From the Desk of London’s Renovation Maven

From the Desk of London's Renovation Maven: The Legalities of Lighting


Lighting experts and London renovation professionals who work with lighting are naturally eager to boost the prominence of our work in the eyes of the public. We know that lighting is absolutely critical to "making a house into a home" and we crave amazing results for our clients that seriously enhance the excellence of their illuminated environments.


Over the past two decades, we have seen huge investments in lighting - especially in our high-end residential and commercial London renovation projects. However, politicians who like to meddle increasingly cause concern for the professional London renovation community! In recent years we have seen nonsensical policies like the EU's efforts to ban the tungsten filament bulb. Similarly, London renovation pros have been caught off-guard by bureaucrats who are just so confused about ultra-efficiency lights, or who think that LEDs will solve 100% of the world's energy issues (they won't, but they can certainly help.... in certain situations!).


From the Desk of London's Renovation Maven: Technical Lighting Terminology


Lawyers and politicians love to make up rules, and as far as this London renovation expert is concerned, they are mostly motivated by the right reasons. However, personally I am very disappointed that regulations such as Part L feature requirements for electricity usage that just don't make sense. Just the other day I was enjoying a working lunch with a fellow London renovation pro who pointed out that using "total install load" as the favoured currency could in some cases actually push the designer toward less energy-aware implementation choices! My colleague was even more shocked when I explained that in a recent London renovation project we almost had to make some very serious compromises in a lighting scheme just to meet new requirements for low-load electrical schemes. (Fortunately my team of clever lighting hotshots saved the day by coming up with a nifty solution just in the nick of time!)