Garage Lighting - Wiring Advice

[barki]

Hi,

I’ve just moved into a new house, with an integral single garage. I’m planning to spruce it up a bit this summer to make it that bit cleaner and lighter for working in the winter. I’ll pretty much just be painting the ceiling, walls, and then smoothing and coating the floor before I fix in the work benches & storage I brought from my previous garage.

My question is about wiring the lighting;

It currently has a single bulb dangling from the centre through a plasterboard ceiling. It’s connected to the downstairs lighting ring on the consumer unit which is in the garage.

I’d like to replace this single light, with two say, 5’ or 6’ strip fluorescent tubes a few feet apart. Preferably without needing to pull up the floorboard in the room above which has a tiled floor. I haven’t checked (yet), but assuming that the circuit breaker on that ring can cope with the extra load, can I pull the rose on the existing light, and then just piggy back the wiring to the two strip lights, hiding the 1’ or so of cable with a neat bit of trunking screwed to the plasterboard?

I intend to use the higher frequency ballast lights as I use rotating power tools in their quite a bit.

Really grateful for any advice,

Cheers,

Tom

 

[ban-all-sheds]

That'll be fine. You don't even need the trunking unless you want it for aesthetics. If you do, and if the lights have 20mm knockouts in the sides or you can make 20mm holes, round conduit would look even neater still.

 

[barki]

Great, thanks v much

Tom