High Hats

What is your ceiling made out of? Is it sheetrock? Do you have dropped ceilings?

yes, sheetrock with dropped ceilings....its in manhattan.

Ours cost about $150 each with installation.twist that nipple while you type one hand slut For our 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom apt, we paid about $6000 for 42 high hats and 3 centerpiece lights and sconces, and had to run several lines (we had interviewed 6 electricians - got the quote down $4000). We paid the lecetrician $7500 in the end because we had to upgrade our electrical panel for a stove we bought. We also had to pay a patcher / painter afterwards.

Uh...someone is typing on streeteasy and has an internet porn/chat window also open. Whoops.

We did not type that second sentence and do not know where it came from. Any other problems with streeteasy posts?

FWIW, I very much like the smaller recessed lights (4"?) from Contrast Lighting. Tons of choices for the color and design.

"We did not type that second sentence"

Who is the "We" typing...just own it, more respect for you that way

Got to be one of the best posts ever

Honestly, who hasn't tweaked their nips a bit while surfing real estate sites one-handed?

Great denial, though!

I love this thread

But why? It doesn't have to do with Long Island City.

Newlooking: here's what happened. At some point in recent past, someone in your home was using the computer for some kind of internet porn. They probably had multiple chat windows open at once and typed that nipple-twist sentence into a window they didn't intend it for. So they cut and pasted it from the wrong window into the window they meant it to be in. Later, minutes/days doesn't matter, the same computer is still on and being used for streeteasy. In the post, you meant to start a sentence with a capital "F" as in the word "For" which is the first word in your post following the porn sentence. But your fingers of the left hand are settled a row too low. Instead of typing Shift "f", you hit Control "v" which is the shortcut for the paste function and the same finger movement combination as a shift "f". BAM! The porn cut/paste for the twisting-nipple was still in the memory of the computer and gets inserted into your post. Not seeing a capital "f", but not realizing you just inserted the porn sentence, you shift your fingers of the left hand to the proper "home" keys and type the Shift F and move on.

Someone using that computer in your home is doing internet porn chatting. Its coming from inside the house!

Instead of typing Shift "f", you hit Control "v" which is the shortcut for the paste function and the same finger movement combination as a shift "f".

And you can do either keystroke with one hand.

This is the funniest thing ever.

Just a side note, we just installed recessed lighting from sistemalux. I like them More then the other brands

I have WAC 3" recessed installed everywhere (bought from ylighting.com). The bulbs seem to last for a long time - haven't had to change one (cross fingers) in 4 years.

And how do they access the electricity source? Is there major cuts put into the ceiling? I dont believe there to be any power sources in the ceiling currently (mostly floor lamps and sconces on one wall). Thanks also for the porn and keyboard advice

If you have dropped ceilings, why would there need to be major cuts to the ceiling, except to the sheetrock drop where the fixtures will go?

kylewest's analysis reads like it was fashioned after a mystery-solving monologue you'd hear at the end of an episode of scooby doo. classic thread.

kylewest is invaluable in even more ways than we knew.

On a related note, when you giggle-spit coffee all over your keyboard, it's not ruined forever. Give it a day to dry out and it should be good to go.

Planning is key as most of the electricians don't use a beam finder and they don't measure correctly. For example, if you have 6 high-hat lights in the room, they start to measure where to locate the lights. After they mark where to drill the holes, they start to make holes. They might get it right let's say 5 times, but then the 6th is wrong or something is in the way, such as a beam or other structural metal(i.e., sprinkler). At this point they have to move the last high-hat light. If they move one, then everything is not symmetrical; thus, they have to start from scratch and move all other 5 lights and make new holes. You get the idea. Ask the electrician to use a beam finder to reduce mistakes. In addition, there are little holes near the light-switch and ceiling where the electricians had to snake the wire through the ceiling. They put the sheetrock back, but it still needs to be patched and painted.

I love it when you talk dirty, NewLooking! I've been a very bad girl installing some high-hats asymmetrically without properly measuring... What are you going to do to punish me?

A beam finder?

You dint need a beam finding, you can tie into the existing beams and put the lights where you would like.

NewLooking, you dare continue to post under the same oops-I-posted-nipple-twisting name? Have you no nipple-twisting shame? Had I made such a gaffe in posting, I can assure you no one would ever hear from me under the same name again as I'd be mortified!

Kylewest,

I don't even think I would post on this site anymore. I would have to go to curbed or something else for fear that someone would find out it was me.

Agreed. I would certainly have lost all interest in high hats.

the way i see it, high hats are also twistable. easy mistake to make.

Mr. Hat, Mr. Hand, what.ever

As long as it's not Mr. Hankey (The Christmas Poo).

Just back on SE today. Almost missed this one. It's best read out loud.
LOL!!!

I still can't get over that after NewLooking's nipple-episode above, s/he continued to post about electricians and high hats! I was dumbfounded. To paraphrase Chicago's Velma, ain't nobody got no shame no more.