy way.
If you have a tile backsplash it's going to be a real bitch to get a switch and switch legs to each individual undercounter light. The best way you can do it is put a single hot off of a receptacle below your light and just have the switch on the light itself.
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:19 pm to tigerbaittrick
Check to see if your microwave has an outlet or is hardwired. Use that plug, and daisy-chain them to all turn on when you flip the switch on the first one
If you want it actually wired to the normal light switch, you're gonna be pulling wires
If you want it actually wired to the normal light switch, you're gonna be pulling wires
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:31 pm to Hammertime
Velcro
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:31 pm to tigerbaittrick
Easiest and cheapest is something like this:
Just search "under cabinet LED lighting"
Whatever you do, go with LED! I got tired of replacing incandescent bulbs from my prior under-cabinet units. I replaced them all with new LED units using existing wiring - took about 2-3 hours. Definitely worth the energy savings and convenience of not having to replace bulbs.
Just search "under cabinet LED lighting"
Whatever you do, go with LED! I got tired of replacing incandescent bulbs from my prior under-cabinet units. I replaced them all with new LED units using existing wiring - took about 2-3 hours. Definitely worth the energy savings and convenience of not having to replace bulbs.
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:33 pm to leveedogs
Forget under-cabinet lights. Everyone is doing under-light cabinets these days.
Posted on 4/5/17 at 4:40 pm to tigerbaittrick
Go LED and daisy chain them together then pop up into the hood cabinet if you have a junction box in cabinet above the stove.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 8:13 am to tigeraddict
I used the hue LED strips and ran it to the outlet my microwave is plugged into... Mine was easy because the plug was in a cabinet so I was able to fish the strips through the interior cabinets so there's no visible wiring,
Posted on 4/6/17 at 8:24 am to triggs85
This is the expensive DIYS install.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 8:24 am to tigerbaittrick
Call CP3.... That's how he burned his apartment down... 
Posted on 4/6/17 at 8:31 am to tigerbaittrick
Get some of them cheap arse chinese leds
Posted on 4/6/17 at 8:33 am to 777Tiger
quote:
they'll be out of sight, battery operated under cabinet lights
This is pretty much your only option if wanting "easy"
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