Ikea lights

[the pict]

At a job this week I had been and looked at the week before, a handfull of faults mostly lighting," can you change those two lights fittings as well ?" quick look in the box and "yes no problem " I said, what a odd fitting not UK standard at all you either use a cup hook or a cable tie type thing through the ceiling mount after scewing a holder to the ceiling not difficult just odd, with the usual Ikea hyroglyphic instruction leaflet, just a heads up guys and all is not as it seems at first look
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[Plonker 3]

Ikea lights should be banned full stop, never had a easy one to fit, they are all bloody fiddly horrible things to fit.

 

[the pict]

I was lucky as there was no rose to contend with the pendant drop was somewhere in the ceiling space on both, but I can see one hellava job otherwise

 

[sparkey58]

At a job this week I had been and looked at the week before, a handfull of faults mostly lighting," can you change those two lights fittings as well ?" quick look in the box and "yes no problem " I said, what a odd fitting not UK standard at all you either use a cup hook or a cable tie type thing through the ceiling mount after scewing a holder to the ceiling not difficult just odd, with the usual Ikea hyroglyphic instruction leaflet, just a heads up guys and all is not as it seems at first look
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agree! ikea fittings utter crap...got cought like that last week, in the end i left the rose in place, chopped off the ikea fitting, wired into the rose, and luckily the ikea decorative cover just went over the old rose and i secured that with a small tie rap on the flex...bit of a bodge but it was either that or moving the fitting to one side to get a fixing and then the customer having to repair and repaint the ceiling. why they dont supply a hookplate with normal 2" centres and cover retainer is beyond me....of course its price...cheap crap!
its the same with the kitchens...they are good, but no service space behind...really got caught with one of them [allways ask now if its ikea going in] 1st fixed as normal, chased down to below w/top then all serface wiring behind in the service gap...then had a phonecall cables in the way..1st time i had seen a ikea kitchen could not beleive it the wiring has to be chased in all the way to the floor! as flat backed cabinets.
took a hit on that one...cables which were all plastered in now were too short to do that, so the chippy battend off the units by 2 " [as the plumber had the same problem] and we split the extra costs for deeper worktops...but rather that, than rewire the whole bloody kitchen!

 

[the pict]

Jeez Oh what a nightmare thanks for the heads up on the kitchens
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[Strima]

Again, cheers for the heads up on the Ikea kitchens, good to know.

 

[sedgy34]

At a job this week I had been and looked at the week before, a handfull of faults mostly lighting," can you change those two lights fittings as well ?" quick look in the box and "yes no problem " I said, what a odd fitting not UK standard at all you either use a cup hook or a cable tie type thing through the ceiling mount after scewing a holder to the ceiling not difficult just odd, with the usual Ikea hyroglyphic instruction leaflet, just a heads up guys and all is not as it seems at first look
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you have to be swedish to figure them out i send sven goran erikson to fit them hes quick lol

 

[MarkieSparkie]

I have to agree with you guys. Ikea's design ethic appears to be is style over function.

 

[mogga]

some of their lights look fantastic when fitted and used appropriatly BUT not much good at retrospective fitting and very very footery

 

[Engineer54]

None of the overseas sourced lighting fittings will fit UK standard boxes etc!! It's not just those from IKEA. So if you want a light fitting to fit a standard flush conduit box etc, then you'll have to get a UK manufactured light fitting.

I have had the same problems with American installations, their back boxes are BIG and need a big cover plate rose to cover them. So in the main had to go with Yank or similar manufactured fittings...

 

[Fin170]

Lucky we take our feeds to the switches these days so when you get these style over sense light fittings going in you don't have to try and get 3 cables and 4 terminal blocks into a space as tight and wide as a ducks arse :detective:

 

[mayfair]

Thats what happens when there are EU standard sizes and the UK as usual goes off on its own....got to be bloody different.

None of the overseas sourced lighting fittings will fit UK standard boxes etc!! It's not just those from IKEA. So if you want a light fitting to fit a standard flush conduit box etc, then you'll have to get a UK manufactured light fitting.

I have had the same problems with American installations, their back boxes are BIG and need a big cover plate rose to cover them. So in the main had to go with Yank or similar manufactured fittings...

 

[Engineer54]

Lucky we take our feeds to the switches these days so when you get these style over sense light fittings going in you don't have to try and get 3 cables and 4 terminal blocks into a space as tight and wide as a ducks arse :detective:

Do WE?? You might!!!