How can I adjust the height of my pendant lights?
I’m not too proud to admit, I have bonked my head on low hanging kitchen pendants more than once! After some colourful language, this prompted me to ask - how can I adjust the length of these pendant lights to be the right height above my kitchen benchtop?
Like so many things - it depends!
If you have hard-wired pendant lights, you usually have 2 options-
Typically there is a grub screw in the canopy (ceiling part) that holds the cable in place. Loosen it, then if possible, push or pull the cable through the hole to adjust the height. Then re-tighten the grub screw.
If option 1 isn’t possible for whatever reason, your only remaining option is to coil the cable and tie it up with a cable-tie or something similar.
If you’ve ever tried it yourself, you’ll know that neither option is very good
Trying to push or pull a flexible cable through a canopy is much harder than it looks - especially while stretching up and balancing on a ladder! Or you can climb into your ceiling space to pull it easily- but nobody wants to do that! And the cable-tying loop method just looks nasty!
If you have DIY pendants hooked up to your batten holders (batten fix), you really only have the cable-tie option above. Not great at all.
BUT NOW Snap Lighting has THE SOLUTION!
With Snap Lighting pendant fittings, you don’t need any tools or cable ties at all! And you certainly don’t need to climb into your ceiling space with your 8-legged friends. You simply push-out your fitting from the Snap Lighting socket, coil or uncoil to adjust the cable, then push back into the Snap Lighting socket. Done! So easy!
