Can I use these downlight LEDs for my living room?

cranford

I use one of these
https://www.firstchoicelighting.co.uk/30w-antique-brass-floor-lamp-with-double-rotary-dimmer-switch.html
to light a room similar in size to yours. But its only 30 watts unlike the 90 watts that you intend to install. Also warm white and with a dimmer.

Waterlily24

We've got 15 LED downlighters in our kitchen and I don't find them bright enough to work in. I wouldn't have them in the living room though.

I do like bright lights everywhere, my hubby prefers dimmer ones. I would hate it if my lounge wasn't bright enough to do my cross stitching etc.

We have 6 wall lights and two ceiling lights in our lounge.

phoebe1989seb

It does very much depend on individual taste and requirements.

Like Waterlily24, we have 15 LED downlighters in our kitchen (as well as two pendant lights operated separately over the table) and find it is often too bright, lol! The room is approximately 8m x 5m, narrowing to 3.5m.

OTOH, our current main living room (Winter snug) is lit mainly by four floor/table lamps. There are two (small, pendant) ceiling lights which we only switch on when first entering the room to see to switch the lamps on. It is a welcoming, cosy room which is what we set out to achieve. We only use it in the evening and often choose to only have one or two lamps on.

When finished our second living room will be for Summer/daytime use. That will have one pendant ceiling light over my work table (for writing/sewing), two floor lamps and one table lamp.

DH and I hate really bright living rooms and almost elected to have no ceiling lights in the snug......

Mutton_Geoff

I wouldn't use cool white in a living area. I also wouldn't use non dimmable. I also wouldn't use GU10 type LED lamps as the space to fit the driver is tiny, hence they are not as reliable as one's that require a separate and better quality driver.


Fire rating is only a recommendation in single family domestic properties although it is better to fit fire rated stuff when you have altered the integrity of the ceiling by cutting holes in it.


I prefer to install better warning systems by way of a wired smoke detection system with sensors in more rooms than the standard UK fit of a battery/mains thing in the hall/landing.
Finally, I used LED Hut products for a few years but had more than my share of failures of them recently so it's put me off buying any more.

Ectophile

You need fire-rated lights, or fire hoods, if you are breaching a fire compartment by drilling holes in the ceiling.


Most 2-storey houses don't have fire compartments.


Most blocks of flats will have fire compartments. 3-storey townhouses, and houses with loft conversions, may have as well. Having fire-rated doors in stairwells is a good sign that the building has been divided into separate fire compartments.

Waterlily24

We've got a false ceiling in our kitchen with them in.