Hello, bit of really basic help needed. We have just taken down the wall between kitchen and dining room in preparation for expanding the kitchen into the dining room - large kitchen diner lovely. (Paper wall in 10 year old house!)
Currenly have two seperate light fittings one old strip light in plastic casing in the kitchen and one ceiling rose style for the dining room. The light switch for the kitchen is now up at ceiling level in the middle of the new room - hubby has fitted a blanking plate and taped it all up so I think it is safe!
We are due to have a plasterer in next week to skim the ceilings as they are currently swirly artex
My questions are:
How do we take down the old kitchen strip light - will this be on brackets? Do we just leave the wires like the light switch with a blanking plate / sealed in tape?
Will the plasterer just plaster round this and then electrician fit new light over?
Do we now go for one light in middle of room - will be 3 m x 4m or keep 2 light fittings I'd prefer two as would be more flexible - not needing to be so bright when eating?
Should we have an electrician in to put new light switch for kitchen in before plasterer does ceilings and then come back again to fit the lights? (I think this has to be otherwise we are left with lightswitch dangling in middle of ceiling!)
Will the carpet/ floorboards have to come up upstairs to fit new lightswitch it will be going about 2 meters to lounge wall or can this be done by cutting through the plasterboard on the ceiling/ down the wall?
Can you have 3 light switches on one unit? This will be for lounge, dining room and kitchen or better to go for 2 units? We could manage without the lounge one as we have a switch for that already on the other side of the wall.
We need an electrician for extra powerpoints in the kitchen but with plasterer due next week would just like to know as haven't arranged an electrician yet.
Finally what would be a reasonable price for moving the lightswitch and fitting 2 new lightfittings?
Sorry ended up being much longer than I thought. Thanks for reading I'd appreciate all comments / advice.
Sarah
Currenly have two seperate light fittings one old strip light in plastic casing in the kitchen and one ceiling rose style for the dining room. The light switch for the kitchen is now up at ceiling level in the middle of the new room - hubby has fitted a blanking plate and taped it all up so I think it is safe!
We are due to have a plasterer in next week to skim the ceilings as they are currently swirly artex
My questions are:
How do we take down the old kitchen strip light - will this be on brackets? Do we just leave the wires like the light switch with a blanking plate / sealed in tape?
Will the plasterer just plaster round this and then electrician fit new light over?
Do we now go for one light in middle of room - will be 3 m x 4m or keep 2 light fittings I'd prefer two as would be more flexible - not needing to be so bright when eating?
Should we have an electrician in to put new light switch for kitchen in before plasterer does ceilings and then come back again to fit the lights? (I think this has to be otherwise we are left with lightswitch dangling in middle of ceiling!)
Will the carpet/ floorboards have to come up upstairs to fit new lightswitch it will be going about 2 meters to lounge wall or can this be done by cutting through the plasterboard on the ceiling/ down the wall?
Can you have 3 light switches on one unit? This will be for lounge, dining room and kitchen or better to go for 2 units? We could manage without the lounge one as we have a switch for that already on the other side of the wall.
We need an electrician for extra powerpoints in the kitchen but with plasterer due next week would just like to know as haven't arranged an electrician yet.
Finally what would be a reasonable price for moving the lightswitch and fitting 2 new lightfittings?
Sorry ended up being much longer than I thought. Thanks for reading I'd appreciate all comments / advice.
Sarah