Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation 1 Apr 17, 2011 10:23 am Are there holes in your ceiling insulation where downlights are? What about where LEDs are? Ceiling fans? What about between floor insulation? Re: Ceiling insulation and downlights/LEDs 2Apr 20, 2011 10:36 am blueblueblue Are there holes in your ceiling insulation where downlights are? What about where LEDs are? Ceiling fans? What about between floor insulation? Yes there are holes for the downlights, having insulation on top of a downlight WILL lead to a fire sooner or later. In fact most states regulate that downlights need a heat shield of some sort to keep insulation away. Modern heat shields are generally can type things, in older places it might have been a barrier that just held the insulation back. My place has the latter, these are a circular 'bag' opened at both ends that sits over the downright thus preventing the insulation covering the light. With ceiling fans the insulation can go over the top because the bits that get hot are under the ceiling line so heat is not an issue. Re: Ceiling insulation and downlights/LEDs 4May 15, 2011 10:42 am Hills Guy My understanding is that you dont need a barrier around LEDs or Flouro downlights because they dont generate the heat of halogens and their transformers. True LED's don't generate the same amount of heat, however think you will find that because the actual fitting (talking downlights here) is capable of having halogens fitted you would still need a heat shield. Re: Ceiling insulation and downlights/LEDs 5May 27, 2011 1:12 am I would have some form of barrier regardless - personal opinion You get what you pay for! Re: Ceiling insulation and downlights/LEDs 6Jun 09, 2011 6:21 pm Brought some LED downlights earlier this week and asked the wholesaler about heat sheilds. Apparently they are still 100% very much a requirement as LED lights can and do get very hot. Indeed if you have a look at them they either have very large heat sinks (the fins you see on most), or in the case of the Philips 12V ones I brought they have a cooling fan inside. Found the answer. The recommended distance is .... 1 5957 Unless the room is for storage then it's non compliant BCA V2 2019 S3 P3.8 You have 2 options 1. The builder deconstructs the section and rebuilds as per plan /… 7 10658 |