LED Lighting & Downlight Installation Central Coast

Lighting has a huge impact on how your home looks and feels. I provide professional LED lighting installation across the Central Coast, helping homeowners create brighter, more modern spaces while reducing energy costs.Whether you’re upgrading old lights, installing new downlights, or planning lighting as part of a renovation, I’ll make sure everything is installed safely, neatly, and designed to suit your home. LED Savings Calculator (embed) Old halogen downlights are quietly one of the most expensive things in your house.

Drag the slider to how many you've got and see what switching to LED could save you. How many downlights in your home? − 12downlights + You could save about $591 a year, power bill plus replacement globes Halogen running cost$578/yr LED running cost$93/yr 🔁 Halogens burn out roughly every 8 months, so you'd be buying about 18 globes a year, another $105 on top, plus the trips up the ladder. Over 10 years that's $5,908 back in your pocket.

It's not just the bill Halogen downlights make light by getting very hot, most of the power they draw comes out as heat, not light. Fire and Rescue NSW warns they can reach up to 370°C, and that if ceiling insulation, dust or debris ends up touching a fitting, it can smoulder or catch alight. Possums and rats nesting in a warm roof cavity are a common way that happens without anyone noticing.

LEDs run at around 40, 60°C, cool enough to touch, and the modern IC-rated ones are built so insulation can safely sit against them. Halogen Up to 370°C Needs clearance from insulation ~2,000 hours About 8 months at 8 hrs a day LED Around 40, 60°C IC-rated fittings sit safely under insulation 25,000+ hours Roughly 8 years at the same usage Worth a look if you notice: flickering downlights, brown or discoloured patches on the ceiling around a fitting, or globes that keep blowing. Turn the affected lights off and get them checked.

Homes built before around 2008 are the ones most worth checking, installation rules were looser then. If you're not sure what's up in your ceiling, I'll have a look and tell you straight. How this is worked out Replacing 50W halogen downlights with 8W LED 8 hours of use per day Halogen globes last about 2,000 hours before they blow NSW electricity rate and globe price, both adjustable below Electricity rate (c/kWh) Cost of a halogen globe ($) The default of 33c/kWh is the Ausgrid reference rate covering the Central Coast, check your latest bill for your exact rate, it's usually on the first page.