Ip Rated Bathroom Lights
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Ip rated bathroom lights. All our bathroom lighting is ip44 rated or higher making them safe for bathrooms the bathroom is divided into zones 0 1 2 and 3 and bathroom light fittings are ip rated depending on where they are to be sited within the bathroom. Free delivery by amazon. Bathroom lighting zones regulations explained great care needs to be taken when choosing lighting for your bathroom as there are strict regulations regarding the type of lights you can use.
Ip rated as protected against solid objects over 12mm eg. It could cost around 300 extra for an ip rated downlight or 1000 to replace an led. All circuits in a bathroom should be protected by a 30ma rcd residual circuit device.
Sungny led ceiling light 18w 1500lm waterproof ip65 4000k natural white. For further details on bathroom zones and the ip ratings required please check out our frequently asked lighting questions which can be accessed from the home page. Bathroom lights must have higher ip ratings than lights you would use in the lounge dining room or bedrooms etc.
Zone 2 bathroom lights. It is also highly important to choose bathroom lighting that will provide you with good visibility as well helping to brighten your bathroom. Most bathroom light fittings are ip20 or above rated and depending on their ip rating they can be mounted in the different zones in the bathroom.
To fully understand bathroom zones you should first have. Get it sunday may 31. Although this is now common practice and is a requirement of part p of the building regulations it is worth double checking especially in older buildings.
Update to ip ratings in 20 march 2015 as a result of european standardisation amendment 1 of the 17th addition of the iee wiring regulations bs7671 came into effect in july 2011. Once you have found an ip rated light fitting it must now comply with the different bathroom zone areas. No water ingress permitted.