What alternatives exist in LED lighting for bathrooms?

In Gi Bath we want to give you some tips to illuminate your bathroom with LED products.

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1 What alternatives exist in LED lighting for bathrooms?

There are many factors that explain the change in trend, but LED lighting for bathrooms can be one of them: thanks to it, determining exactly what needs are required for this specific space, its image can be completely reformulated using elements and techniques of Design that until recently did not exist, or were not taken into account.

2 What can LED lighting achieve for bathrooms?

  • Reduce brightness to always have a natural vision of those who get in front of a mirror.
  • Change the image of the bathroom without reforms, just changing traditional lighting for its corresponding alternatives in LED.
  • Far from aesthetics, this change also involves betting on energy efficiency, helping in the inalienable objective of saving on the electricity bill.

3 A new vision with a LED bath mirror

The scheme of the most traditional bathrooms has long been cut by the same pattern: central light point on the ceiling and, almost always, varied lights on the main mirror. A usual choice when the catalog of bulbs. There are even models that have proximity detectors Among its characteristics, offering even more comfort and savings to the user, since they only illuminate when they approach to use it.

4 LED Downlight: The most versatile option

DownLights and LED tubes are the most recommended options for the general lighting of the bathroom, using -PORM strips as an accessory destined to accentuate specific points of the decoration. The former are especially suitable for decorative reasons, but also technicians: they offer an instant starting and are prepared to endure continuously turned off and lit. Cycles resistance is, therefore, an aspect that should not be lost sight of when you want to correctly illuminate the bathroom. Both LED Downlights As the tubes are more oriented to ceiling lighting. They should provide a soft light and be of sufficient light power to serve as a central point. Some 100 lux They would be adequate. In addition, thanks to their design, the Downlights focuses mimic the aesthetics of the ancient appliques so that the aesthetic change with respect to the ancient luminaires will be clearly better.

5 Caution with moisture and water

The sink areas or shower are especially lending to experiment with different lights. It usually looks for a uniform appearance, without shadows or flashes. But in these concrete areas, special precautions must be had for their proximity to the taps. For example, if they do not have the appropriate protection index, lights should not be installed at a height below 2.25 m. Below this level, you have to bet on lights with IP44 or even IP65 LED Downlight. Only thanks to them is how it is faced, without any problem and with resistance guarantee, water vapor generated during the use of bathroom and condensation. In addition to meeting the demands to be close to the water, these are LED models adapted especially for the change of old lhalogen uces or G24 lamps. For this, however, it is important that a buyer make sure that the diameter of the cut is the same and that they work for equivalent currents.

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