How to choose and assemble the chandelier from the ceiling - set the right lighting

Chandelier - a light source mounted in the ceiling and having a complex configuration. Other lamps chandelier is distinguished by its design - there's always more than one (at least - two) light bulbs. In addition to lighting, chandelier also carries a decorative function. It is decorated with carvings, inlays, ornaments, pendants and other elements that make it an art object.

Lamp holders are usually mounted on curved legs, which are called horns. However, modern lamps may have very different shapes. From the materials most commonly used metal, plastic or glass, if an expensive chandelier, the crystal.

The choice of chandeliers on the ceiling

Once in the store, or department of the hypermarket of household goods, which brings together products for lighting, a person can easily get lost in a large assortment. Visually, some goods may like to shop, but the installation will be that to choose a chandelier does not fit into the interior. In order not to be faced with such a situation, it is necessary learn a few rules:

• Size of the room and the chandelier should be in harmonious relation. This means that the dimensions of the luminaire must not be in sharp dissonance with an area of ​​the room. Pompous chandelier in a small apartment would look tasteless. But tiny in a big living room just lost.

• It is necessary to take into account the height of the room. If the ceilings are low in the house, in an area of ​​two and a half meters, the purchase of pendant chandelier is recommended to abstain. Even if you are not tall, being under the chandelier and a wave of his hand, run the risk of break up or lose the bulb glass. Choose a chandelier, which is spread along the ceiling. In older homes with ceiling heights of about 3 m pendant chandelier will look as well as possible, especially with stucco.
• calculates the aperture ratio. In areas where a lot of light, chandeliers need a few lights. Put two powerful incandescent lamps, offsetting the amount is not always safe. The fact that each chandelier has a redistribution of power light bulbs, which are allowed to be installed. However, with the advent of LED lamps that emit little heat and have a low power consumption, the issue of congestion is not as acute.

When the choice is made, and you are awarded a treasured box, do not be lazy to open it and check the items below, that is, all those rings, hooks, screws and tubes in place. It is very insulting, when due to the small details can not collect light.

Step by step installation manual chandeliers

Despite the variety of chandeliers, fastening mechanisms have standard. Suspended chandeliers typically have a loop to the required load calculated as the weight of iron and a multi-piece glass chandeliers can be significant. The loop is hung on the hook. Such a hook can already be installed. In the homes of old buildings is a serious fasteners, imbedded into the ceiling.

In the Khrushchev period, mass housing for the chandeliers in the space between the concrete floor slabs sticks and throws a solution more lived hard wire. It is better to buy a new home improvement store ceiling hook and fasten to the ceiling on the screws in the plastic anchors. If there are doubts about the strength, it is better to use anchor bolts - they just do not fall out of the ceiling.

Many of the ceiling lamps are attached with screws on a special mounting plate, which is then closed with a decorative plate or rosette. The procedure works in this case is as follows:

Step 1. The ceiling drilled holes for the mounting bracket on both sides of the output wires. The main thing here - do not get a drill or screws on the wiring. For this Orient: cable usually are at a right angle from the nearest transfer case. Screwing the mounting plate, start the connection wires.

Step 2. Posting old houses usually consists of two wires - and zero phase. In new buildings added to them a third wire --yellow-green. This ground, in the chandelier, it is not particularly comes in handy, but is derived. Blue wire - is zero, and the phase may be indicated by different colors, mostly brown. Phase wire screwdriver indicator checked.

Chandelier can be designed to switch to two-three keys, then zero connected to the blue wire on each horn, and the phase - to different conclusions from the switch. It's best to do it through the connectors, and then isolation is not required.

Step 3. After the connection test the chandelier. If all goes well, the wires are hidden decorative boxes, which is screwed or vscholkivaetsya into the holes on the mounting plate.