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Thanks GaryMo. I just needed reassurance.

Thanks for the reply. I think the local suppliers here in Inverness don't hold as much stock as in the rest of the UK.

We are having the kitchen extension connected soon and the consumer unit needs to be replaced as there isn't a spare for the new electric cooker circuit. The electrician said we would need a 12 way but when he tried to get one locally they only had 10 way so he has suggested two 6 way consumer...

As I had been getting conflicting advice I contacted the local fire station and asked the community fire officer. He said optical upstairs and ionisation downstairs. Confused??? I know I am.

Thanks for the reply. :)

We have two mains smoke alarms interconnected, one in the hall and one on the landing. One kept going off in the middle of the night, and as they were about 14 years old, we thought it best to replace them. After reading about the different types we got one of each, ionisation and optical but...

Thanks guys. I will check with the manufacturer first.

I know that they have to be a certain distance from insulation, 100mm IIRC, but what distance from joists?

Anyone???

We have a Worcester Bosch 20-25 oil combi boiler but we don't have a room thermostat, instead we have TRVs on all but one radiator. We find that even on the lowest setting the lounge gets too hot so we have to turn off the boiler when it gets to 20 degrees. I have seen the wireless room...

Thanks for the replies guys. Steve, the comment I made about 45 degree spreading the light much better was in comparison to the 25 degree spot. We do actually want to have a beam angle, but more of a flood than a spot which is why we have the 45 degree MR16s. We do want the same kind of...

IIRC cool white is around 4000K and warm white around 3000K. So the cool white is like the Xenon headlights on cars. This is the colour temperature of our present MR16 bulbs which is what we are trying to achieve using a different fitting and bulb combination, with a view to changing to LED when...

I appreciated it on my first thread a few weeks ago and we looked seriously into the alternatives you suggested by going to several lighting suppliers (not sheds) and also looking at the kind of fitments in situ in various locations. We came to the conclusion that they weren’t for us. In your...

And you don't have the right to tell people what light to fit. I asked for constructive advice on a particular light fitting which we have thought long and hard about. The fact is we don't like the alternatives you suggested to us in previous posts, the light is awful, far too general...

I know some of you don’t like downlights and we have seriously looked at the alternatives, which were suggested in my previous posts, but we just don’t like the general light they give off, we do however like the cool white light from the MR16 50 watt bulbs with a 45 degree angle...

At least that is a possibility, a remote one I grant you, but still a possibility!

I agree! Maybe LEDs will be better than the CFLs in the future? This is really getting to be a nightmare, all we want to do is have the same colour/brightness/beam angle as the 50watt MR16s in a low energy bulb.

Yes it is the Hamilton one, is it a good system?

Okay... but the MR16s we are used to do exactly what we want and I thought the GU10s were the mains equivalent. So if we exclude GU10 and MR16 fittings what others can give a 40 to 50 degree angle of light suitable for using cool white bulbs equal to the MR16 50 watt? We would also like to...

I saw the 9 watt version (3x3 watt) and it was very impressive but as you say, not cheap at around £30.