Infloor optic lights???????

sethsgran

Hi has anyone any experience of these? When we do the bathroom we (well me really) are thinking of having lights around the bath in the floor tiles. My husband is an experienced electrician, but now in the office pen pushing etc, and is more than compitent at doing the job but we don't know anything about them really. We have a son who works in the field of gadgets and another has a degree in electronics engineering so I reckon between the 3 of them and my bargain hunting we can come up with some ideas I'm sure !! Any suggestions please, only polite ones LOL

Doozergirl

Well, I own two sets of optic fibre starlights. And we just haven't been able to put them into two houses already because they're so finicky. Ours have something like 250 fibres and the plan was to put them into ceilings but in both of the bathrooms we've tried to do it to, there just hasn't been enough head height.

The plan has also been to remove a chimney breast and resize two rooms, putting them into one side of the stud and then studding the other side so it's sandwiched. Result of that is that we can't remove the chimney breast!

So that's three planned locations that we can't put it in. I had actually forgotten again that we had them and I'm thinking that if we put mosaic on the walls in the bathroom we can actually feed them through. But how you actually grout the things in evenly is another matter altogether!

But they are gorgeous when you see them in situ, sao one day the £400 price tag will be justified (it's been three years, they're probably cheaper now :rolleyes:)

sethsgran

Sounds like you have a lot of fun to come when you use them LOL

Doozergirl

sethsgran wrote: »

Sounds like you have a lot of fun to come when you use them LOL

I'm all excited again now that I forgot I had them! If your husband has more perseverance than mine then you'll get them in eventually!

sethsgran

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm all excited again now that I forgot I had them! If your husband has more perseverance than mine then you'll get them in eventually!

Now thats a thought, ah well have waited over 20yrs for him to agree to doing it so don't watch this space. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

aliasojo

Some ideas here....http://www.starceiling.co.uk/projects.html

I thought the coving was quite good but I'd space them further apart and my preference would just be for static white and not changing colours.

sethsgran

aliasojo that is a fantastic site thank you for that

Atelier

sethsgran wrote: »

Hi has anyone any experience of these? When we do the bathroom we (well me really) are thinking of having lights around the bath in the floor tiles. My husband is an experienced electrician, but now in the office pen pushing etc, and is more than compitent at doing the job but we don't know anything about them really. We have a son who works in the field of gadgets and another has a degree in electronics engineering so I reckon between the 3 of them and my bargain hunting we can come up with some ideas I'm sure !! Any suggestions please, only polite ones LOL

Have you thought why you want such lights in the bathroom? The floor lights are usually for defining a zone in low lighting (driveways, stairs, decking, kitchen plinths) whereas if you want to lie back in the bath and relax then you will want them visible whilst lying on your back.

I never really looked into floor lighting but I saw a bathroom that was coved and had optic fibres visible through it and that looked very nice. Also because the light source was mounted out of the bathroom then meeting electrical regulations was not a problem which is the benefit of fibre optics and wet areas. These are still expensive as DoozerGirl said but you could get cheap sets from www.dealextreme.com

I personally wanted colour phasing so went down the LED route and bought some custom car electronics from www.litewave.com and mounted them above the kitchen cabinets. You can also mount them behind objects to give a backlit effect (website has lots of inspiration)


HTH

brig001

We did this with decking LEDs and the light it gives is nice for relaxing in the bath. Probably easier to mount in the bath panel than the floor too.

sethsgran

brig thats the look I am looking for. Thank you