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It's just occurred to us that we are going to need flippin' long light cables for our kitchen/dining area!
The kitchen has been painted and the kitchen is almost installed, but I am not on site whilst posting this so I used the picture I used to sell the plasterboard lifter!
The drop from where we have the lighting cable to a "normal" light height over the kitchen and dining table is 2.6m. A vaulted ceiling seemed like a good idea, but I didn't think about the super-long drop from the cable to where we expected the light to be and the affect on positioning of the Velux windows!
Any ideas please 😊

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We have a sloping ceiling in our open plan living area. Over the kitchen island we have 3 pendant lights that hang down. Each cable is about 1m.

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At each end of the cable there is a "grommet" on the fitting (i.e. at the ceiling rose, and the light "socket") that has a plastic grommet screw that holds the cable - these take the strain of the weight than the cable screws inside the fittings.

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2 hours ago, Lincolnshire Ian said:

It's just occurred to us that we are going to need flippin' long light cables for our kitchen/dining area!
The kitchen has been painted and the kitchen is almost installed, but I am not on site whilst posting this so I used the picture I used to sell the plasterboard lifter!
The drop from where we have the lighting cable to a "normal" light height over the kitchen and dining table is 2.6m. A vaulted ceiling seemed like a good idea, but I didn't think about the super-long drop from the cable to where we expected the light to be and the affect on positioning of the Velux windows!
Any ideas please 😊

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We used these just over 2m drop 

https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-baldwin-pendant-ceiling-cord/aged-pewter/p4031404?s_ppc=2dx_mixed_home_BAU&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20151162426&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkMjOBhC5ARIsADIdb3e018nJStjsUEt-ErNA1IrlolkQN4ZtWLq-x2XY89o9wJtRERm3ZEwaAtWCEALw_wcB

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