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Lighting installation near you

Recessed, landscape and fixture work.

Prepared by the TenBestFind Editorial TeamUpdated September 2026

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  • Part of

    Electrical

  • Companies offer it

    40

  • Cities covered

    8

  • Last checked

    September 2026

The work

What lighting installation actually involves

Fittings, controls, and whether the dimmer will get on with the lamps

Most lighting work is straightforward: replacing fittings, adding recessed lights, putting in under-cabinet or outdoor lighting. The complications are usually in the ceiling rather than the fitting, particularly where there is insulation, a fire-rated ceiling or a joist exactly where the light should go.

The other complication is dimming. Low-energy lamps and older dimmers are frequently incompatible, which shows up as flicker, buzz, a narrow dimming range or lamps that will not go low without dropping out.

Colour temperature is worth deciding deliberately across a whole room rather than fitting by fitting. Mixing warm and neutral lamps in one space is the most common reason new lighting looks wrong in a way people struggle to name.

Recessed lights

A downlight is a hole in your ceiling, and the ceiling may have a job

Cutting recessed fittings into a ceiling is easy. Whether that ceiling is doing something else is the question worth asking first.

Where the ceiling is part of a fire separation, between a garage and a room above, or between flats, the fittings have to maintain that rating, and the correct products cost more than standard ones.

Insulation matters too. A fitting not rated for contact with insulation needs clearance around it, and pulling the insulation back from a dozen holes measurably affects the thermal performance of the ceiling.

Failure points

Two things that go wrong

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  1. Dimmer and lamp not matched

    Ask: “Have you checked the dimmer against the lamps on the manufacturer's compatibility list?”

    The commonest complaint after a lighting job is flicker or buzz, and it is almost always a compatibility problem between the dimmer and the driver in the lamp. Manufacturers publish compatibility lists. Choosing both from one list beforehand avoids the whole conversation.

  2. Integrated fittings that cannot be relamped

    Ask: “Are these relampable, or does the whole fitting get replaced when it fails?”

    Many modern fittings have the light source built in, so when it fails the whole fitting is replaced rather than the lamp. That is fine if you know it, and it is a poor surprise in eight years across twenty downlights in a plastered ceiling.

Before you book lighting installation

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Six checks, in the order they save you the most. None of them takes longer than a phone call, and the first one is the reason two quotes for the same job can be a thousand apart.

  1. In-house or subcontracted

    Ask whether the crew doing this specific work is on their payroll. Plenty of companies list a service and hand it straight to somebody else, which is not wrong, but it changes who is answerable when something goes back.

  2. The licence for the parent trade

    Look the number up with the authority that issues it rather than reading the certificate they send you. What a licence covers, and whether one is needed at all, changes by state and province.

  3. Insurance, confirmed with the insurer

    A current certificate sent to you by the insurer, not a photocopy from the company. Ask for liability and, where crews are on site, workers' compensation.

  4. What the quote leaves out

    Removal, disposal, subfloor or substrate work, permits and making good afterwards are where two quotes on the same job separate. Ask for the exclusions in writing next to the inclusions.

  5. Two warranties, not one

    The manufacturer covers the material and the company covers the workmanship. Get the second in writing, with its length, and ask whether it transfers if you sell.

  6. How a change is priced

    Agree before the deposit how anything found on the way is priced and approved. The moment to settle that is while you are still choosing between companies, not on the day somebody lifts a floorboard.

Where we cover it

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A company offering lighting installation appears in the published list for its own market. Each one names the editor who built it and the date they last checked it.

On the lists

Companies that list lighting installation

Drawn from the profiles where this service is recorded, not from what a company advertises.

Common questions about lighting installation

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  • Who handles lighting installation?

    Lighting installation is handled by electricians. Not every company in the trade takes this work on, so each ranking lists the services a company genuinely performs rather than everything it advertises.

  • What should I ask before booking lighting installation?

    Ask what the quote includes and excludes, who is doing the work, whether a permit is needed and who is pulling it, and what the workmanship warranty covers. Get the answers in writing before anyone starts.

  • How do I compare quotes for this?

    Put them on one sheet line by line. Differences in price almost always turn out to be differences in scope, material grade or warranty length rather than margin.

  • Is lighting installation priced separately from the rest of the job?

    Usually it is a line inside a larger quote rather than its own invoice, which is exactly why the exclusions matter. Ask for it itemised so you can compare that line between companies instead of comparing two totals.

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