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Recessed Lighting Installations:

If you are looking to update and transform your home, make sure to consider recessed lighting.

A well designed recessed lighting plan and expert recessed lighting installation has shown to be a profitable and enjoyable move. . It can improve the light quality throughout your home, adding efficiency while giving your space a fresh new look.

Recessed lighting is attractive and functional and comes with several benefits; it makes your space look brighter, larger and more modern and these changes can add to the value of your home.  Recessed LED lighting is more economical and once installed can last for up to 25 years.

You will enjoy the benefits of recessed lighting throughout your home and we recommend working with experts as the right fixture and lamp can help maximize the overall effect and impact in any room.

Giving your family room, living room or kitchen lighting a makeover with recessed lighting is a great investment.

Recessed Lighting installation is important in the living/family room, an area of the house where people tend to gather for long stretches of time and engage in an array of activities, including conversation, watching TV, reading, playing board games and using a laptop.

Bookcases, built-ins, fireplaces, or an entertainment unit and even art work can be highlighted with recessed lighting. Adding a dimmer to recessed lighting provides a warm appearance. Recessed lighting is also effective in bedrooms, above the bed on each side with a switch for reading, for general lighting in the room, a closet, or even a workspace.

If it’s time to update your kitchen lights, recessed lighting is ideal for kitchens, and it’s what you’ll find in most new homes.  When determining the number of recessed lights your kitchen needs, think in terms of general lighting and task lighting. General lighting is what provides the overall brightness in the room. Since kitchens require a higher level of brightness than most other rooms of a home, you may need a few more lights or brighter lights than you’d use in other rooms of the same size.

Recessed lighting can provide many special effects throughout your home. For example, it can be installed in a living/family room is to wash the walls with light, which can be accomplished with recessed lighting when it is directed toward the walls.

Illuminating an entry way or hallway with recessed lighting is another way to provide a warm and welcoming effect.

Recessed lighting installation is a simple way to add a modern, streamlined and enjoyable update to your home.  Our expertise can help you make the best decisions as you plan your update and our vast experience will insure a flawless recessed lighting installation.

Do you worry about getting the right level of heating and cooling when you are away?

Whether you are traveling for the holidays, a long weekend or the winter or summer months, a Nest thermostat just might be the answer to keeping a check on your heat and air conditioning while away or out of town.

Today’s improved technology allows you to keep track of your thermostat from your Smartphone or Tablet, insuring that it’s operating in the most cost efficient and effective way.

In the past, the best way to save energy at home was with a programmable thermostat. Now with improved technology, the NEST thermostat provides a more advanced solution to your heating and cooling needs. Said simply, the new NEST thermostat can save you money and simplify your life by optimizing your heat and air-conditioning.  It adjusts to the right temperature that you have been doing manually regardless of where you are.  How does it do that?

The NEST is a learning thermostat.  Once installed and used for a few days it will acquire the temperatures at the times you prefer and start to activate those heating and cooling requests. Connected to your home or office WIFI it’s that simple. Control NEST with  “Nest Mobile app” on your smart phone offers all of the control you need to check in.

Lucci Electric is a NEST PRO provider and installer and that brings several benefits to you that you can’t get from “the big box stores” and doing it on your own.  For starters, we offer an exclusive 5-year warranty versus the standard 2 year warranty and we can make it seamless for you from installation as well as train you how to use it.  And if a problem does exist, when you are away, we are here to help.

NEST can bring you more energy efficiency, and peace of mind. It also “connects” with other NEST product such as cameras, smoke detectors and CO2 detectors.

In some states (including Connecticut), there are rebates available if you purchase a Smart thermostat (including Nest) and provide proof of purchase.

Check out this NEST Video to better understand how it works and we are here to help make it happen for you.

Shorter days mean winter is fast approaching and sadly this winter is expected to bring
more snow, ice and colder temperatures.* For your personal protection, that may mean a warmer coat,
and weather resistant boots. For your home, it’s time to think about protecting your roof, ceilings and walls from ice damming and water damage with roof and gutter deicing cables.

What is Ice damming?
Those “winter wonderland” icicles hanging from your gutters are not as benign as you think. Ice dams are caused by a buildup of ice that prevents melting snow from properly draining. The water that is trapped behind the ice buildup spreads under the shingles back into the house. Your home could suffer thousands of dollars in water damage from ice dams and frozen, blocked gutters.
Why is it dangerous
Ice dams and snow buildup are not only a danger to your roof and the interior of your home, but to people as well. Large chunks of ice hanging from a roof can break off, causing injury to people or damage to property. A slowly dripping ice dam can create a thin sheet of black ice on walkways, steps and driveways, posing a serious danger to those walking beneath.

What can be done?
Roof and gutter deicing cables can be installed to protect your home and NOW is the time to do it before it gets too cold.
Roof and gutter deicing cables are designed only to create a small open tunnel under the ice dam to allow water that is trapped above the dam to drain off the roof and or through your gutter system.
Roof & gutter de-icing systems help prevent both ice dams and icicles from forming by creating a continuous path for roof snow melt to drain from the roof. They have been installed in many homes in the area, saving homeowners thousands of dollars in potential damage.
These systems operate with an automatic control or a switch inside your home.
Once installed, you can sit back and relax when the predicted cold and icy winter hits!

*Prediction based on The Farmer’s Almanac and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.