Bathroom light - GU10, TP24 or G9?? what is best?

Kirri

Due to an unfortunate incident I now need to buy a new bathroom light fitting and am very confused... I have an interior bathroom so very dark with no natural light and need something at least zone 2 rated.

The light that broke was a fitting with GU10 35W x 4 bulbs which has been a nice bright light. But the rubber rings round the bulbs, to make them damp proof, perished. Do most bathroom spotlights have these?

I think the traditional round type lights will be too dull? I need to see well enough to put make up on and I don't want the bathroom looking dark..

I'm confused with the new options of G9 bulbs (I've read they blow all the time? but are they worse than GU10's?). Most seem to have glass shades on each bulb, are these easy to get on and off without breaking?

Anyone got a TP24 fitting, are they bright, do they last as well as claimed?

I've read that some light fittings have very difficult to replace bulbs where you have to take a screwdriver to the shades? I need something easy that I can change myself fairly easily.

Would appreciate any recommendations or comments as to each type from anyone who has got any of these fittings

savemoney

I have a bathroom like that has 3 tp24 11w bulbs in it. Yes its bright but takes 30secs to reach full bright. Had mine for almost 3 years now and still on original bulbs they look like gu5.3 but with spiral lo energy bulb. I was going to get led's but they dont use much less only advantage is they reach full brightness. The tp24 bulbs arent all that cheap around £5 though and not was easy to source other than tp24 site or amazon/ebay maybe

This is our bathroom light bathroom is medium size bathroom

http://www2.tp24.com/home/index.php/lisbon-3-spot-2113.html

Kirri

Interesting, didn't realise the bulbs were that expensive or hard to get hold of, happy to order bulbs online but sometimes I just want to nip out to get one on the high st. How do you change the bulb on those, do you have to unscrew the shades?? One fitting I saw with those bulbs had 4 bulbs so don't mind the slow warm up as long as it's bright when it gets going.

savemoney

On mine I have to remove 3 metal prongs which hold the glass shade in place. The bulbs just screw in like a gu10 bulb like said I never replaced mine yet just when I take them out to clean once in a blue moon

paulmapp8306

You should be using an ELV lighting system in that bathroom (24v max). Most bathroom lighting is a 12v system.

I have 12v spots in my bathroom - currently 24w ones and there as bright as the 35w halogens in my hallway. You can also fit 5w LED 12v spots which are as bright (in Leumens) as a 40-50w halogen spot, and are very energy efficient. There a bit priceyer to buy but the lifespan is long as well.

Im talking REALLY as bright - not as per the advertising. Wattage means nothing - and no light can be directly compared (ie one 35w type light may not be as bright as a differnt type also rated at 35w) - what matter is the Leumens rating, and to a lesser degree the degree of spread (the more the better).

So - MR16 bults/lighting system is what you really want - either using 35w halogends, 24w energy efficient halogens (NOT traditional energy efficient bulbs as they take time to come up to brightness) or 5w LED bulbs.

Something like this:

http://ledlightingmarket.co.uk/led-spotlights/led-spotlights-warm-white-5w-12v

Or this:

http://ledlightingmarket.co.uk/led-spotlights/led-spotlights-warm-white-5w-12v