Dressing Room Lighting Problem: Cages for Bulbs?

[actition]

I am the part-time Facilities Manager for Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland. We are upgrading our upstairs dressing rooms to meet Equity standards, which requires cages around all exposed bulbs. I have asked around at different lighting fixture companies and none of them have any idea what I am talking about and usually try to sell me something that looks like it belongs on a ship. I checked another equity house, but the fixture they used cost $35/ft (not including the $32 a piece cages).
I am wondering if anyone would like to share with me what kind of lighting you have in your dressing rooms and how you solved the problem of getting cages mounted around them. I don't have a lot to spend but it is important that I do what is necessary.
Sincerely,
Tyler

[avkid]

Go to an electrical supply house and ask them.
The best I found so far is $27.
http://www.elights.com/invaplig.html

If you can convince management to shell out the cash, use LED bulbs instead of incandescent. They absolutely do not require cages and are generally not glass, but hard plastic.

[actition]

Thank you for the link, unfortunately those are the cages I can't use. I need something on a bar or strip for next to the mirrors, and these aren't really applicable for that use. The LED idea was interesting, but you're right it probably is expensive.

Tyler

[icewolf08]

You could bend chicken wire around the entire row of lights and then fasten it down.

[avkid]

Originally Posted by actition

The LED idea was interesting, but you're right it probably is expensive.

$15 per lamp.
But, you'll be retired by the time they're dead.
They might also be eligible for federal grants for a "green" installation.

[gafftapegreenia]

Can you describe the lamp base. I know what your talking about, I just need to track them down.

MUST they be metal, or can they be plastic?

[gafftaper]

Originally Posted by actition

Thank you for the link, unfortunately those are the cages I can't use. I need something on a bar or strip for next to the mirrors, and these aren't really applicable for that use. The LED idea was interesting, but you're right it probably is expensive.
Tyler

Take a closer look at this one from the link Phil posted. It looks like it's got a base on it that you can run conduit right into. If that's right you could just build your own strip with short pieces of conduit between boxes.

[David Ashton]

I would have to query the idea of led lights for dressing rooms.If make-up was applied in this sort of light it may then be wrong in stage light.

[avkid]

Originally Posted by allthingstheatre

I would have to query the idea of led lights for dressing rooms.If make-up was applied in this sort of light it may then be wrong in stage light.

Are you serious?
The make alot of different color temperatures.
And the flourescents in every other dressing room are great too.
(note sarcasm)

[spiwak2005]

We have flourescents in our dressing rooms (duh - it's a school) but I have had several touring groups complain that it wasn't stage lighting. So that's why "allthingstheatre" IS serious!!