Pavement Light - Cellar

[Rob Griffiths]

A difficult one ...

The light-well to my cellar is currently capped with a steel plate and concrete.

The level of the path (which incorporates this capping) is too high for the damp course so I'm having it dug up and having clay pavers laid at a lower level.

It seems to me a wasted opportunity not to install some sort of 'pavement light' into the new path to provide natural light for the cellar below (I'll add more air bricks for ventilation).

Limitations:

The pavement light needs to be flush with the block paving and able to bear the weight of someone walking obliquely over it because it's very close to an outward opening door (having an inward opening door is not part of the solution space!)

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[Fash]

You could try finding the price of walkable glass

a possible supplier. I'm interested in a similar solution myself but it's not an immediate requirement. I'll be interested to hear where this ends up. Email address is as written. Similar products from I'm sure I saw them walking on glass in an old 'Grand Designs' project, some oak framed house. Another one of these must be useful?!

Fash

[Andy Champ]

Rob, try googling for (no brackets) I can't believe those things cost a grand, but they don't seem to give prices.

Andy

[Rob Griffiths]

Oh I've done a lot of googling and a lot of phone calling. Getting a company specialising in pavement lights would definitely cost over a grand - they're bespoke ...

Rob

[Owain]

You can buy a lot of fluorescent lights for the cellar for a grand ....

Owain

[nightjar]

I would weld up a grid of inverted T shaped steel, drop loose fitting glass blocks into that, on rubber, mastic or similar to provide a cushion, and grout between them with a cement based grout. You could probably also weld in a couple of flat bars down one side, that were a few millimetre apart and that came a bit above path level (helps keep water out), to provide a built-in ventilation slot.

Colin Bignell

[meow2222]

Whatever you do, painting the sides of the glass blocks white before embedding them will increase your light level.

NT

[meow2222]

and if its next to a wall, a sheet of polished metal or even just white paint on the wall would add more light input.

NT

[Justin]

Happy to quote and offer advise

Contact Justin

[rde42]

He's probably found something in the last 13 years.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Justin wrote on 10/02/2021 :

Another reply to an ancient post.

[Tim+]

?Advice?

13 years after the original question? Can?t see it happening.

Tim

[Dave Plowman (News]

The pavement will likely be a cycle lane by now.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

????

what one of them then? Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

yes but what is it, Now its annoying me.. sulk. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Perhaps his surname is time? Justin Time geddit? Brian

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

on 10/02/2021, Brian Gaff (Sofa) supposed :

Those squares of glass you would sometimes see in the pavement, set in concrete, which allowed light to penetrate through into a basement area

- whilst still allowing people to walk over the top of them.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Brian Gaff (Sofa) formulated the question :

gottit.

[Graham.]

According to Company's House, Justin Peter Crooks is their sole director and "Pavement Light Fixer"

[Max Demian]

"Business is looking up" as the lavatory attendant said in the Carry On film.