Have purchased Xenon Task Light (Nat’l Speciality Lighting) for installation beneath new kitchen cabinet installation. With need for wiring to begin soon, I wonder does the electrical cord just hang underneath the cabinet and stapled to bottom of cabinet to prevent cord being seen? How do you professionals install under counter lighting?
Appreciate thoughts!
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Just installed these at home, and couldn't stand seeing the cords under the upper cabs while I was sitting at the dinner table. I installed a false bottom on the cabs w/ holes cut for the lights and it turned out pretty slick.
Another option is to wire the light inside your upper cabinet. Then you just punch a hole in the cabinet bottom for the cord to come through. Not as clean as the false bottom approach but it may be easier.
Why not hardwire it?
We leave the romex hanging out of the drywall tight to the cabinet bottom or through the bottom back rail.
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If false bottom as the chase won't work and these are strip lights rather than "puck" style, we usually run stub wiring out the wall at each location of a light, close to the bottom of the cabinet. When mounting the cabs, drill a hole at the proper location in the back-bottom of the cab and pull the wire through. This in framed cabs, in frameless you'll have to just come out the wall at the right spot. This wiring starts at the switch, goes to the first lite, then another loop gets run to the next light (in the wall) coming out again at the proper location. We hold the strip lights to the back of the cab, lights the counter just fine, they don't have to be held to the front. No visible wire at all.
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Depends on the fixtures and the casework. My personal preference is for hard-wired (no appliance plugs), and some sort of chase for the wires (though I used wiremould behind a "light rail" on some frameless cabs once).
I've used the space between framed cabinet end panels as a vertical "chase" to get the wires to the cabinet underside, then wire-clipped the cables on the cabinet tops, too.