Christian McArdle wrote:
Part L insists you install a certain proportion of low energy fittings.
These are specifically designed to look as ugly as possible, not be
compatible with standard lamp shades and require expensive, hideous,
difficult to obtain tubes. Rather than install these, has anyone considered
using some sort of current limiting devices that would enable a maximum of,
say, 25W (after initial 3 minute warm up) to be used with a standard bayonet
fitting, so that you can use nice looking, cheap, easy to obtain low energy
light bulbs?

I had a word with my local buildings inspector about this when wiring
an extension. Bascially, between the lines, he was saying forget it
as he knew as well as you and I that there aren't any suitable fitting
available yet.

For a full house set up it's possible because you can use flourescent
lighting in the kitchen and quite civilised looking low energy
fittings in the bathroom and thus fulfil the proportion of low energy
fittings required.

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Chris Green )