Making Your Home Energy Efficient with Smart Tech
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Smart lighting is one of the quickest and least disruptive ways to make your home more energy-efficient. Swapping out halogen or incandescent bulbs for LED lamps cuts down your lighting consumption dramatically, and adding smart control systems can reduce both your lighting's runtime and brightness levels without disrupting your comfort. Additionally, occupancy and motion sensors in hallways, bathrooms, and utility rooms switch the lights off automatically...
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How Smart Home Devices Can Save You Money
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Smart lighting can help homeowners cut their energy costs by combining efficient LEDs with intelligent control. The biggest benefit of smart lighting is that it replaces halogen or incandescent bulbs with smart LED lamps or dimmable drivers that use far less power to achieve the same amount of light. You can also schedule your smart lighting to align with your local sunrises and sunsets to prevent the lights from coming on too early or too late...
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Replacing Halogen Downlights
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A bedroom that is illuminated by expensive to run halogen downlights The same bedroom after the installation of cheaper to run and brighter LED Collingwood downlights in the same light locations A downlight is a light that emits a focused beam in a downward direction. Collingwood revolutionised LED downlights with the first fire-rated IP65 product, forerunner of the current H2 Pro collection...
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Underfloor Heating
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With a water-based underfloor heating system, a series of pipes connected to your boiler circulate warm water throughout the floor in each room, operating in a similar manner to the radiators in your house. Alternatively, you can connect the underfloor water pipes to a solar water-heating system, air-source or ground-source heat pump. The pipes will be connected to your heat source using a manifold (essentially a central system allowing all the...
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LED Downlights
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With over 20 downlights in our range, you may find yourself spoilt for choice. If you’re working on a project and can’t decide which to use, answer these questions to make sure you match your downlight and project perfectly. If you need to angle your light we have a number of solutions. For light fixed at an angle, the asymmetric H5 500 and H5 1000 are ideal for lighting artwork and walls. If you’re lacking artwork...
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