Changing Spot lights (Halogen to Led) quote

doraappa

Hello
We are planning to change 4 spotlights including fixtures and bulb (from halogen to LED) in our bathroom. I am buying the fixtures and bulbs (IP65) myself.

I asked an electrician to give a quote (for his time) just for installing and got a quote of £100 for 4 spotlights. Is it a good deal?

MisterP123

If it's all above board, declared, covering his insurances, travel, PPE, tools (any overheads as a company) then I don't think it's a complete rip-off.

As a general rule, I don't do work on the side, but I know plenty of people who do and they typically charge £25 to change a light fitting, and that's "off the books." A spot light is usually a lot less work than a fitting so should be less.

I will do favours for close family and very close friends, a box of lager as gratitude will usually suffice.

Niv

doraappa wrote: »

Hello
We are planning to change 4 spotlights including fixtures and bulb (from halogen to LED) in our bathroom. I am buying the fixtures and bulbs (IP65) myself.

I asked an electrician to give a quote (for his time) just for installing and got a quote of £100 for 4 spotlights. Is it a good deal?

Just a question - why cant you just change the bulbs? I had a number of halogens in the house I recently moved to and just switched the bulbs to led's, no problems.

27cool

I changed about 25 halogen bulbs for leds. No different to replacing a faulty halogen.

Grenage

Some you can change; and some you can't; I think it depends on the driver. I replaced our halogens and their existing drivers with these:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/robus-fire-rated-fixed-led-downlight-ip65-white-8w/5309g

£100 sounds pretty reasonable.

27cool

I was bit surprised that I only needed to change one transformer. All the rest seem quite happy to run off the original transformers. (MR16 connectors)

qsk

27cool wrote: »

I was bit surprised that I only needed to change one transformer. All the rest seem quite happy to run off the original transformers. (MR16 connectors)

You are lucky. In my case, only half work when changing to LED. All transformers are of the same brand, same batch, and were installed the same time. It really puzzles me.

ic

If the existing bulbs are GU10 then even easier as they'll be mains powered 50W or 35W halogens - so no transformer to swap.