If someone asks you to install one of these avoid if you can.

[Dave OCD]

A hand made glass chandelier from Italy , cost unknown but not cheap. The customer brought this back from Bermuda in 3 cardboard boxes and we had to assemble then fit to the vaulted ceiling in a converted attic bedroom. I also had to find E12 Candle Lamps which nobody stocks. The picture doesn't really show the size and it must weigh 20kg+ . Had to use the size of ply shown to get decent fixings , a tricky job from start to finish.

 

[dmxtothemax]

I quite like the first light !

 

[richy3333]

A customer of mine moved into a new house and wanted the rooms fitted with fancy lights. Most of them required some assembly, but these were the worst. Took over an hour just hanging the loose bits.

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I'm glad you said that because I fitted 2 similar to this a while back and the customer moaned I was taking so long. Flipping wrapping and fidley bits!

 

[telectrix]

done a few , not as fancy, but i usually insist that customer fits all the bling after i've fitted the basic light and gone out for a smoke.

 

[Rpa07]

You think that's bad, I helped install this chandelier, £150k! Must have been 15m long at least through 4 floors down to basement level. Hung from threaded rod studs cast into a concrete reinforced ceiling! This is in sir Robert Walpole house opposite the Ritz hotel in London.

All the crystals were hung one by one by hand., made by Swarovski.

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If that house gets used for the next James Bond film I can see him sliding down those crystals to catch the bad guy - Bond, you see, doesn't know the difference between Swarovski and Poundland bling!

 

[p=iv]

Whatever you do, don't subcontract the job to Del Boy. He was a smashing success alright

 

[richard12]

And another very expensive very heavy glass one.

 

[static zap]

And another very expensive very heavy glass one.

..Has it got an IP rating , can I jet wash it clean ...
(not enough butlers about these days)

 

[richard12]

To be honest I think it looks awful, that is my personal opinion of course. Yes and what a nightmare to keep clean still if you can afford to buy it in the first place you can afford to have it cleaned once a week.

 

[Phil Thompson]

I remember my very first day on a trial for an apprenticeship, having to hold an antique chandelier whilst it was disconnected and undone from its anchoring, the whole time thinking to myself, I'm gonna drop this, my arms can't take anymore lol

Thankfully I didn't drop it, phew!!