I've finally got the pub to get around to ordering some new lamps to replace all the blown ones around the pub... We don't need as many as I had originally thought because I found a hidden cache... But where this replaces is a bit of a mystery... From looking at the spots in the roof the are a combination of 50W 38 deg beam, 20W 38 deg... and 20W 24 deg lamps... The cache is all 20W 12 degree. So where should they go?
What doesn't help is that the locations of the lights would have been worked out about 3 years ago and I bet the people who've replaced them as they've blown won't have cared what went back so long as it fitted!
I don't really care either to be honest but how is anyone in a hurry meant to maintain the architect's vision if he's singled out (I guess) 3 of about 20 fixtures to be uniquely lamped?
No need!
Seems more likely that landlords over the years have bought the wrong things and just put in whatever.
Posted by: Chris on April 24, 2006 8:16 AMThat's a possibility but there's too many (or there was) of all the types of (unused) lamps floating around. Unless the landlords randomly ordered a new box of 20 lamps everytime a few lights went blew, forgetting they already had a cupboard full - which I suppose isn't beyond the realms of possibility...
Yeah, that sounds likely. Though knowing architects they probably designed the interior lighting to use a different type of bulb to create "mood lighting". Then the contractor who fitted it out decided to reduce it to three types to make it viable and then the office manager only ordered one type. This happens to me a lot, can you tell?
Posted by: Russ on April 24, 2006 10:34 PM