fibre optic star lights

[ruaribedford]

Doing up my sons bedroom and bought a star light kit. It has 200 glass tubes that need to be poked through plasterboard ceiling,I will need to plaster the ceiling.
Can anyone suggest a way of protecting all the glass tubes.

 

[dan86]

read that3 times, and still can't quite picture it. do you have a pic you could post?

 

[AndrewMgan1976]

Do it after the ceiling is plastered, would be my advice

 

[ruaribedford]

Would if i could I have about 150mm clearance in ceiling void was going to try it from where I've put downlighters possibly just seeing if anyone else has come up against this

 

[Fast&Rough]

There fitted to a finished ceiling ,what size of hole you drilling for them

 

[ruaribedford]

Dan86 it is 200x 2mtr length of fibre optic cables that attach to a led light box

 

[ruaribedford]

1mm hole for each individual cable

 

[worzol99]

1mm hole for each individual cable

sorry mate, but this is simple just do it

 

[keniff]

200 holes Blimey! Get tony Montana in there - say hello to my little friend lol

 

[monkeyelectric]

Billy done this on diy sos a little while back, looked really cool

 

[JD6400]

Try not to crowd them together , i did the first attempt and ended up redoing them again .

 

[keniff]

I almost want some in my room!

 

[JD6400]

If you put them on a cheap ceiling fan remote controller from one of the sheds , you can not only alter the speed of the colour changing / twinkling disk but also dim the light down as well .
I put this one in my daughters room about six years ago and then got a locall artist to do the galaxy / sky .

 

[ruaribedford]

Will take a picture once done

 

[Toonlad]

I had a similar job a few yrs ago. Stud ceiling going up in a receprtion to a old peoples home and 4 of these were put in. only a 100mm gap between boards and old ceiling.The difference was it painted before it went up then holes added and fibers brought through. then tape jointed once back on ceiling and rubbed down on joints and painted over joints. worked well.

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

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Try not to crowd them together , i did the first attempt and ended up redoing them again .

These look so cool!

 

[JD6400]

Thanks , they were a over order on a job we had .

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Haha nice one, only ever seen these on posts on the forum must take a fair bit of time working out the patterns then drilling 1mm holes. I like the Tony Montana idea