Patching screw holes in ceiling?
I'm wondering if I were to remove the commonplace pancake style light fixtures from the ceiling to install recessed lights, can the screw holes be patched somehow so you can't see them afterwards? No...
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myredracer wrote:westend wrote:
I have my reservations about a recessed fixture for RV applications. It will need to be rated for heat transmission and might give up a lot of insulation space. If it's too deep, it might make an area prime for condensation because of the temp differential from the fixture to the roof skin.
I was thinking about the possibility of installing recessed LED puck lights which are only about an inch deep. Our 2013 KZ TT had them. We are getting a new 2014 KZ shortly and for 2014 they now have arched ceilings. We wanted the puck lights in the arched ceiling but they said they couldn't because it had something to do with how their units go down the assembly line and the ceiling panels are glued to the trusses and they can't install anything recessed into the ceiling. Seems a bit odd since there will be recessed speakers. I used to design lighting systems as an engineer. The interior of the TT looks really nice but the old style of pancake lights seem so "yesterday" and out of place and it will bug me forever... :(
Understood, as a guy that used to design lighting systems, the cheap-ass plastic fixtures, I'm sure, would be obnoxious.
If you have good clearance, a 1" depth should be fine. The LED's, in ranges for most area lighting, don't develop near the maximum temps as their incandescent counterparts.
Another idea would be to fashion a plate that uses the same screw holes for mounting. I used a .125" aluminum plate for mounting two of my card frame fixtures in the center hall location. This plate hides access to two 4" boxes that serve as distribution for my AC and DC wire runs. I even have an empty conduit in the ceiling for any future additions to the electrical runs.
