Saturday, 30 June 2018

Plastering and new bedroom lights

The holes in the kitchen and pantry ceilings have been filled and sanded back once.  They will get a second coat and final sanding tomorrow.  This wasn’t a particularly long job so I moved onto replacing the three bedroom ceiling lights.  Jan had chosen two slightly different style of round LED lights at the Lighting Warehouse. 

I suspect the existing lights were installed when the house was built in 1984 and I don’t believe my parents ever changed them.  Actually they look quite ugly and dated.

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Replacing the existing lights wasn’t as simple as I had anticipated.  The wiring had been installed in a way that minimized the required amount of cable and whilst this is an acceptable method, it does result in the light fitting always having a “live” cable.  I prefer to use another method which uses slightly more cable but means the light fitting is “dead” when the switch is in the off position.

Anyway, after a couple of hours all three lights had been replaced.

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These LED light fittings have a function where you can obtain three different levels of brightness by repeatedly flicking the wall switch on and off.

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Jan is happy with the amount of light and the fittings only consume 15 Watts of electricity which is a significant reduction on the old fittings. 

Tomorrow I plan to do more of the modifications to the 4x4.  Hopefully the last modifications before the arrival of the trailer.

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