On Feb 7, 4:46*pm, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
On 07/02/2012 14:58, NT wrote:

On Feb 7, 9:00 am, Adrian *wrote:
HI Folks
A group of us are setting up a co-operative art& *crafts gallery / shop
out here in south-west Ireland.

We've pretty much decided on some premises - but they're going to need
some work to improve the lighting. Decent lighting's pretty important to
show off the items that are on sale. However, we're on a fairly tight
budget - not just for the capital items (light fittings etc) but also
for the ongoing running costs.

Premises currently have 2 double fluorescents (5ft or so?) in the larger
room (24ft x 10ft) and one double flouro in the smaller room (13ft x
8ft). There are also two recessed downlighters fitted with led spots -
but they don;t seem to contribute much light (if any!!)

Spotlights would be great, but we're concerned about installation&
running costs - and I've used led spots in the past to replace the
little 50w halogen spots on an exhibition stand and they are simply not
bright enough.

So - not wanting to start a 'holy war' on leds vs halogen - but what's
peoples experience on lighting such a retail outlet....

..my gut feel is more fluoro's - not pretty, but highly effective
and cheap to run...??

Thanks
Adrian

Reading the answers it looks like this lot could make a useful wiki
article. I suppose it would be for diy shopfitting, but not house
maintenance.

HI
Yes - it did seem quite straightforward and 'fluff-free'....
I'm sure they'd be happy to let you reproduce it if you asked them -
and, if you didn't, then they'd probably never know! g

A

Copyright issues can be avoided by rephrasing everything.


NT