A flat. The block has solid floors. A suspended ceiling is to be installed with downlighters. Do the downlighters need to be the type with the fireproof casing, or just the open type?
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Thanks. I would rather have it can or it can't.I would say not, but if the BCO says otherwise is it worth the aggro of trying to argue?
Must be an enormous flat - I've only got 13 ceiling lights in a 3-bedrom house.There will probably be between 25 and 30 lights in all.
You're missing the point of what "fireproof" lights do. It seems you don't need them here, but that's got nothing to do with the type of bulbs in them, or how hot they run. If you were daft enough to grasp the canister of a fire-rated downlight with a halogen bulb in it, while it was on you'd soon realise that . Fire-rated lights are not about stopping the lights themselves from burning, or causing a fire - they are designed to stop a fire spreading from the space below to the space above through all the holes cut in the ceiling, and those holes are there whether the lights are incandescent, CFL or LED.Of those I have seen, the fire rated light units are around £9, while the non-fireproof units are only £3. so that is £60 to £180. A big difference. Having the fireproof units would be belt and braces for sure but using low temperature LED bulbs
Must be an enormous flat - I've only got 13 ceiling lights in a 3-bedrom house.There will probably be between 25 and 30 lights in all.
They aren't the only sources of light, but fundamentally what you say is utter nonsense.That's simply not enough to evenly light a house of that size.
I've got the sound, elegant, fit for purpose scheme of using lights designed to do the job I want them to do, rather than the idiotic scheme of trying to force inappropriate lights into an application they are designed to not do and having to use ridiculously large numbers of them to try and overcome their basic unsuitability.I bet you've still got an old fashioned lighting scheme in your house where you try and light the whole room with one bright light source in the middle of the room
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