..he suggesested a dimmer because he considered you would have too much light with 8
(but if you use dimmable, I do not know whether quality/colour of light remains good as you dim them)
I wouldn't ever bother with a diummer in a bathroom/wetroom, but that's me. If you plan your lighting right, you can have one bright mode, another for dim relaxing and say a little one (LED mirror) for your midnight pee.
Do you have a recommendation ? is that a combined bright shaving light and backlit ?
We got most our stuff from bath empire, now called soak.com. They used to have an Amazon outlet called ibath which was cheaper than direct.
Think it was like this mirror, but was around £100. If you go for decent warm white around 3000k temp the lights on these mirrors will be far too white/blue. As they're 5W/m strips with a small 15W power supply in the electrical cabinet behind the mirror, the strips can be changed for 5W/m warm white IP65 strip for about a tenner. Well worth it.
I only wet shave so have no need for a shaver socket. I would get some pictures, but am away with work for another week.
http://soak.com/700x500mm-orion-illuminated-led-mirror--switch-control_p31204663.htm
Alex, That's a crazy amount of lights, especially including that pointless middle one which serves no purpose at all. i'm guessing this is the old original fitting?
- Don't think of lighting as needing to be in grids, lines or any other kind of symmetrical shapes. Put them where they're needed to put the light in teh right place to create the right effect!
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1. Don't need one above the toilet, you'll have plenty of light from the other to see what you're doing. You don't need to light stools with loads of lumen
2. Don't put spots above the bath, as already said it'll be in your face and anything but relaxing. If you really want spots then push them into the corners and set the centre at 200-250mm off each wall. But ideally have something say on the ground behind the bath shining upwards, on a separate switch to light up the wall and make a nice feature. This depends if you're doing a full on refurb.
Search on google for 'behind bath uplight' for some ideas. You'll also see pics showing downlight spots really close the the wall behind creating a nice effect.
3. One over the sink is good, just get it central over the sink.
4. What is that other green thing below the sink? Towel rail? Probably don't need this if so.
5. The one off the boiler I'd put centrally to the boiler itself and back about 300mm from it. No need to put it centrally over the door if you have on in cubicle also.
6. If shower head is central between those in cubicle, then I'd probably leave x2, but put them 200/250mm from each end of the cubicle, then 450mm off the long wall. Then you'll have 1400-200-200=1m gap between them which is about right.
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- From the above I'd remove toilet and towel rail(?) and most definitely remove the central useless fitting.
- Push bath ones into the corner or switch them for uplights behind bath close to wall.
- So if you keep spots in bath corners then you'd have x6 total and then a backlit LED mirror.
- Switch the bath ones separately to the other 4 in the main room.
- Bathroom LED backlit mirror is controlled by the front touch switch which toggles backlight LEDs and demister pad.
- Ensure the spots are all IP65 minimum. ECOLED Zep1 spots are fantastic things and although cost more, you'll never have to change them and will have great quality light from them.
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