[itsunclebill]

Anybody got a favorite cover/insert to keep texture and paint out of can lights?

 

[buddhakii]

Masking sounds like a painters job to me.

 

[papaotis]

the new ones come with a paper insert:whistling2:just have to remember to put it back in after wiring

 

[itsunclebill]

Are you guys around any real work?

Some AHJs will require any can with paint or texture contamination be replaced - no washing or scraping allowed. That means the can has to be completely sealed off at the ceiling.

Yeah, it's the painter's/drywaller's job - just looking for something that works and is quick. Thinking something resembling a flexible pot pie plate. I'm not really interested in replacing 50 cans after paint is done and looking for a product to pass along to drywaller

 

[union347sparky]

Are you guys around any real work? Some AHJs will require any can with paint or texture contamination be replaced - no washing or scraping allowed. That means the can has to be completely sealed off at the ceiling. Yeah, it's the painter's/drywaller's job - just looking for something that works and is quick. Thinking something resembling a flexible pot pie plate. I'm not really interested in replacing 50 cans after paint is done and looking for a product to pass along to drywaller

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[bobelectric]

Don't trim out until everything's finished.

 

[macmikeman]

What is wrong with the little red ones that come with the cans?

 

[brichter]

Newspaper or unfaced fiberglass insulation stuffed into the can.

 

[brichter]

What is wrong with the little red ones that come with the cans?

Those only protect the socket.

 

[brian john]

Can Light Cork? Wine or???????

 

[Pete m.]

Are you guys around any real work?

Some AHJs will require any can with paint or texture contamination be replaced - no washing or scraping allowed. That means the can has to be completely sealed off at the ceiling.

Yeah, it's the painter's/drywaller's job - just looking for something that works and is quick. Thinking something resembling a flexible pot pie plate. I'm not really interested in replacing 50 cans after paint is done and looking for a product to pass along to drywaller

Wow.. Guess I'm not doing my job. Never heard of that one. So what code section are you violating?

Pete

 

[union347sparky]

Wow.. Guess I'm not doing my job. Never heard of that one. So what code section are you violating? Pete

My guess is the interior of can isn't "listed" to be painted.

 

[Mshea]

My guess is the interior of can isn't "listed" to be painted.

You get the cigar but I don't deal in tobacco products or other drugs either so I have no idea who gives you the cigar
pretty darn strict electical inspectors but that is correct, the luminaire was built without paint, it was tested without paint so it must be paintless in installation or it has been altered from its listing which voids the listing.

 

[btharmy]

You get the cigar but I don't deal in tobacco products or other drugs either so I have no idea who gives you the cigar
pretty darn strict electical inspectors but that is correct, the luminaire was built without paint, it was tested without paint so it must be paintless in installation or it has been altered from its listing which voids the listing.

That's a pretty flimsy basis for enforcement. Surface mounted conduit, J-boxes and fittings are painted all the time. Your inspector needs to get a life.

 

[aftershockews]

Tell the inspector that those were custom ordered cans from the supply house.


That is how they looked when you bought them.

 

[Techy]

I have had inspectors require painted/textured over stickers inside the cans be replaced

 

[ecelectric]

Usually painters around my area stuff them with news paper

 

[Next72969]

You get the cigar but I don't deal in tobacco products or other drugs either so I have no idea who gives you the cigar pretty darn strict electical inspectors but that is correct, the luminaire was built without paint, it was tested without paint so it must be paintless in installation or it has been altered from its listing which voids the listing.

Id faint if an inspector said this to me. When i wake up, id try slipping him 100

 

[220/221]

Id laugh my ass off if an inspector said this to me.

 

[markore]

I have two of these. Want one? 3M hand masker m3000