I have a family member that just bought an upscale home about 20 years old 4,000 sq ft, and he had an energy audit done this winter.
The house has many of the old can light fixtures throughout that had incandescent flood lamps in them. The can fixtures are fine but the audit showed all the fixtures on the second floor to be major cold spots leaking heat into the attic space. This type of fixture is left open because of the heating of incandescent lights.
He went thru and changed out all the bulbs on the first floor to LED floods and loves the light level and power savings.
He wants to deal with the second floor problem and also switch to LEDs.
Is it to code to put LED lamps in the old cans and then bury them from above in insulation? I’m sure it would be safe to do as the LEDs produce so little heat, but there could be the fear of someday he sells the home and the next guy puts some hot lamps back in or something.
It seems a waste to replace the several dozen perfect housings he has.
Is there a sticker or something that says LED only that can be put inside the can?
The house has many of the old can light fixtures throughout that had incandescent flood lamps in them. The can fixtures are fine but the audit showed all the fixtures on the second floor to be major cold spots leaking heat into the attic space. This type of fixture is left open because of the heating of incandescent lights.
He went thru and changed out all the bulbs on the first floor to LED floods and loves the light level and power savings.
He wants to deal with the second floor problem and also switch to LEDs.
Is it to code to put LED lamps in the old cans and then bury them from above in insulation? I’m sure it would be safe to do as the LEDs produce so little heat, but there could be the fear of someday he sells the home and the next guy puts some hot lamps back in or something.
It seems a waste to replace the several dozen perfect housings he has.
Is there a sticker or something that says LED only that can be put inside the can?