Summary: Learn how to install worktop strip lights and fit mains-supplied strip lighting.
Unlike traditional tungsten filament lamps, fluorescent lighting uses particle movement to illuminate the coating on the tube. This type of lighting is energy-saving and produces more light per watt than tungsten light bulbs without generating heat. Fluorescent tubes are available in various sizes and shapes, including bulb shapes for lamps.
This is a non-notifiable project providing that CE-approved kits are used and that the strip light is not installed in a bathroom or wet area.
You can mount strip lights under a kitchen unit to illuminate a worktop or provide atmospheric under-lighting without wiring the lights into the main circuit by simply plugging them in to a nearby socket.
Drill pilot holes for the base-plates and fix to the units with the fixings supplied.
You can hide the wiring with a strip of decorative moulding fixed to the bottom of the units.
This is a notifiable project requiring Building Control approval if installation is located in a kitchen, bathroom or other special location or does not use CE-approved fittings.
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