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Is it possible to install spotlights in a first floor apartment when there is another

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  • 12-04-2020 12:17am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭


    Apartment above you. Thanks!


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Yes.

    There are surface mounted down lighters available.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    2011 wrote: »
    Yes.

    There are surface mounted down lighters available.

    Thank you! Do these look the same or are they more bulky? What would be the approximate cost to get them fitted in a small hallway and also in a 5*9 metre living space?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,745 ✭✭✭meercat


    Depending on how the ceiling is done. Sometimes they are battened which will allow a shallow led recessed spotlight to be installed.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Thank you! Do these look the same or are they more bulky?

    Not always. There is a "pancake type" that are very thin.

    As meercat suggests it would be best to start by measuring the space available above the ceiling.
    What would be the approximate cost to get them fitted in a small hallway and also in a 5*9 metre living space?

    That depends on many factors. Anything from €80 per point up and a minimum of €300 for the entire job. If cables are difficult to route it could be a lot more. The electrician may have to damage quite a lot of plaster to wire this. Sometimes you can be lucky and cables are easier to route.


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