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Kitchen Lights
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I replaced my very old fashioned fluorescent strip light with spot lights but they are driving me mad - I always seem to be in my own shadow.
Can anyone suggest an alternative?
Can anyone suggest an alternative?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We replaced our strip light with these spot lights a number of years ago as they seemed to be the fashion at the time. After many adjustments to the spots to stop from being in the shade in certain areas of the kitchen and changing many blown bulbs we have now gone back to the strip light. This gives better light in all areas and will probably be cheaper to run.
Flush downlights preferably fitted with LED lamps are very good for kitchens. You just need enough of them to avoid shadows.
They are a bit of a faff to fit. Depending on how many, and where they're sited, The usual thing is to work from the kitchen rather than go upstairs and dig up a load of floorboards. If access is possible from above, then it's simpler. If not, then there will be a few access holes in the kitchen ceiling to get the cabling through the ceiling joists.
They are a bit of a faff to fit. Depending on how many, and where they're sited, The usual thing is to work from the kitchen rather than go upstairs and dig up a load of floorboards. If access is possible from above, then it's simpler. If not, then there will be a few access holes in the kitchen ceiling to get the cabling through the ceiling joists.