As a specialist distributor in recessed lighting, our expert sales team can help you choose the right down lights for your home or business. We've put together this useful guide to help you along your journey... How To Choose The Right Downlights For You You’ve either got a brand new room or you’re replacing a single light fixture with recessed downlights. This gives you a fresh canvas and the option to install anything you want. But what if you opted for brighter LED downlights with wider beam angles of 60 degrees instead of the traditional 40? This combination spreads the light out further allowing you to install fewer downlights and potentially saving you a few hundred pounds on installation costs. Our extensive product range of ceiling downlights includes many variations of styles and types such as fixed, adjustable, trim-less (plaster-in), bathroom rated and many more. The next generation of downlights that are gradually taking over are smart downlights which can be controlled from a smart phone. Budget, downlights can range vastly in price. Investing in LED downlights is a bit like buying a car. If you're only doing low mileage on them and the operating hours are around 3 hours per day then the economy series would be suitable such as the E5 or E8 downlights from the Aurora Enlite range. Scottish Highlands, areas which we class as zone 1 are post codes: AB30-38, AB44-56, FK17-99, G83, IV1-28, IV30-32, IV33-39, IV52-54, IV63, KW1-14, PA21-33, PA34-40, PH18-26, PH30, PH31-41, PH49-50

Existing lounge Installation You're limited to the existing hole sizes and distances between each downlight. Ideally you just want something that matches the existing setup so you don’t have to re-plaster, make the holes bigger or spend too much unnecessary time, money or effort on it. Many of our ceiling spotlights come with an LED light source – offering improved energy efficiency, a longer lifespan and a wide choice of colour temperatures compared with traditional bulbs. And LED retrofit lamps are also available for our non-LED spotlights. Expert advice, with our FAQ section& experienced sales team who are available to an answer technical questionsIf you’ve got a smaller area to illuminate, like a 4x4 metre room for example, then a wider 60 degree beam wouldn’t work as well. A more intense 40 degree beam would be better. The reason for this is that the wider beams of light will be absorbed by your walls. Whether you’re buying integrated LED or replaceable GU10 downlights, buy branded LEDs, in life you get what you pay for. For that little bit extra you'll get a whole lot more. Branded LEDs give you more lumens (brightness), longer lifetimes and longer, more reliable guarantees. This is even apparent when you compare manufacturers like Collingwood Lighting who have their own premium and economy brands. Unbranded LEDs would fall a few divisions below the Collingwood economy brand known as the H2 Lite. View more: Living room downlights and other lounge lighting fixtures Kitchen Downlight Installation

Bathroom lighting can make all of the difference when it comes to the aesthetics of the room. Due to the nature of a bathroom, with a lot of water an steam expected, it can be common for people to opt for a very basic lighting solution as a safety precaution. However, what people don't know is that bathroom downlights are actually the perfect marriage between safety and aesthetics. Downlights have undoubtedly come a very long way since their inception, which is earlier than 1940. Although nobody knows who invented the recessed downlight, it’s certainly a great invention and something that is used in almost every home and business around the world. These types of wiring connectors are even more advantageous with integrated LED downlights, because if they do eventually ever fail you can simply disconnect them from the ceiling. Then reconnect a new one without having to rewire or get an electrician involved - just like changing a GU10 lamp. 5 Reasons to Buy from Downlights.co.uk

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Not only can these type of bathroom lights be used to illuminate the whole room, you can also have lights in specific areas such as sink alcoves and above the shower to offer extra illumination to these zones. If your kitchen is 9 metres by 9 metres you’re going to lose a lot of that area with cupboards and worktops. Depending on the heights of these, they may need to be considered as part of walls especially if the cupboards go right to the ceiling. This reduces the floor spaces and the area of the room that needs to be illuminated. To fit recessed downlights, holes will have to be cut into the ceiling for the spotlight to fit into. They are spring loaded which keeps them in place securely once installed. The lights are also normally wired in via a loop system or connected to a junction box to be controlled by a 1 or 2-gang switch, or a dimmer switch. Many of the higher priced, premium downlights have longer life expectancies of around 70,000, that’s a lifetime of up to 68 years if you only use them for 3 hours per day! Premium rated downlights also have longer guarantee periods, these are the key reasons why some downlights cost considerably more than others - you get what you pay for. 3 Typical Rooms Where You Can Install Downlights Old, energy hungry reflector style lights with R95, R80 and R63 E27 downlights with big clunky brass trims are now a thing of the past. In more recent years the now outlawed 50 watt halogen has been replaced by modern, sleek, energy efficient LED alternatives. The future of downlighting technology is becoming brighter but physically smaller.