Hi my dining room is two rooms knocked into one. About 20ft by 10ft.
I recently had an electrician replace 6 rather ugly down-lights (R80 spots) with two pendants at each end, as I plan to rent the house at some point in the future, and this would be more practical and economical arrangement.
Anyway, The electricianshad to run new cables (spurs?) to the pendant locations, I was happy with the work but by mate said that he thinks the cable is too flush to the ceiling.
All access was from the celing in the dining room. They ran the cable under about wood struts (at right angles). At each point the cable bends down and then back up again.
At these points the gap between the bottom of the wire and the bottom of the ceiling is about 2mm , and in one case I think it is almost flush with the current ceiling.
Note that I am getting a plasterer to skim the ceiling flat in the near future, because it is currently a dated 'Artex' look, and I want to give it a modern look. The electrician was aware of this.
What do you think , should the cables have been recessed more?
I recently had an electrician replace 6 rather ugly down-lights (R80 spots) with two pendants at each end, as I plan to rent the house at some point in the future, and this would be more practical and economical arrangement.
Anyway, The electricianshad to run new cables (spurs?) to the pendant locations, I was happy with the work but by mate said that he thinks the cable is too flush to the ceiling.
All access was from the celing in the dining room. They ran the cable under about wood struts (at right angles). At each point the cable bends down and then back up again.
At these points the gap between the bottom of the wire and the bottom of the ceiling is about 2mm , and in one case I think it is almost flush with the current ceiling.
Note that I am getting a plasterer to skim the ceiling flat in the near future, because it is currently a dated 'Artex' look, and I want to give it a modern look. The electrician was aware of this.
What do you think , should the cables have been recessed more?