Electrical — Lighting
Power-hungry halogens, spotlights that have failed, light that has turned yellow or a model no longer made: in most cases the replacement goes into the existing hole. One still has to find the right diameter, and check what supplies them.
Aim
Keep the existing cut-outs
Saving
A 50 W halogen becomes 5 W in LED
Area
Paris 6th, 7th, 14th, 15th, 16th
Four cases, and what lies behind each one.
Twelve halogen spotlights mean 600 watts in the ceiling; the same in LED, around sixty. The circuit breathes, the room no longer heats up, and the bill genuinely falls.
The cut-out diameter, not that of the spotlight: it decides whether the replacement can be made without touching the ceiling. When the size is no longer catalogued, adapter rings exist.
Many faults come from the original transformer, still sitting above the ceiling and incompatible with the new lamps. It is removed, not worked around.
Almost always an old dimmer that cannot drive LEDs. Either the dimmer is changed, or spotlights designed for it are chosen.
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If the holes were badly placed in the first place, new spotlights will not correct the lighting. I will tell you frankly: sometimes two well-placed additional points are better than a new set in the wrong places.
Five arrondissements — the Left Bank, and the 16th just across the river — covered neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Each arrondissement has its own page, as does each neighbourhood.
Paris 6th Luxembourg · Rue de Rennes · Saint Sulpice · Mabillon · Raspail · Notre Dame des Champs · Odéon · Montparnasse · Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Paris 7th Champ-de-Mars · La Tour-Maubourg · Saint-François-Xavier · Rue du Bac · Saint-Germain · Solférino · Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin · Invalides · Ecole Militaire · Gros Caillou
Paris 14th Brune · Didot · Montsouris · Denfert Rochereau · Mouton Duvernet · Plaisance · Pernety · Montparnasse · Alésia
Paris 15th Necker · Saint Lambert · Vaugirard · Croix Nivert · Lecourbe · Convention · Commerce · Javel · Beaugrenelle · Grenelle
Paris 16th Trocadéro · Passy · Auteuil · La Muette · Victor Hugo · Porte Dauphine · Chaillot · Ranelagh · Exelmans · Porte de Saint-Cloud
Beyond these five arrondissements: elsewhere in Paris and the Île-de-France, depending on the project.
Tell me about the situation, with a photo if you have one. I reply the same day.