Low energy lighting

[Rockomuir]

I am currently quoting for a flat(new install). The customer wants downlights throughout as he has some fire rated gu10 from a previous job. They are mains downlights so they would not conform with building regs with reference to the 25% that is required. If the 50w gu10 were replaced with led bulbs would that be okay to comply with the regs and if so what wattage?

 

[Liamsparks]

Led bulbs are good but very expensive... Why not just fit the smaller energy saving GU10's into the downlight in one room?

Sometimes you need to have a whole different downlight to accommodate the LE lamp but sometimes they fit ok. it's the standard GU10 fixing.

Worth going into your wholesaler and questioning tbh.

 

[Adam W]

Depends on LABC - some stipulate you have to be only able to fit low energy (ie CFL) lamps, which IMO sucks.
If you can just replace them with LED lamps (IMO way better) then any wattage should be ok - a 'direct' replacement for a 50W would only be about 7W of LED anyway.

 

[Rockomuir]

What wattage are the low energy gu10s?

 

[Adam W]

CFL are 7W or 11W, but IMO they're rubbish.
LEDs come in any flavour from around 1W to about 7W, different colours, colour temperatures, beam angles etc so there's more choice.

 

[truckster]

9W and 11w but as said before the fittings are deeper to accomodate them

 

[Rockomuir]

Cheers, will look into it