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Lighting

A complete guide on how to plan and choose lighting for your home. Learn about energy efficiency, lighting regulations, daylighting techniques, LEDs and more.

Sawtooth roofs

This traditional daylighting method is mostly used in industrial buildings, but is now making a comeback in homes. Sawtooth roofs are making a resurgence in...

Clerestory windows

Traditionally narrow bands of windows across the tops of buildings, but now seems to include any 'higher-than-average' window. Clerestory windows allow daylight in without compromising...
Performance considerations for lighting

Performance considerations for lighting

Not all lighting is equal - and nor is it designed to serve the same practical purpose, or provide the same 'feel'. Read about...
Globe age and lumen depreciation

Globe age and lumen depreciation

Find out how different types of globes deteriorate over time, and what effect that has on the quality of they light they produce. When...
Luminous efficacy

Luminous efficacy

Luminous efficacy determines how much light you get for the power you use - and there are huge differences between globe types.     Luminous efficacy differs...
Warm up times for light globes

Warm-up times

Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in particular may require a certain amount of time to reach their full brightness.   CFLs in particular are prone to...
A light tube

Light tubes

Similar to skylights, these tubes bring subtly daylight into your house and are easily disguised as light fittings.   Light tubes are like a skylight, but...
Light switch

How to clean light switches

Cleaning light switches is not difficult, and is perfectly safe provided that you do it the right way.   Turn electricity off at the mains before...
LED downlight globe

Light emitting diode (LED) light globes

LED globes, or 'solid state lighting' is fast becoming the lighting of choice thanks to its amazing efficiency and long life.     Some LED globes can...
Light globe types

Light globe types

Different types of globes offer different advantages in different situations. Choosing the wrong type can easily cost you much more in the long run. The...
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