Garage Lighting Solution Suggestions Needed

tweedbean

tweedbean

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Currently working on improving our little garage as its used to store my track/weekend fun car. It started off life like this:

Garage before shots by James Baker, on Flickr

I have painted the walls white to brighten it up, I will soon be boarding the ceiling and also painting that white and will be putting plastic tiles down on the floor:

Untitled by James Baker, on Flickr

I will also be fitting some kitchen units at the back for storage rather than open shelves.



With this in mind the currently lighting solution is a single strip/batten light in the centre of the garage that doesnt give off a great deal of light. Its ok but I want it to be super bright in there. There is a single switch at each of the garage to turn the lights on and off.

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Any suggestions, I was thinking to keep it relatively cheap, would it be possible to just buy two more of the same batten lights and daisy chain those to the existing wiring so it all works off one switch and stick one either end to fill in those gaps?
 
Led tubes have come down in price.

If you want really bright you can get led spots / flood lights that give off an incredible amount of light.

Might be useful to add a bit of directional light rather than everything being top down.
 
Skillmister said:
LED strips
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This sort of thing?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-weatherproof-led-batten-27w-2560lm-5ft/4891g

MonkeyMan said:
Led tubes have come down in price.

If you want really bright you can get led spots / flood lights that give off an incredible amount of light.

Might be useful to add a bit of directional light rather than everything being top down.
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I was also thinking of additional lighting in and around the kitchen units that will be at the far end as well.
 
Get some JCC Skypacks - I swapped regular fluro tubes (2x2) in our double garage with two 5ft Skypack Plus - 10,000 lumens per unit (JC71708). So much brighter. :cool:
 
I bought 2 of these 40w panels a year ago and this is the light output in a double garage. After a years use i would recommend them although due to positioning i ideally want some more lighting directly over the work bench. The panels are located in the same orientations if you were to put 2 cars inside. They replaced a single pendant fitting (Wtf)

https://www.lightrabbit.co.uk/40w-ultra-slim-led-panel-light-1195-x-295mm.html

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Interesting thread as i'm not totally happy with the lighting in my garage:

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Probably looks better than it actually is as it was a bright day and I had one of the roller shutters open.

I currently have 4 x 5ft battens with a total of 8 x 58W tubes, which are supposed to be 5200 lumens each. Similar to tweedbean I have white walls to maximise reflectivity and clearly need something for underside lighting for working on the car.
 
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