Do You Have Downlights or Bayonet in Your Bedrooms?

TurkishDelight on 19/05/2017 - 03:12

New house/old house owners-

Do You Have Downlights or Bayonet in Your Bedrooms?

Poll Options

  • 15
    Downlights
  • 22
    Bayonet
Home & Garden

Comments

  • Nugs on 19/05/2017 - 06:32
    +1

    neither - fan mounted T3

    http://www.mirabella.com.au/products/globes/halogen/linear/e…

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  • poboy on 19/05/2017 - 07:23
    +1

    Go a general light. You only need one. And it has a better beam angle. Just put it on a cord hanging down and add a shade.

    Downlights look great in common areas. And as they don't hang down, they don't clutter the room. These factors don't come into play on a bedroom.

  • Euphemistic on 19/05/2017 - 07:50
    +1

    Kids rooms have fan light plus led down lights. Highly recommend a fan for cooling in summer, can't have the downlights on due to flickering shadow. Fan light is a bit dull, downlights for when the fan isn't on, or you want more light.
    Main bedroom has oyster style lights and a fan without s light as the oyster lights are far enough away the shadow flickering isn't an issue.

  • [Deactivated] on 19/05/2017 - 07:55
    +2

    Candles

  • CyberMurning on 19/05/2017 - 07:58
    +1

    I'm annoyed, we have bayonets at level 2 but screw types at level 1.

    • John Kimble on 19/05/2017 - 09:21

      I have a mix in a small apartment!

      Have you considered adapters/converters?

      • CyberMurning on 19/05/2017 - 09:56
        +1

        People said it's not safe.
        People who build houses with mix bulb are idiot

        • John Kimble on 19/05/2017 - 09:58

          Really? I have had one for a while… Isn't it just like travel adapters for different power points?

          What's not safe about it? Now I'm a bit worried.

        • airzone on 19/05/2017 - 10:21

          I have felt your pain..

        • CyberMurning on 19/05/2017 - 11:36

          @John Kimble I guess its not safe because possibilities of electric fault then causing fire? Not sure about the technical part of that.

        • CyberMurning on 19/05/2017 - 11:38

          @airzone: thanks I should have just cancelled the house purchasing contract. Regretted to the max.

      • poboy on 19/05/2017 - 10:06

        You are seriously recommending an adaptor for a general light?

        I'm kind of speechless now.

  • oscargamer on 19/05/2017 - 08:01

    Pendants

  • inherentchoice on 19/05/2017 - 08:26
    +3

    Edison Screw. Basically bayonet style anyway.

  • fantombloo on 19/05/2017 - 08:35
    +1

    Unless you need to flood the room with light (in a bedroom?) wall mounted sconces can provide very comfortable light at eye level rather than shining on the top of your head,

  • jason101 on 19/05/2017 - 08:41

    I voted for downlights in our current home due to dusting/cleaning. Anyone remember those "trendy" birdsnest light fittings popular a few years ago - we had them in our previous bedroom and they required a leaf blower to blast the dust out of them (and all over everything else).

    • airzone on 19/05/2017 - 10:20
      +1

      It would probably have been prudent to take the shade outside first, or use a vacuum cleaner instead.. lol

    • TurkishDelight on 19/05/2017 - 13:36

      LOL

  • airzone on 19/05/2017 - 10:19

    Fan mounted lights.

  • narcoleptic-haze on 19/05/2017 - 10:27
    +1

    Both .. sort of. I have these ridiculous lights which are like large sized screw in normal light bulbs, but are recessed into the ceiling so they are next to impossible to unscrew when they blow.

  • lupiter on 19/05/2017 - 11:45
    +1

    I've got one oyster light in the bedroom, which is fine for the room size. Mix of down lights and oysters elsewhere.

    • TurkishDelight on 19/05/2017 - 13:39

      Isn't oyster light just the cover with bayonet inside? (correct me if I am wrong)

      • lupiter on 21/05/2017 - 10:23

        Not in my case, we have those circular fluro tubes in ours.

        • TurkishDelight on 21/05/2017 - 14:55

          I see.

        • Euphemistic on 22/05/2017 - 07:46

          @TurkishDelight: oyster lights describe the cover style/shape. Some have bayonet, some have flouro tubes, some have LEDs. we have LED style in the lounge/dining areas.

  • tsunamisurfer on 19/05/2017 - 11:48
    +2

    I have both the downlights are for illumination, the bayonets are for the Mormans and Jehovah's Witnesses.

  • Sheila Dealer on 19/05/2017 - 12:48

    Newish apartment with 50 plus downlights.

    • TurkishDelight on 19/05/2017 - 13:40
      +1

      Over loaded.

    • Euphemistic on 19/05/2017 - 13:41

      all individually switched?

      • Sheila Dealer on 19/05/2017 - 15:05

        Usually 4 to 6 per switch. Soon as we moved in I changed the majority of globes over to LEDs.

  • GangGang on 23/05/2017 - 22:25

    Built a new house that came with the bayonet fittings. It costed to much to get the builders to install downright. After we moved in we got a electrician to put led down lights. So much better.

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