Mostly a question about how often the layout changes, and whether you are allowed to cut the ceiling.
Concrete slabs, listed or historic buildings, exposed-services ceilings, and any retail floor where the merchandising layout changes seasonally. Adding, moving or re-aiming a head takes a minute and leaves no hole behind.
Fixed layouts, low ceilings where a projecting head would be in the way, and any interior where the ceiling has to read as a clean plane — hotel corridors, restaurants, high-end residential.
Very common in malls and department stores: recessed downlights for the base layer, track for the tenant or display layer. The LK and MK ladders in this catalogue carry the same 15°/24°/36°/50° beam set as the recessed ranges, so the two layers match.
A track head sits below the ceiling, so its throw distance is shorter than a recessed fitting in the same room — usually one step wider on beam angle or one step down on wattage compared with the recessed equivalent.
Send us the room and the ceiling and we will tell you what we would specify and why.
