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Default Ceiling holes for recessed lighting cut too big!

On 11 May, 15:50, timfel wrote:
Our electrician has accidentally cut all the ceiling holes for some
halogen downlights about 6mm too big!

The lights now pass through the holes instead of just covering them.

Does anybody have a solution (other than repositioning the lights
somewhere else and filling the holes)?

It strikes me that this must have happened many times before, so
perhaps somebody has invented some sort of hole reducer that you can
press into the hole or something...

Any ideas gratefully received!

--
timfel


You can get reducers from lighting shops that adapt larger holes for
oldstyle R63 spots to the smaller ones needed for halogens.

Alternatively, get some adjustable downlights - they tend to be a few
mm bigger than fixed ones.

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