I received a flyer in the mail about free LED upgrades for a flat $33 fee covering unlimited lights. The website is: Accredited Power. Anyone have experiences with this company or would recommend a different company with a similar program? I'm in NSW btw.
The catch probably is you'll get lights that you probably wouldn't have chosen to buy normally. But they'll be better than your old CFL bulbs at least.
Give them a burner phone number cause they'll ring you forever after to ask if you also need an exhaust fan draft stopper and door/chimney seals.
Give them a burner phone number
The ACMA has set aside a bunch of phone numbers for fictional purposes. You can give these phone numbers to people you don't want to hear from again.
You need one that they can actually contact you on to organise the job.
We did 50 halogens to LED via this offer, not sure if the same company.
Trouble\Catch was we had dimmers on all 50 so while we were able to get the $33 deal however if we wanted dimmers for the LEDs they had to upgrade the light fittings, the dimmer light switches and then pay a little more for the globes that were dimmable. So was def a catch for us however we wanted the ability to use dimmers so ended up costing just under $700. Comparing this to paying for the new fittings ($20 ea) and then a sparkie to change all 50 we probably saved about +$500. First bill after upgrade was about $80 lower than previous bills with same usuage.
Company is legit. Have been in operation for 5-8 years. They change your standard lights to LED. There are extra charges if you have dimmers.
Yup. I used them.
Mind you they're kinda like a consulting company that manages project but outsources everything. So the sparky/ies that come out are the ones that they've got in their system and are probably on the end of sparkles that need the work to fill their schedules, if you catch my meaning.
The ones that came out for me did a decent job. They had a lot to do (100+ lights) and they didn't do a bad job anywhere but they'd left a mess all over the house (dust and junk from the ceiling falling down). So my advice is to prepare areas under the lights. If it's clothing, beds, kitchen areas etc. They won't have much time to waste (I assume it might be a price per light job) so they won't be super sensitive to your cleanliness. I remember them putting boot prints all over my kitchen island.
While I'm sure I got pretty average lights with low CRI, they all work as expected and all continue to work. I also had to put in a dozen dimmers at $60 a pop. Not terrible value at around $2k for 5-man days of electrician, 100+ lights and 12 dimmers installed.
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