How To Install LED Kitchen Lights Perfect DIY Like Pros

Jeff Ostroff shows you How To Install Perfect LED Kitchen ceiling lights DIY style as the pros do it. You'll learn everything you need to make the perfect kitchen light remodeling and make your kitchen look brand new and bright like the beach using sound engineering methods used by certified lighting engineers. You'll also learn how to measure the LED ceiling light output on the kitchen counters using free apps on your phone to ensure your kitchen ceiling lighting design plan meets industry standards for lighting. You'll also learn how to install LED kitchen ceiling lights on a sloped ceiling, and pitfalls to avoid during your kitchen remodeling project.

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00:00 Introduction To Kitchen Lighting
00:51 Measure problem kitchen lighting spots with free light meter apps
02:05 3 Common Kitchen lighting design fails
03:45 Minimum Kitchen counter lighting illumination requirements
04:56 Designing your kitchen lighting layout
06:02 Why LED wafer disk lights are not good enough for kitchen counters
08:50 Choosing the correct kitchen light fixtures for your ceiling
10:18 Kitchen light fixture buying tips
11:58 How to read LED kitchen light spec sheets
13:13 2 possible kitchen light fixtures
13:39 How to space kitchen lights, make calculations
14:50 Kitchen light spacing criteria explained
15:24 Installing your bright kitchen lights DIY
17:23 Cutting ceiling holes for kitchen pot light fixtures
20:16 Quick kitchen ceiling lighting installation and wiring tips
21:41 Continue mounting and wiring remaining light fixtures
22:16 About the LED dimmer switch
22:42 More wiring suggestions for multiple branches
23:26 Testing the kitchen lighting brightness with the light meter app
24:54 First look at the final kitchen lighting remodel project

[thomasassim-ita]

Jeff, I've been following your Costco discount videos for years never knew how talented you are in other field. Thanks for this very detailed video. Appreciate your work so much ❤❤❤❤🎉

[jamestroy]

Perfect timing Jeff! Just about ready to layout lights in my kitchen prior to my installation of cabinets. Thanx Jeff!!

[Sushi]

Simply amazing what light can do! Beautiful job!

[andrewbeach]

Nice job Jeff. Looks like you cleaned their dirty dishes too. Full service with a smile! 😜

[Dbigpinoy]

Thank you for posting this...Now to find a good vid for under cabinet lighting

[davidbenji]

Glad to see you're pointing out the benefits of mounting the lights at 24" rather than 36". I appreciate what the lighting expert had to say about the wider beam of the LED light but I would think that could be compensated for by using both a higher lumen light and spacing them a bit closer together. The wafer lights are easier to install, MUCH less expensive, and easier to clean. I think wiring up two of the wafer lights to an extension cord then having two people on ladders hold the lights in different locations while I measured FC would be the way I would figure out the proper spacing for whichever lights I go with.

[jmcenterprises]

Jeff, great video, you gave us a wealth of information on lighting. Your videos are some of the best on youtube and I appreciate your efforts in putting out these videos.

[kittyfruitloop]

Thank you!!! Proper lighting is a game changer! We've remodeled several rooms successfully but still have rooms to go. Perfect video on a Saturday night after my kids are Also,
Please will you look into the recent sudden collapse of the New London, Connecticut 1800s church that happened 2 or 3 days ago. I love historical buildings and I play pipe organ so to see such an outwardly beautiful building fail makes me immediately think of you and your analysis. Plus I live playing in historic churches and wonder about structural problem signs to be aware of. Thanks!

[teresakistler]

Amazing! I’m so impressed with your skills, great job!👏

[gsantee]

The Lighting Masterclass - Ch 1 Kitchens by jeffostroff

[blurglide]

The flat lights might have a wider beam angle, but the beams are going to overlap with the adjacent light, so you'll have just as much light, and it'll be more even.

[barleyhops]

Great video, thanks! 100% a MUST to do dimmers!!!!

[hardlyb]

Our house had a lot of Lutron dimmers on the ceiling lights when I moved it, and they were killing the LED lights in the ceiling. Perhaps the dimmers weren't for LED lights, although the house isn't very old, but once I replaced them with on/off switches, the bulbs stopped dying.

[thomaswilliams]

Those kind of builders who install the illumination system they really don't know what they are doing. They just want the job to be done as soon as possible. It's not only in South Florida but all over the world

[ZERo]

Thx for the video! When would you use the recessed ceiling lights vs the canned lights ?

[watuzi]

Thanks Jeff, that was a lot of info to digest. I used the app you suggested to check the lights in my kitchen and I'm only getting around 30 FC's. If I upgrade my lights to a higher lumens, can I just replace the actual 6" led lights and use the old can? Or do I replace the whole assembly. Thanks man

[mynintendogamingfeed]

1, 600 lumens? Sorry; 5, 000 lumens at 6, 000 Kelvin would be exponentially better.

Edit: And 6 lights, plus 1 angled recessed can? I'm sorry. But the quantity should've been tripled, to 21 recessed cans in total.