Installing spotlights in bathroom

Replace your standard pendant light fittings with recessed spotlights. These come with fittings to take a range of bulbs , including low energy and LED. Or you could choose low-voltage LED spotlights which are a particularly safe and practical option in your kitchen or bathroom.

After checking for pipes or cables with a detector, drill a small through — just inside the circle. Use a holesaw to cut around the marked circle. If you want to replace your pendant ceiling light with recessed spotlights, start by installing the lights with the appropriate cables. So always pull any insulation material well clear of the fitting and fit specially designed heat diffusers to your down lighters.

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Replies: 2 Views: It uses low voltage and gets heated low. View Inscrok on Amazon. When you decided to add a comfortable light from strip lights into the bathroom, decide the spot where you desire to place it. It might be the water tub, shower wall, or ceiling. When you decided where to install it, you need to purchase your desired LED strip lights first. If you love to have extra features, go for a smart LED strip light.

When you have the LED strip lights and decided the spot where you desire to place your strip lights, the first step came into place. In most cases, you need to cut the LED strip into pieces.

Measure the exact length of which you need. You can use any measuring tape or rope for it. You might be stuck while cutting the LED strip. Before cutting, follow the instructions over the strip.

You will find the spots where you can safely cut the LED strip. Cut the strips only to the highlighted areas otherwise, it can damage the strip functionality.

We recommend using the wire cutter to cut the strip over the right spot. Measure the strip to the exact length you need, pick a wire cutter, and cut the LED strip from the highlighted spot.

After cutting the strip into the desired length, you can create a new connection over it. Squeeze these in so that the light can be pushed up into the hole that you have cut out. As the light slides into the hole, the wire catches will catch on the ceiling and force out the springs so that they push down on the upper side of the ceiling boards holding the light unit in place. There are a number of things to consider when selecting downlights. It used to be popular to use 12 V lights in kitchens and bathrooms because they offered a better light and also had the benefit of being lower voltage, however they need a transformer to step the voltage down which will get hot so needs to be ventilated.

With the advent of LED lights, there is no need to go for 12 volt lights as LEDs come in all the different light intensities and colours you could want and have dimmable versions, so there is no real benefit to using 12 Volt anymore. It is less complicated to simply stick with Volt. They also get hot so consideration needs to be given to ventilation.

They are a little more expensive, but well worth the extra cost. For us it is LEDs everytime. As we mentioned above, the ceiling is an important fire barrier to slow the spread of a fire to upper floors.

Peppering this with holes will not help, so you should fill these holes with fire rated lights and in many cases the regulations will ensure you have to — see more information in the Building Regulations Approved Document B all about fire safety.

You must consider the safety zones in bathroom where the lights are going to be fitted which you can find all about here as you will need to use IP rated lights in these zones. You need to ensure that you are using the right IP rated light in the zone you are planning to have the lights fitted.

There are acoustic rated downlights which you can consider using if there is a problem with noise from the floor above. Integrated downlights are lights where the blub is fitted inside them and cannot be removed — integrated. Because LED bulbs have such a long life it is considered that they will outlast the life of the lightitself, or at least provide sufficient life. With standard downlighters you can change the bulb as normal.

Which offer more flexibility should you need to, or if you want to change to a different tone light. The big danger is that if one light fails and you cannot get a matching replacement, if the model has been discontinued for example which might well happen in the long life of these lights , then you have to replace the whole lot if you want them to match. Fitting, replacing or adding downlighters to your ceiling is a job that can easily be done yourself. All project content written and produced by Mike Edwards , founder of DIY Doctor and industry expert in building technology.

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