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They never cease to amaze me but I do try to please...most of the timeCustomers heh? You can’t live with them and they keep changing their minds!
Yes we've got one too and I feel the same really but then I thought you have a light inside your oven so maybe it's possible.Unless its a very big fireplace and / or chimney I would be telling that its a very bad idea ...........
We have a wood burner and the heat radiated off it is rather too high for anything electrical IMHO
Yes we've got one too and I feel the same really but then I thought you have a light inside your oven so maybe it's possible.
Yes haven't really seen anything convincing, thought someone may have had the same request. I've fitted lights in a mantle piece before that came with the lights as a kit, inset into the faux beam but I suppose while that area gets warm it doesn't get red hot. They were g9 or g4 capsule like you'd fit in an under unit light before the LED ones came in.I'm guessing you've done a google search for heat resistant lights, cables etc .....
Thankyou for lookingI had a quick look on the site this morning when you first posted. The only thread I could find was from quite a while ago... 3 posts, nothing of note in it.
I saw that on there as well. It's all a bit macho on there for me, they all try and out clever each other and usually make some pretty daft suggestions whilst trying to look clever. Had a similar customer once who was arguing that I had to bond his sink and he was a member of the institute of electrical engineers so I went and got the regs book and he backed down and admitted he knew nothing about domestic. A bit off topic but he was alright really.I'm sure there are ways round it, like carefully crafting chimneys and sinking the lights into the side of the chimney so the heat pulls cool air from low down up over the lights to keep them coolish, but it's like where do you draw the line?
I had a look for kits and there's plenty of fireplace lighting kits, but couldn't find anything really suitable.
Did find one thread, I think on the IET forums about someone who had done it with LV and catenary light fittings strung between two steel wires. They said the fittings and lamps (halogens not LEDs) handled it well, but the wires plastic coating failed (no surprise).
Ive fitted gu10 spotlights in corners of large fireplaces with no problems, brought wiring in from side into back of fitting, where ive had to run accross fireplace used fp with p clips, no problems.
Mountain of a mole hill springs to mind from some posts.
I have given you a disagree .... on the basis that you have made it out as if every body with a wood bummer can do this .... we can’t.... our fireplace simply isn’t big enough
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