Imagine that you get the electrician to install LED lights  to your house and the next time you call will be in ten years… does this soundlike an attractive deal to you?

Among the many advantages of LED lights, one of the most significant one is their little or zero need of maintenance during their long lifespan. LED lights have a range of lifespan ranging from 25 000 hours even up to 100 000. With average use this can mean 10 years or more in a households. Now let’s see where it is best to switch for LEDs in the first place.

Since LEDs require no maintenance, it is especially advisedto use them at sites which are hard to access and therefore need special equipment and extra money to maintain. In a house the typical places for such use would be downlights with fixed covers, lights above stairs, in very high ceilings, or outdoor soffits. Anything which is difficult to reach or you needan electrician for even a simple change of bulb. If you have a few bulbs blown out in similar positions, and are planning to call an electrician to change them, you might consider getting that whole area done and switched for LED lighting, and get rid of with your halogen or incandescent lights. You will see how much energy LED lighting can save at the same time and how bright they can be.

For the same reason, LED lights can be the best possible solution for many business and institutes. Warehouses with high ceilings, halls in hotels, theatres or any reception area, corridors in older buildings, etc., are all potential places for use of LED lighting, where maintenance cost would be reduced to the minimum following installation. A good example for this is The Louvre Museum in Paris, which is agreed to be lit up by Toshiba in the following few years. Toshiba E-CORE LED lights will illuminate all public places in the museum, including the famous pyramid at the main entrance. The museum expects a considerable drop in its energy costs and no maintenance working the following 10 years the least due to the installation of LED lighting.

Anothercommon application of LEDs is the recently introduced street lamps, which arecombined with solar panels supplying the LEDs with renewable source of energy.This winning combination does not only provide street lamps with zeromaintenance for about 25 years to come (most street lamps have 100 000 yearslifespan), but also reduce the cost of installation – since solar lightsrequire no wiring, poles are set up easily, and zero operational cost, due toits own energy source. Further advantage of this application is the LEDsresistance to shock and vibration, making the light more durable in adverseweather conditions.