Recessed downlights, kitchen task lighting, statement pendants and garden schemes — designed around how you actually use the room, wired for long service, and certified on completion.
Design and installation of lighting circuits — from a single new pendant point to a whole-house scheme of layered general, task and accent lighting. Includes fitting the fixtures, dimming controls, drivers and switching, and issuing NICEIC certification on completion.
Homeowners refurbishing kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms; new-build owners fitting out from carcass; landlords updating tired lighting between tenancies; commercial clients specifying retail, office or hospitality lighting.
During a refurbishment (kitchen, bathroom, extension) is the ideal moment — chases and first-fix cabling are far less disruptive with plaster off. Also common as a standalone project when a room is overdue for an update or the existing fixtures have failed.
Cheap fixtures fail. Cheap drivers hum, flicker and cook out. Poor design leaves rooms with harsh central-pendant shadows or over-lit downlight grids. The right scheme — LEDs at the correct colour temperature, dimmed properly, layered for time of day — is a genuine upgrade to how the room feels every day.
The reason to book proper work now — instead of putting it off — comes down to what happens when you don't.
Standard downlights punched through a floor ceiling break the fire barrier — Building Regulations Part B non-compliance, potentially insurance-invalidating.
The £8 downlight from a DIY shed will fail within a year; the trade-grade equivalent will run for a decade. False economy on every count.
6500 K daylight LEDs in a living room feel like a supermarket. 2700 K warm-white in a kitchen looks jaundiced. Getting this right isn't decoration — it's design.
Trailing-edge dimmers with unbranded LEDs flicker at the bottom of the range or hum audibly across the room. Matching driver, dimmer and lamp is a skill.
We walk the room with you, discuss how it's used across the day, and sketch a layered plan — general, task and accent.
Fixture make and model, colour temperature, dimming spec and driver detail — no ambiguity about what you're paying for.
Cable routes, back boxes and driver locations installed during any renovation to minimise remedial work.
Fixtures fitted, dimmers matched, scenes set. Every fitting tested for insulation resistance and Zs before energising.
Minor Works or Installation Certificate issued, and we walk you through the switching and controls before we leave.
Every ceiling downlight is fire-rated to at least 30 minutes to preserve compartmentation and satisfy Part B.
Trade-grade fixtures from Aurora, Collingwood, JCC or Astro — five to seven year manufacturer warranties, not throwaway boxes.
Driver, dimmer and lamp matched as a system so scenes dim smoothly to 1% without flicker or buzz.
2700 K in living rooms and bedrooms, 3000 K in kitchens and bathrooms, higher only where a specific task demands it.
General, task and accent circuits switched separately — read on the sofa without the kitchen lit like a stage.
NICEIC certificate for the works, workmanship guarantee, and full manufacturer warranty passed to you.
Free written quote within 24 hours. Fully insured to £10m. Workmanship guaranteed.
Good lighting design changes how you experience a room without you being able to say exactly why. Bad lighting design you notice every time you walk in. The difference is in the details — beam angles, layering, colour temperature, and dimming.
Downlights are a tool, not a default. Where they're used, we specify fire-rated fixtures with 60° or 90° beam angles depending on ceiling height, spaced to give even wash without pooling, and driven by dimmable drivers matched to the switch. We avoid the '4x4 grid on the ceiling' look wherever possible in favour of task-and-accent layouts.
A proper kitchen scheme is three layers — general lighting from downlights or pendants, task lighting from under-cabinet strip over the worktop, and accent lighting inside glass cabinets or over an island feature. Each on a separate switch so you can light for prep, for dining, or for a coffee at 6 am without flooding the whole room.
Zone 1 and Zone 2 fittings must carry the correct IP rating (IP65 typically) and be fed from an RCD-protected circuit. Warm-white LED downlights over the vanity, an IP65-rated fitting inside the shower, and mirror lighting for actual usability. All to BS 7671 Section 701.
Warm 2700 K, dimmable, and layered — a central fixture for cleaning, lamp circuits switched from the door for evening, and wall lights or picture lights for atmosphere. Bedrooms almost always benefit from independently switched bedside pendants dimmed low.
IP-rated fixtures, low-voltage where practical, and photocell or smart-hub control so it comes on at dusk without you touching a switch. Uplights on trees, path markers, and downlights on soffits create depth that solar spike lights never will. See our garden electrics page for the wider outdoor package.
Anything else? Give us a call — we'll talk it through in plain English.
07886 780653Small jobs — an added pendant point or a set of six downlights — from around £250 including materials and certification. Whole-house schemes quoted individually after a design visit.
Either way — we can supply trade-grade fixtures at trade prices, or install fixtures you've bought. We'll advise on driver and dimmer compatibility if you're supplying.
Yes — LightwaveRF, Lutron, Hue and Loxone are all in our regular install list. See the smart home page for whole-home schemes.
Minor touch-in around the fitting — provided the ceiling is clear underneath. If we have to lift boards or drop a section of ceiling to route cable, we'll flag it at quote stage.
In any ceiling that separates habitable rooms (including upstairs/downstairs), yes — required by Building Regulations Part B. We fit fire-rated as standard on every ceiling job.
Yes — see our outdoor and garden electrics page. Anything from a single soffit spot to a full landscape scheme, IP-rated and RCD-protected.
Sometimes. Older leading-edge dimmers rarely work well with modern LEDs — we usually swap the switch as part of the job for a trailing-edge dimmer matched to the driver.
Trade-grade LED fixtures are rated at 30,000 to 50,000 hours — realistically ten years of typical domestic use. Manufacturer warranties are five to seven years.
Based in Crewe — covering every town within a 20-mile radius. Not sure if we cover you? Call and we'll tell you straight.
Free written quote within 24 hours. NICEIC-approved. Backed by our workmanship guarantee.
