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Re: It's a trap !

I often wonder how the person who bought our last house got on with the bathroom arrangement. It was the time when Halogen downlighters were all the rage, and we had five 50W GZ10 (not GU10!) downlighters in our bathroom as my wife wanted it bright enough to do makeup by and was fed up with the usual arrangement of a 60W bulb in a closed fitting in the middle of the ceiling.

I didn't like the idea of 250W of lighting coming on every time you used the bathroom, particularly if you were up in the middle of the night - and didn't want to be blinded, so whereas there was a single pull-cord inside the bathroom, there was a separate switch outside the bathroom in series to the power supply for three of the five lights. If the outside switch was "on", the pull-cord switched all five lights on. If the outside switch was "off", only the light over the loo and the one over the sink would work.

Perfectly logical to us, but did seem to confuse a few visitors :-)

M.