Cost of fitting new lights?

Hugbubble

Hey

Just wondered if anyone could give a rough idea for the cost of a handyman or electrician to fit new lights? (Replacing tatty white ceiling rose with new pendent lights).

Cheers

latecomer

If its a simple like for like replacement i.e both plastic then it shouldn't be much at all. I'd say no more than £20 a light including parts.

shane42

£45 for one fitting, or about £55 for 3 fittings

Hugbubble

latecomer wrote: »

If its a simple like for like replacement i.e both plastic then it shouldn't be much at all. I'd say no more than £20 a light including parts.

The ceiling roses are currently standard plastic with horrid shades but I want to replace with pendent lights which are a (I quote from the Heals website) "generous globe of opal glass is suspended from a silver/grey ceiling cup via a slender steel wire". Will this cause additional problems?

Also, a handy friend of mine pointed out that if the new lights are heavy they may need additional support, although the Heals website makes no mention of this as a possibility. Any thoughts?

Cheers

jrrowleyws

Shouldnt be too difficult to fit. Extra support means that atleast one of the screws will need to go into a joist, light fittings are ususally near a joist for this reason and so will be no problem for a sparky to fit it. TBH, I'd always screw into a joist anyway.

shane42

Hugbubble wrote: »

The ceiling roses are currently standard plastic with horrid shades but I want to replace with pendent lights which are a (I quote from the Heals website) "generous globe of opal glass is suspended from a silver/grey ceiling cup via a slender steel wire". Will this cause additional problems?

Also, a handy friend of mine pointed out that if the new lights are heavy they may need additional support, although the Heals website makes no mention of this as a possibility. Any thoughts?

Cheers

why would they , dont believe the shops lit or sales person they sell lights not fit them, they are clueless,

ormus

i would charge 50 quid for the first one and say 10/20 quid each for any others.