Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design Re: Builder installed downlights that are too dim 13Mar 12, 2020 11:56 am I bought a light meter and measured. The kitchen, which is the most problematic area is only getting 37 lumens on a bench with high cupboards, and 144 lumens on island bench. Below the 160 for normal room and below 240 for kitchens. The house we're living in now gets 134 for bench and 173 for island, and is just bright enough. We would turn on dining lights normally to get satisfactory illumination. We've had a lot of back-and-forth with the builder on other cost disputes, so I've let this dispute go and held firm on the others. It's a real blow though - I'm estimating it'll be $2,000 to replace roughly half the downlights across the two townhouses we're building. Thanks for your help Norfolk - much appreciated. The unit normally clips into a metal plate screwed to the wall, either plate is not flush, or unit not hooked in and could be hanging from the pipes partly, either might… 2 15989 It will be neat but you won't have much freeboard. At least they are not weep holes. Are you in a high intensity rainfall region? The regulatory slope is only required… 3 8452 Firstly, if your house is still under builder's warranty (10 years in Victoria) you should have no need to crawl into roof space but let the builder handle it, unless you… 3 5732 |