ᐅ Recessed ceiling lights in a concrete ceiling – very expensive from the developer – your tips?

Hello everyone,

we are planning to build a >townhouse with Team Massivhaus and would like to install many recessed ceiling lights on the ground floor. Our developer is charging 180 euros per light, which I find very expensive. Do you have any ideas on how to do this yourself or outsource it differently? Best regards and thanks in advance

Lower the ceiling and then do it yourself. It’s worth it at that price.

That’s still reasonable in terms of price. Ours cost about €240 per spot. Here it was a case of "take it or leave it."

Alternatively, Egberto’s suggestion...

Well, lowering the ceiling would mean that we’d first have to raise the floor level, which costs about 1500 euros per 10cm (5 inches). The developer does not offer ceiling lowering for the entire upper floor. If you hire an external contractor, it would cost around 80 euros per m² (square meter), which would make the entire ground floor very expensive. We want ceiling spots in the hallway, kitchen, and living room, so that’s a large area in square meters.

You will have to choose one way or another. I’m planning to install suspended ceilings. It looks good, doesn’t it?

It's certainly a bit expensive, but there's quite a lot of effort involved.
Pour HaloxDose into the concrete parts, lay cables on the precast elements inside the box, later plaster/sand the ceiling extra in those spots, measure the exact location, drill the hole, fish out the cable, mount the installation ring, and connect the LED...