Hire a lighting planner or not?

Hi!

The electrician of our GÜ recommended that we hire a lighting planner. He "happens" to know someone.

I think such a lighting plan is indeed sensible. However, I have seen very different prices. One offers something flat-rate, another charges according to HOAI....

Do you have any recommendations for me on which model to prefer and what to pay attention to?

The electrician says the lighting planner should plan it and he will then carry it out. On the other hand, there are also lighting planners who, in addition to their planning service, also want to sell the luminaires and carry out the installation.

Please share your experiences on this topic.

In the neighboring thread about LEDs, there are a few approaches on how not to do it. Otherwise, I am of the opinion that you can do without a lighting planner if you yourself know where you want mood lighting with existing lamps or work lighting. It is nice to be able to switch several indirect lights with one switch during the dark season. Unfortunately, we do not have that.

You use lighting designers in houses where Klee and Kokoschka hang in the hallway and the water flows from Dornbracht. Simply because staff lights by Heini Huber hung according to scheme F are pearls before swine. Only for illuminating a lilac-colored wall they are still quite dispensable.

House control - lighting planning - locking planning I would do everything from one source.

House control - lighting planning - locking planning I would do everything from a single source.

Locking planning? What does that include?

Everything from a single source will be hard to find though.

Everything from a single source is going to be hard to find.

I had already offered you in the PM to talk to "my" planner.

Lock planning? What does that include?

I meant: lighting and control belong together, then also cozy lighting and security lighting, and likewise the gate drive and the motor lock in the possibly intermediate door etcetera.

Many things overlap here, and some even interlock; it shouldn't be a patchwork.

After all, you don't build a "people's house" like Flair 113 in terms of price ;-)

The lock planning itself is not very complex here, in a single-family house with one or two entrances.

I had already offered you in the PM to talk to "my" planner.

True. But I somehow think it's better if the people who plan it also implement the whole thing. Otherwise, this usually ends in mutual accusations. Otherwise, such pure planning is of course worth its weight in gold, since it is planned in the financial interest of the customer and not in the financial interest of the planner, seller, and installer. However, this is quite special in the EPCI ratio. In the end, with such a constellation, I might also pay more than what I save with efficient planning....