--- title: "Downlight installation in Ashtead | 5.0 Star · From £150" description: "Downlight installation in Ashtead cuts a hole only where a void exists. The Street cottages and Agates Lane extensions are checked as the ceilings they…" canonical: "https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-ashtead/downlight-installation" --- # Downlight installation in Ashtead > Downlight installation in Ashtead cuts a hole only where a void exists. The Street cottages and Agates Lane extensions are checked as the ceilings they… TMB Electrics, based in Banstead, fits downlights in Ashtead only where the ceiling has a void. A cottage on The Street without that void keeps a fitting the ceiling can hold. ## Ashtead downlight price The figure follows the number of openings the Ashtead ceiling can actually take. A cottage on The Street that keeps surface fittings is not priced as a run of cut holes. - Lighting installation: from £150 - Making good and decorating around new openings are separate. - A new circuit, where the existing one cannot feed the lamps, is named before the holes are cut. - Fire hoods are included only where the ceiling construction requires them and the quote says so. ## Downlight installation across Ashtead We serve Ashtead from our base in Banstead. - The Street - Barnett Wood Lane - Woodfield Lane - Craddocks Avenue - Agates Lane - Ottways Lane - Park Lane - Ashtead Park - Ashtead Common - Ashtead station ## What happens on the day A hole is cut only where there is a void above the ceiling. Period cottages on The Street often cannot take that hole, and they keep a fitting the ceiling can hold. An extended semi on Agates Lane may have a different void in the extension from the original house, so each ceiling is checked on its own. 1930s houses off Craddocks Avenue are not assumed to have a clear void just because of their age. ### Check the void first Each proposed hole on Craddocks Avenue or Woodfield Lane is checked for a real void and for what already runs in it. The age of a 1930s house is not treated as permission to cut. ### Treat the extension apart Agates Lane extensions have a different ceiling space from the original house. Downlights in the extension are planned on that void, and the original ceiling is left uncut if it cannot take them. ### Keep a solid ceiling solid Where a cottage on The Street has no void, the job becomes fittings the ceiling can carry. The plaster stays. A hole is not cut to force a downlight into a ceiling that has nowhere for it. ## Ashtead downlight questions ### Will you cut holes in a cottage ceiling on The Street? Only where a void is there and the ceiling can take the opening. If it cannot, the fitting changes to one the ceiling can hold, and the plaster is left alone. ### Is an Agates Lane extension the same ceiling as the original house? Not by default. Extended semis there often have a different void in the new part. Each ceiling is checked, and a void in one does not license holes in the other. ### Do 1930s houses off Woodfield Lane always have a clear void? No. The second consumer unit tells us nothing about the ceiling. The void is looked at, including what already runs through it, before a hole is marked. ### What if the existing circuit cannot feed the extra lamps? The extra circuit is described before any cutting. On a long serving circuit in Lower Ashtead, spare capacity is tested rather than assumed from a working switch. ### Are the lamps themselves in the figure? Only the lamps named on the quote. 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