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I am looking for some buying advise.

I wish to change all the existing incandescent lamp fittings in my house to LEDs.

Each of the bedrooms will have one central, largish, ceiling LED fitting, simple design, round or square.

Two bedrooms are large, 13 x 15ft, then the smaller bedroom, which will become an office is 10 x 9 ft.

Buying LEDs isn't the issue, I have looked online and will settle either on 24 or 36W fittings but will that be bright enough for the large bedrooms or will I need to double up.

I note most of the lamp fittings I have viewed, ( 24 -36W ), boast 20,000 hours which apparently is the equivalent to 11 years at 5 hours a day.

OK for bedrooms I guess but I'm thinking of the smaller bedroom-come office, that light will be in constant use, so looking for 24W +, 50 – 60000 Hrs, does such a fitting exist? I had a good look, couldn't find anything.

The fittings I viewed via eBay, Amazon and such likes, pretty cheap and with the adage ringing in my ears, " pay peanuts,--- " but they all appear to be around the same price, same quality, same spec", what should I be looking at when buying, I'm thinking about quality of drivers, any fire safety considerations?

Advise would be appreciated
 
the 2 large bedrooms will need the equivalent of 200watts each, comes down to about 30watts in LED terms. personally I'd fit 2 dimmable lights , each 24watt, fed by a double varilight dimmer. as for the office. 1 fitting should suffice. i would consider this style of fitting:
https://www.screwflix..com/p/sylvania-starteco-led-ceiling-light-white-24w-2050lm/950kj
 
If you're concerned about the life of the fittings, you might want to consider buying fittings with replaceable lamps.
 

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