RE: Fire Protection Hoods?

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, you can make your own hoods, in fact many over on the Selfbuild forum
have done just that, normally out of PB, or Fermacell off-cuts.  I recall
that terracotta pots are also a popular option, but could be wrong.

I think GU10 project the heat forwards, GZ10 (far less popular) project
backwards, so you're right, not much heat should go into the void.

Pete

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From: Adrian [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 January 2006 09:58
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Fire Protection Hoods?


so where would be a source of these hoods or could i just make a box out of
pink plasterboard to put above my downlighters (house built in 1950's,
above
lounge roof is wooden floor of bedrooms) - i also though most GU10 lights
project heat down (so theres not that much heat coming out the top of them)

Ade


--------- Original Message --------
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Fire Protection Hoods?
Date: 04/01/06 09:39

>
> As others have said, it really does depend on the BCO, regardless of
what
> the regs say.  I've got upwards of 80 downlighters and 20-odd speakers
(as
> you know!) in my ceilings, though the BCO was happy enough that
because
the
> ceilings are 10mm Fermacell, and there's 50mm of foil-backed Rockwool
> stuffed in there (for the UFH) that no hoods would be required.  He
was
only
> worried about the fire-resistance, not acoustic.
>
> Pete
>
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>
> From: Rob Mouser [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 January 2006 21:11
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Fire Protection Hoods?
>
>
> Is it a requirement to fit fire protection hoods to all ceiling
mounted
> down-lighters and speakers these days?
>
>
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>


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