Philips Hue Ceiling and Pendant Light Installation in London

• Ceiling lights: Datura, Infuse, Enrave, Being, Fair, Still, Devere and the Xamento ceiling lamp
• Flat panels: Tento round and square panels, Aurelle and Surimu, and the Devote, which Hue sells as the Hue Slim ceiling light: a surface fitting, not a downlight
• Spot fittings: Centris ceiling lights with two, three or four spots
• Pendants: the Signe gradient pendant and pendulum, the Enrave, Ensis and Flourish pendants, and the Amaze and Fair suspensions
• Perifo: Hue's track system, with lights on rails fed from a ceiling or wall power supply

• The earth: lighting circuits wired before about 1966 often have none, and a Class I fitting with earthed metal parts cannot go on them until an earth is run to the point
• The rose: British loop-in roses usually carry a permanent live and a neutral as well as the switched live, which is where a wired switch module can sit if the switch box lacks a neutral
• The ceiling: lath and plaster, plasterboard or concrete, and where the joists run, since Signify's safety leaflet asks for fixings chosen for the fitting's weight and the ceiling material
• RCD protection: if the lighting circuit has none, you are told on the day, because adding it means work at the consumer unit that is not part of a light swap
• The switch: a dimmer on the circuit has to go, because the Signify leaflet says Hue fittings must not be connected to an additional dimmer

• Screws go into the joists, or into a timber noggin fixed between them, never into plasterboard alone
• A long fitting shows any skew, so it is lined up with the walls before the first hole is drilled
• With the LEDs built in there is no bulb to change later; the whole fitting joins your Bridge over Zigbee, or a phone over Bluetooth
• On a high ceiling or over a stairwell, your pro can ask another pro on JACK to help through the Pro2Pro feature

• Ceiling power supply: Hue says it wires into your home's electricity, takes 220–240 V, is Class II and powers up to 100 W of Perifo lights, with an electrical box cover in the box
• The 1-point unit feeds the end of one rail, and the 2-point unit feeds two rails from the same ceiling point
• Wall power supply: a plug-in adapter, so no fixed wiring is touched and only the rail is fixed
• Before fixing, the pro adds up the wattage of every Perifo light on the run so it stays within the 100 W each ceiling power supply allows

A vetted pro prices your Hue job from the products and your photos, and the JACK app shows that fixed price before you book.

Whether the job touches your wiring matters more than how many lights there are. Fitting B22 or GU10 bulbs, setting up a Bridge and plugging in lamps, Play bars or a lightstrip is set-up work. Ceiling lights, Perifo track, wall switch modules and mains outdoor lights are electrical work on your existing circuits, priced for the isolating, connecting and testing each one needs.

Then the home itself: a heavy fitting that has to go into a joist, a high or sloping ceiling, a two-way landing that needs a module at both switches, old cable with no earth, or a long garden run for low-volt lights. On a high ceiling or a long fitting, your pro can ask another pro on JACK to help through the Pro2Pro feature. Several Hue jobs, and devices from other brands, go on one booking for one fixed price.

You buy the Hue products; JACK does not sell them. Accessories the job needs, such as a deeper back box, an in-use cover for an outdoor socket or aluminium channel for a strip, are agreed and added at cost before you book, and so is parking where it has to be paid for. Prefer to pay for time? As a guide, hourly hire is typically £45–£95 per hour for smart home work and £55–£110 per hour for electrical work, and a full-day handyman booking is a flat £350–£400 for up to 8 hours on site, which suits a whole-house Hue fit.