How To Install Soffit Lights Uk

• #iii

I call back it's almost likely concrete it projects from the firm and is bedded into the brickwork with mortar it looks like a couple of long paving slabs have been attached to the firm but y'all've got me thinking now might need a quick run up a ladder to double check

• #4

Get information technology checked out get-go.

• #six

Go it checked out commencement.

So in the meantime bold information technology's concrete and not asbestos (which I will get checked, cause f**k that with the risks and fines involved) whatever ideas?

• #8

Then if its physical, how exactly exercise you plan to fit the lights?

Screws and rawlplugs? That's why I'thou afterwards surface mounted downlights...

• #ix

I for i have never seen a concrete soffit. Only I have seen an estate full of asbestos ones.

• #10

I guarantee it is asbestos containing textile.

• #12

Another one here who thinks it's probably asbestos.

Be interested to know though. I've never heard of concrete soffits

• #13

Sounds like Asbestos cement board to me may only comprise v% asbestos just still 5% too much.

• #14

lol, I was thinking of some torso cut concrete similar the Hatton gardens task. ho well.

• #15

If the house was built before 2000 it's best to assume whatever cement board contains the dreaded, until proven otherwise. Just my opinion .

• #16

I accept seen AIB used as a soffit lath it'southward definitely not that but to be honest it could be an ACM from the basis it certainly looks similar concrete because it looks like a concrete paving slab (ii inches thick)there are lots of houses round my style with a very similar looking slab type thing

• #18

Then this is the house in question seems like concrete to me, listen I'm getting it checked anyway only to be certain but accept a look...

• #19

And here are similar vintage properties on a neighbouring street

• #twenty

Is it a prefab?

That question was to your offset pic . They do not wait like it on second post.

• #21

I thought I was going mad thinking it was concrete with all the replies I'k still going to become it tested earlier I get all gung ho with the SDS I like both of those fittings just equally at that place is no overhang I retrieve I might demand something a fiddling more depression profile... have you ever installed downlights on something similar?

• #22

Non that I'm enlightened of mate think they were built around the xxx's 40's and with proper bricks and mortar

• #23

I've seen concrete gutters before, but physical soffits are a new one on me.

• #24

I've seen concrete gutters before, just physical soffits are a new one on me.

I've grew upwards round here and never idea nearly it till now but it definitely looks like concrete might have been old finlock blazon gutters the council just chopped and left

Some of the building methods up here from back in the day were crazy e'er tried running a cablevision in a semi-supporting wall

Terminal edited: May 17, 2022

• #25

Not that I'one thousand aware of mate think they were built around the thirty'due south twoscore's and with proper bricks and mortar

Yes I saw that in your second pics post..
My Granny lived in a similar type of building on the other side of the Clyde from yous.

• #26

Is information technology a prefab?

That question was to your kickoff moving picture . They exercise not look like information technology on 2d mail.

It could well be a prefab as a lot of the houses round this way were built to alloy in with the older ones except our lot they stand up out like sore thumbs but in a proficient way

• #27

Yes I saw that in your second pics post..
My Granny lived in a similar blazon of edifice on the other side of the Clyde from you.

Clydebank? Dumbarton?

• #29

I might take misunderstood, but the soffit lath is commonly light weight, I assume that's because it'due south overhanging. A 50mm thick physical slab 30cm wide (say) would counterbalance a ton past the fourth dimension you lot went round the house, surely?
Edit - merely seen the pics

• #30

Near the hospital? Washed quite a bit of work over there too nice wee jaunt

• #31

I might take misunderstood, but the soffit board is normally light weight, I assume that'south because it'southward overhanging. A 50mm thick concrete slab 30cm broad (say) would counterbalance a ton by the fourth dimension y'all went round the house, surely?
Edit - just seen the pics

Past looking at it I do assume it weighs a ton information technology doesn't expect like a board at all
I'll be taking it easy with the SDS in instance it cracks and falls taking me with it

• #32

I idea I was going mad thinking it was concrete with all the replies I'yard notwithstanding going to become it tested earlier I go all gung ho with the SDS I similar both of those fittings but as there is no overhang I think I might need something a piffling more low contour... have you lot ever installed downlights on something like?

Not me personally, only believe it or not I watched someone bore a recess into the soffit so go along to channel the cable in (unprotected, but who cares up at that place?). His arguement was that his recess was 150mm deep for the 80mm halogen and the heat would dissipate beyond the soffit. He may have been correct because they were still in that location in Winchester last I passed (many years ago). Only I never did become an answer regarding his boring of holes into a soffit every 90cm weakening it's structure. It was only 40cm broad as I call up.

• #33

Near the hospital? Washed quite a chip of work over at that place as well dainty wee jaunt

When I lived there the nearest hopital was the Vale, but yes.
I was Born in the house . Information technology was congenital but earlier WW11.

• #35

Non me personally, only believe it or not I watched someone diameter a recess into the soffit then continue to channel the cable in (unprotected, but who cares upwardly there?). His arguement was that his recess was 150mm deep for the 80mm halogen and the heat would misemploy across the soffit. He may have been right because they were however there in Winchester last I passed (many years ago). Only I never did go an respond regarding his boring of holes into a soffit every 90cm weakening it'due south structure. Information technology was but 40cm broad equally I call up.

I was at get-go thinking of coring holes and recessing led downlights but I didn't fancy the corer getting snagged above my caput and throwing me off the ladder or the soffit raining downwardly effectually me, not to mention the beak of replacing it/insurance merits

• #36

AAR! The ol' duplicate bug, it'll eat you from the inside out until you lot sit at that place all dark agape to hit that return key. Mwaaahahahah!

• #37

I was at commencement thinking of coring holes and recessing led downlights but I didn't fancy the corer getting snagged above my head and throwing me off the ladder or the soffit raining down around me, not to mention the bill of replacing it/insurance claim

It's non worth the adventure, seriously. Buildings that quondam are fragile and prone to throwing tantrums and falling apart. Don't risk information technology mate. Delight.

• #38

It's non worth the chance, seriously. Buildings that old are frail and prone to throwing tantrums and falling apart. Don't risk information technology mate. Please.

Don't worry that idea was booted out my caput near as presently every bit I idea of it. The customer has agreed to these fitted high up on the wall equally close to the soffit as possible but I really don't know if it's going to exist the await that either myself or the customer is subsequently...

• #39

I call up that's just a short concrete lintel

• #40

Tin I just ask, why does your customer wish to highlight the fact that they alive in a slightly undesirable house. I know everyman's abode is his castle, only its non like its a des res on the Sandbanks, is it

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