Down light housing replacement?

[PikeyPriest]

I moved in to a new house back in August and as we are decorating it's becoming more noticeable that the once white downlights are fairly yellowed. Does anyone know an easy way to clean/replace just this plastic housing? I've looked around but can only find complete sets to replace them (housing, wire and gu10 bulb as a set). Worst case, I may have to buy these sets, but it just seems wasteful and expensive.

Thanks

 

[HardwareGeek]

Basically the 'ring' you see in the ceiling is generally a fixed part of the downlight, depending on if you have fire rated or non fire rated its 99% of a non fire rated downlight with just 2 springs above holding it into the ceiling.

With some downlights the light fitting and the bezel are sold separately so you might be able to just get a new bezel but these aren't as common and you might have trouble to find the matching bezel etc

Just pull the ring out of the ceiling gently to avoid damage and you should be able to leave the lampholder in the ceiling or unclip it from the 'ring' and then just put a new 'ring' up if you dont want to get involved in electrics

Single white non firerated downlight £2.69

 

[Hobbsie]

a bit of cif/gif (cant remember what it is now lol) will bring it up good but tbh go and buy new they are peanuts now, if there is a room above the downlights then fire rated if not then non fire rated will be fine.

 

[Lumeycom]

a bit of cif/gif (cant remember what it is now lol) will bring it up good but tbh go and buy new they are peanuts now, if there is a room above the downlights then fire rated if not then non fire rated will be fine.

Yeh it doesnt matter that someone is asleep in the room above and fire could so easily spread through almost open holes in the ceiling below. Bad advice indeed.

Non fire rated is rarely fine.

Paragraph 7.4 of Part B of the building regs is a little ambigious but, in essence, says that if you make a hole whatever you put in it should have the same (as a minimum) fire resistance as whatever was there before. A 60mm hole with a gu10 lamp in it will not.

Paragraph 11.2 relates to fire stopping/sealing which is also relevant.

Also part P says that 'reasonable' provision should be made to protect persons from fire etc.

Also the wiring regs (131.3.2, yes I'm sad and happen to have the book here) states -

‘Persons, fixed equipment and fixed materials adjacent to electrical equipment
shall be protected against harmful effects of heat or thermal radiation emitted by
electrical equipment, particularly the following consequences:
(i) Combustion, ignition or degradation of materials
(ii) Risk of burns
(iii) Impairment of the safe function of installed equipment Electrical equipment
shall not present a fire hazard to adjacent materials’

While that doesnt explicitly ask for fire rated fittings it does lend itself to fire rated ones as they generally meet all of the above if installed sensibly

I could go on but there are SO many requirements to fit these and frankly and its common sense.