Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design Re: Whole House Lighting Purchases 8Mar 29, 2009 8:17 pm Hi Southies! We bought all of our lights from the one shop. Downlights, fan/lights, pendants and exteriors. The shop is called "lightstyle" and is in the hudson centre at Castle Hill. We were helped out by Irene (i thnk) and were given a very good price for everything. The best part of it was that they guy who works there on the weekend is an electrician and is installing our lights very cheaply. Gotta love it. I couldn't fault their service oh and they have some very funky lights! (electrician cost for eg is $15 per d/light) Re: Whole House Lighting Purchases 9Mar 29, 2009 8:32 pm wow. this has been on my mind today. DH would like to buy ones that are diy batten type fix lights in a sort of oyster style I think where as I'd prefer more flush to the ceiling. of course the ones i prefer mean a sparkie has to install. I think we'll have to live with bare globes for a while and then decide. I can imagine a mix and since we will need to get a sparky out to add nice garage wall lights then that will be the time to do any other electrical light fittings. If you got 30% discount for buying all together it sounds like it might be worthwhile us waiting and doing the same. Re: Whole House Lighting Purchases 10Mar 29, 2009 8:48 pm We chose lights a diverse set of light from a number of manufacturers totalling around 4K. Most retailers don't stock them all. We got 90% of our lights from one place and the rest from another. We almost went with an online company. Our local retailer ended up matching but not beating the price. In the end we though we might as well support local business and I guess you can form a relationship with them. However, when we went back to get another fan light they didn't offer us the same price (even though they promised to over the phone). They mumbled something about it being impossible to price match five months and some 'mistake' with the original quote. So my feeling is a bit mixed particularly about the whole experience. I suspect you can't beat online prices by much though. I am sure it costs a fortune in energy bills to run a lighting outlet. We got our builder to use his 2nd fix electrician to install but that was more for convenience sake. It probably would be cheaper to use your own contractors. Building Standards; Getting It Right! 1. optional, you can but normally just use the earth from the main switch board 2. should be enough but the distance determines voltage drop - sparky should work it… 1 28812 I have a really long hallway which is 1100mm W x 11500mm L I would appreciate if anyone can give suggestions to light it up with Linear LED lights that goes from wall to… 0 8814 What? It's a lighting question, the control joint is only needed at 12m centres, a bulkhead or change of direction will suffice as a 'break' in the ceiling, just make… 8 8572 |