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What sort of lights must I, can I or should I have? Are they required
by the regulations to be of a specific IP rating or anything, or
designated as bathroom lights, or what? Is there any more specific
requirement for any lights which are actually above the bath?
Six downlighters is probably what we'll go for, the ones at my
mother-in-laws house are very satisfactory in the bathroom.


The lights should marked as being able to use in a bathroom and are normally
sealed dichroic low voltage systems. I think B&Q are doing them very cheap
at the moment, or so I am told, with a gang of three arrangement.

We have some of the B&Q ones, 3 lamps on one transformer. If one lamp of
the 3 blows, you must change it immediately, otherwise the other 2 lamps
will also blow within a few minutes. Presumably there is no regulation
on the transformer.

They give a nice light quality in the bathroom, if you like that sort of
thing, I know some people who hate downlighters.
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Tim Mitchell