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  1. J

    How to best run cables between lower soffit and higher soffit?

    Hi folks, I have been out to quote for a soffit lighting job. I have done jobs like this many times but usually only installing lights in the top soffit and has always been easy enough to get cables into the loft. This customer would also like lights in her lower soffit. I have a few ideas on...
  2. M

    Venting bathroom extractor out of soffit

    Evening all, Installed many extractors, but this is a first for me. Customer wants the fan vented out through the soffit, with an inline extractor installed. Simple enough, until I looked at the gap going into the soffit. It’s too small to fit a standard 100mm flexi pipe through, and I’ve seen...
  3. W

    Soffit Lighting Recommendations and Question

    We are going to fit outdoor soffit lighting IP65 with top and bottom set controlled separately. Are there any light brands that are recommended and where would be the best place to purchase online? It’s a bit of a mine field with beam angle and wattage/brightness. Not sure which is the best...
  4. S

    Best soffit lighting

    Hi everyone, looking some advice on soffit lighting. I have narrowed it down to these two if anyone could give me any advice or help on which ones are better...
  5. OnlQQker

    DNO Cables Running Under Soffit Across Houses...

    Just wondering what your thoughts are about this before I renew the facias/soffits/guttering. Any help would be appreciated as it's my sons new house. I've attached some pics
  6. D

    Soffit lights

    Looking for electrician to install security camera 2 front and 2 back walls of house. 8 soffit downloghts front and 8 back side of house - wiring of and down light holes done by cladding company. 2 fans in kitchen. Holes done by cladding company. location ME8 postcode.
  7. J

    Soffit lighting ?

    What light fittings are people using for soffit lighting ? I have been using the integral evo fire ip65 and an integral lamp that i can get for around £8 per light. Soffit lighting seems to be really popular and i am doing more and more of them so just interested to see what other people are using
  8. H

    Soffit spotlight

    Hi all, I would like to fit 2 spotlights in the soffit board above garage door. Planning to come off the garage lighting circuit and feed them from either - - Existing feed to floodlight - could I simply come out of the junction box for the floodlight and connect to two spot lights with some...
  9. P

    UK Can i connect garden lights to soffit

    Hi all. I'm looking to put some of them golfball style string lights around my patio area. Is there any way of connecting them to my soffit lights. All the lights I can see are plug in ones. Thanks
  10. D

    Tried endlessly to fish a cable down a soffit, can it be ran along the fascia instead?

    As title suggests, I've tried and tried to get my cable rods down the soffit to run a cable from one spotlight to the next, can't get through because of support beams etc. in the way. I know it'd be ideal to house the cable inside the soffit but taking the fascia and soffit off would be a big...
  11. D

    Fit a downlight into soffit but wasn't wood!

    I drilled into a soffit to fit a downlight. The soffit wasn't wood, growing a bit concerned it's asbestos. Few questions: 1. If it's not wood, what other building material could it be? It's a thin, dry almost plasterboard like sheet. 2. If it were asbestos, would sticking the downlight in the...
  12. B

    Soffit lighting

    I have never installed downlights in a soffit before and have been asked to do it. New build house. Is it a case of drilling the holes in the soffit and fishing the cable into the loft or is there more to it ?
  13. multimick

    small soffit downlights

    I know i hate them as well,but need recommendations for preferably mains ones with 50mm ish cutout cheers. About 5 or 7 in total
  14. gazdkw82

    Angled soffit LED downlights

    Need to install some soffit lighting (downlights) into the soffit of a bungalow. The problem is soffit itself isn't 90 degree horizontal with the building, it's more light 45 degrees. Installing downlights into this would just create a small spot of light on wall. Does anyone have any...
  15. M

    I want Smart Soffit Lights.

    Hi I have outside lights in my soffit which is controlled via this timer you push the legs up of it to come on or off at which ever time you put in, I want to make this smarter to fit in to the whole smart home genre, I want to be able to control this on and off with either Smartthings or RF...
  16. MFS Electrical

    Soffit lights, only problem is soffit is concrete

    So was round giving a quote to install soffit lights on a house today no problem some nice IP rated downlights will do I thought, went round to see the job and to give a price and noticed the soffit is in fact made of concreteo_O anyone got any ideas of a fitting to use that won’t look daft? Saw...
  17. R

    Eyelid Lights Fitted Under Soffit

    Wondering if anyone has fitted eyelid type wall lights under soffits? I think I've only seen these wall mounted but I want to light up my double garage door, I want the light to point more out towards the drive than light up the door itself so wondered if this would work? Also there is a sensor...
  18. J

    soffit lights with no soffit

    A customer i have has just bought a new build by persimmon homes and the house is built with the soffit flush to the brickwork but the customer wants lighting round her house like i did with her old house so i was thinking these lights on to the soffit...
  19. SparkyChick

    Soffit Vent - Recommendations

    Hi all, Been asked to install an extractor fan in a bathroom and am looking to go down the soffit vent route. Having looked on-line, there are quite a few to choose from. Does anyone have any recommendations based on past experience? At the moment, my favourite is this:- Lambro Under Eave...
  20. D

    Solar powered soffit downlights

    hi folks, A regular customer of mine really wants soffit downlights on their outside soffits. Having had a look at access, there is no easy way to access the inside of the soffit - it's a new build. Can anyone recommend a decent solar powered option for this? Thanks

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