MiamiCuse wrote:

I have about 50% of my ceiling sheet rock down.

I am about to purchase about 50 hi-hat recessed lights for various locations
of the house. The problem is I can't decide whether I should get the
remodel kind or the new construction kind. The housing will be the same
size, same trim everything else is the same.

I originally thought I would get the new construction kind for where I have
the ceiling sheetrock removed, and where I do not have the sheetrock down, I
will use the remodel kind. That figures to be about 28 new construction and
22 remodel. All of them will be IC models.

But then I started thinking, is this a good idea, that some are remodel and
some are new construction, if I need to replace one in the future, it would
be difficult to remembe which is which, I can make a sketch and make some
notes, but perhaps it's easier to use the remodel kind for all of them, get
all the wiring in place, then hang new sheetrock then install the lights
then.

Any comments?

Thanks,

MC

Well, if you decide to go with all the same kind, then you would
have to go with remodel everywhere. This would mean that you
could put up the ones that go where you still have sheetrock,
then wait until it is all sheetrocked to put up the others. You
certainly can't use new construction where your sheetrock is
already up. So you can't put all new const. cans in.

You should put up the new construction (cheaper) where you can,
and use remodel where you can't.

--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX