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How many lumens do I need per square foot?

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How many lumens do I need per square foot?

Lighting Requirements for Commercial and Residential Spaces

Residential Spaces

Living room: You will need different amounts of lux or foot-candles for each space such as:

  • Supervisory work on machinery, equipment, or products.
  • Transportation or movement of materials. Location of heavy material. (60 lumens needed)
  • Common reading, writing, word processing, using computers or files, receipt of documents. (80 lumens needed)
  • Severe or prolonged tasks with visual requirement to fine details, painting or detail work, work with small parts. (90 lumens needed)
  • Hand crafting, manual work on tiny pieces, inspection, or assembly of tiny parts. (110 lumens needed)
  • Exceptional tasks difficult or with extraordinary visual requirement. (Up to 150 lumens needed depending on the task)

High Bay Lighting Installation 400W

Our Services

We at GGJIA LED Shop aim to bring you the best service and experience. We conduct simulations and create layouts for your building or shop to help you determine the necessary lights, spacing, wattage, and color temperature based on your preference. We provide a visual representation showing how your building or shop will look with the installed lights and the amount of foot-candles on the surfaces.

Our Products

Each of our lights offers different amounts of lumens:

High Bay Lighting

GGJIA Linear High Bay Lighting

Contact us to determine how many lights you will need according to your specific needs and the appropriate spacing for the lights.

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