Downlighters in suspended ceiling

[seasickstevie]

16 lights!!!!!!!

Are they all 50w?

So it's you that's causing the ice caps to melt.

 

[stevebamford]

ah forgot the one over the shower - that makes 17

Is that why our bathroom is so hot ?

 

[ColJack]

if they are 50W then yes.. that's 850W of lighting.. stand under a 500W flood for abit and see how warm you get.

an adequate level of illumination could be achieved with 1 x 20W ( 100W equivalent ) low energy lamp in a batten holder.
so for the sake of taste, you are burning 42.5 times more energy to light th same room.

 

[seasickstevie]

Went to the dentist the other day. The waiting room has been refurbished. Previously they had about 18 50w halogen downlights over the seated area.

They've now had new lights installed.

Guess what?
18 50w downlights over the seated area!

Same lighting. just in a different pattern on the ceiling.

It's impossible to feel relaxed in that intensity of lighting and all that energy being consumed.

 

[stevebamford]

These are the ones we put in

http://www.interiorsmegastore.com/i...wnlighter+downlighters/pid/6690284?afid=88888

Do you think we put too many in ?

 

[LoveRocket]

These are the ones we put in

http://www.interiorsmegastore.com/i...wnlighter+downlighters/pid/6690284?afid=88888

Do you think we put too many in ?

They have 100w lamps in them?

You have 1.7kW of lighting in your bathroom? That is pretty foolish, I must admit. A 500w floodlight will light a garden, 1700w in a bathroom? That's nearly as much power as a two-bar electric fire!

 

[stevebamford]

ah man - and I thought it was so hot coz of all the insulation in the roof !

I put the full 270mm up there !

 

[Steve]

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My kitchen is 11sqm, 2.6x4.8m. I have TWO downlights and a pendant, total consumption 72 watts. Its VERY bright.

Go figure.

 

[RF Lighting]

You need more putting in then

 

[maguire]

Given a choice I would rather have the stone cladding than downlighters
at least the cladding will eventually fall off
DM

 

[skenk]

2) Not long ago you could have said the same about stone cladding.

Almost all the nice old Victorian buildings around here are brick clad with stone, (stone cladding!?) still extremely popular and much more aesthetically pleasing than modern materials.

As for the term 'suspended ceiling' it is used all the time* to mean a false ceiling made from [whatever] put in below the original ceiling.



*by me, my colleagues and the OP for a start!

 

[RF Lighting]

I think suspended ceiling is known throughout most of the trade as any type of ceiling below the level of the 'proper ceiling' meaning the ceiling which also forms the floor of the level above.

It isn't an exclusive term for use with grid and lift up tile type ceilings.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Oh well - it's the only meaning I've ever understood by it.

The OP's construction I would have termed a false ceiling. Or just a ceiling. But never a "suspended ceiling".

YLAL.

 

[ColJack]

suspended ceiling = grid type ceiling with drop in or clip in panels that can be removed for access above.
drop ceiling = solid ceiling constructed of substantial materials below the existing ceiling level ( ie timber battens and plasterboard )

or at least that's how I've always been told..


as for the dentists reception, that's got it's own section in the new regs amendments...