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LED Lighting Installation
LED retrofits fail at the driver and the dimmer, almost never at the diode. Most lighting complaints are not about brightness. They are about where the light falls and what it does to the room.
LED Lighting Installation in O’Fallon and across St. Charles, St. Louis, Lincoln and Warren counties.
Clint Ehman does the work himself. Seventeen years in the trade, Infinity Electric since June 2022.
5.0 from 94 Google reviews · BBB A+ since 2022
What this work actually involves
Dimming is matched to the driver, because an LED on the wrong dimmer buzzes or flickers no matter how good the fixture is.
Clint measures before he quotes. The reading comes first, then what it means, then the one repair that solves it. If the honest answer is smaller than what you called about, that is the answer you get, even when the bigger job pays better.
Work that needs a permit gets one, and work that needs an inspection is left ready for it. One person does the diagnosis and the repair, so nothing is lost between a salesman and a technician.
When people call about this
- Outdoor fixtures full of water
- Dark corners no lamp fixes
- LEDs that flicker on a dimmer
- A remodel with no lighting plan
Why people choose Clint for it
The diagnosis and the repair are the same person’s work, which is why the explanation you get is first-hand rather than relayed.
Five point zero from 94 Google reviews, A+ with the BBB since December 2022, and seventeen years in the trade behind it.
Where this is done
A roughly fifty mile working radius from O’Fallon, covering thirty municipalities across five jurisdictions in the St. Louis metro.
See the full service area, or the rest of our lighting work.
Spacing is arithmetic
Recessed lighting is laid out from ceiling height and beam angle, not by eye. Too far apart and the floor scallops; too close and the ceiling looks like a runway.
Joist direction and position constrain where housings can physically go, which is why the layout is set before any hole is cut, and why remodel-rated housings exist for finished ceilings.
Switching as a layout decision
Switch legs decide whether a room is pleasant to walk into. The useful question is which lights you want from the door, which from the far side, and what you want on at two in the morning.
Three-way and four-way switching answers that, and it is cheap to plan and expensive to retrofit. Labeled legs at the panel mean the next electrician understands the intent.
LEDs, dimming and colour temperature
Two things decide whether an LED install looks good: the dimmer matched to the fixtures, and a consistent colour temperature across the room. Mixed temperatures read as a mistake even when every fixture works.
Fixtures get specified together, the dimmer is checked against the minimum load, and the whole circuit is dimmed to the bottom of its range before it is signed off.
What the price actually depends on
Three things move the number on almost every job: how far the run has to travel and what it passes through, whether the existing panel has space and the service has capacity, and whether the municipality wants a permit and an inspection. None of those is visible from the phone call, which is why the measurement comes before the quote.
What does not move it is urgency theatre. There is no inflated figure waiting to be discounted, and no bundle built so the thing you called about cannot be bought on its own.
What gets left behind when the work is done
A labeled panel, accessible junctions, the old parts if you want to see them, and a straight account of anything found along the way that was not part of the call.
Where something else was found, you get told what it is and whether it needs doing now, later or not at all. That third answer is a real answer and it gets used.
“Clint did an excellent job installing two bathroom exhaust fans. He installed high-quality fans that were far superior to the ones I had purchased from a big box store. I highly recommend his services.”
David Hinners · Google review
How the visit goes
- The call
Which room, what is wrong with it now, and how the room is used in the evening.
- The measurement
Ceiling height, joist direction and position, existing switch legs, and what the circuit already carries.
- The finding
A layout with spacing that works, a switching plan, and a dimmer matched to the fixtures you have chosen.
- The work
Boxes set where the fixtures need them, remodel housings cut in from below on finished ceilings, dimming tested on every circuit before the ladder comes down.
What the job includes
- Layout set from ceiling height and beam angle before any hole is cut
- Boxes placed where the fixture needs them
- Dimmers matched to the drivers so nothing flickers
- Switch legs planned around how the room is used
- Fixtures installed, aimed and tested
- Old fixtures removed and the openings made good
What it does not
- Supplying decorative fixtures, unless you ask
- Painting after a ceiling patch
- Drapery and blind hardware
Anything that is not an electrical problem gets identified as such and handed on. Finished work is in the gallery. To book, pick a day.
Related lighting work
LED Lighting Installation across the metro
Five jurisdictions, five different sets of conditions. The housing stock changes as you cross this metro, and so does what the job involves.
Lincoln County
Rural properties where the panel is fine and the two hundred foot run to the barn is the actual job.
Warren County
Warren County mixes newer builds with older farm properties, and generator work comes up more often there than it does in town.
St. Charles County
Twenty and thirty year old subdivisions where nothing has failed and the service is simply at its limit. That is the recurring call.
County by county coverage is on the service areas page.
Questions worth asking first.
How many recessed lights does a room need?
Spacing comes off the ceiling height, and joist direction decides where a housing can physically sit. The layout gets drawn before anything is cut rather than counted off a rule of thumb.
Can you match colour temperature to my existing fixtures?
Yes, and it matters more than people expect. Mixed temperatures in one room read as a mistake even when every fixture works.
Why do my LEDs flicker?
Almost always the dimmer, not the bulbs. LED drivers need a dimmer rated for them, and matching the two fixes it without replacing fixtures.
How long have you been doing this?
Clint has seventeen years in the trade and has been running his own shop out of O’Fallon since 2022.
What do your reviews say?
5.0 from 94 Google reviews, and A+ accreditation with the BBB held since 2022. The reviews are on the reviews page with links to where each was posted.
Describe the symptom, not the diagnosis.
That is usually enough to say what the visit involves before anyone is booked. LED Lighting Installation in O’Fallon and across the metro.
Mon-Thu 8-5 · Fri 8-4 · Sat 10-3. A written note works too.