Electrician has installed non replaceable LED lights in rental property

[whataboutbob]

Just had a total re wire and the electrician has installed lights which I now realise are LED ( good) but non replaceable ( not so good). One in bathroom and one in kitchen. It will likely be £50 to replace when they fail. I have had one of these before and they do not always last the many years which the retailers assure us they do. This is probably a daft question but can one get a similar light with LED bulb which is easily accessed and changed? Thanks in advance

Are you sure you can’t get to the bulb? I have one similar but it’s more like a bendy tube inside.

Are you saying that it’s a completely sealed unit?

We have a similar one and the cover unscrews and unclips so we can access the bulb to change it, ask your electricians advice

No, unfortunately it’s in a different city so I can’t post a pic of the inside, but having seen a similar one it’s wired in so while you can open the unit once inside its not something the lay person can replace.

I think that if the landlord has done this then it becomes the landlord's problem if/when it fails. As a LL I would expect the tenant to replace LED light bulbs that are the usual bayonet or ES screw fit, but not a whole light fitting.

Absolutely filka and I feel I’d be a hostage to fortune so I’m thinking I’d better ask the electrician to change them now to easily replaceable. TBH I’m annoyed he’s installed these. Can’t help thinking he’s done it to create future income stream for himself.

Is it this one OP? I just went looking for my light on Screwfix and found this. It has great reviews so maybe it won’t be that bad?

If it is it has a 3 year guarantee if that helps.

www.screwfix.com/p/lap-amazon-led-bathroom-ceiling-light-white-1200lm-16w/10959

It looks something like this inside- downloaded from internet. Not something the lay person should try to deal with.

Thanks Deux. If it actually lasts 3 years that’s good, although activating the guarantee at a distance could be tricky.

That seems to have a starter, I think it's a regular fluorescent tube, sometimes called a circline.

You found the picture here:
davidjb.com/blog/2014/07/project-green-house-1-led-replacement-lighting-for-circular-fluorescent-tubes/

In this blog, he changes the fluorescent one (on the left) to an LED version

We used to have one of these, the tube can be gently released from the metal spring clips and the power plug just pulled out. Not a big deal. And a fluorescent tube should last for ages.

there are a couple of not-identical-but-comparable lights. I think they're suitable for a bathroom.

Wickes and a Phillips. I always get the sort you can put an ordinary (or a candle) lightbulb in (no low-voltage needing transgormer, no fluorescent starter or choke). There is a big one and a small one. Lots of others.

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I think you need to look for lamps that say "bulb not supplied"

There are also Drum lights, which are less elegant, more for a porch.

But you need to browse the shop of the website because it's not obvious if they are permanent or replaceable.

Yes, that’s the website! Maybe I misunderstood, I thought that was the non replaceable LED one. I’ve decided to let the non replaceable ones stay, but if they die before 4-5 years are up I will get them changed to replaceable.

@PigletJohn thank you for posting. I have also found it’s hard to work out from the website whether or not the bulbs are replaceable and I wonder if that is deliberate. .