Electric, Lighting & Extension Cords

Electric, Lighting & Extension Cords

Belleville Market encourages you to place lamps and lighting for illumination in your unit as a well-lit space looks more inviting and appealing to customers. Belleville Market management will not be responsible for turning lighting within your unit on each morning and/or off each night. If you prefer any lighting to not remain on outside of business hours, it will be your responsibility to plug said lighting into an outlet timer.

Timers are not required at Belleville Market. However, if you choose to use a timer, please keep the following guideline in mind: 
  1. Lighting on timers should be set to turn on no later than 9am each day and not turn off before 10pm each evening. 
Light Bulbs
For safety reasons, incandescent bulbs are not permitted. Only CFL or LED bulbs using less than 10 watts are permitted. A good rule of thumb to determine if a bulb is too hot is to see if you can hold your hand on it for longer than 5 seconds. If you can’t, it’s too hot.

Small “candlestick” lamps with miniature bulbs get extremely hot. Therefore, these lamps may not be used for illumination unless the bulbs are replaced with CFL or LED bulbs.

If you want your bulb returned to you, please include a tag on the product that states “bulb not included”.  We will do our best to remove the bulb and save it for you. Please note, we’re not responsible for lost bulbs.

Due to the risk of customers placing flammable items such as linens or paper items against a bulb, all lamps with bulbs must have a shade, even if they are not plugged in. If you are hanging or displaying strings of lights, please use only LED lights.
Please keep in mind when using cords and electrical in your booth:
  1. If you are using extension cords, please use sparingly. Likewise, please keep all cords nice and neat. 
  2. We encourage you to plug all items into a power strip. Please remember power strips may not be plugged into an extension cord or another power strip (ie, daisy chained). They must be plugged directly into a wall outlet.
  3. You may only utilize outlets within your booth space.
  4. All units that have access to electricity must abide by these rules for the safety of the whole store. If your unit does not have electricity and you would like to add it, we may elect to hire an electrician for you to do the work at your expense. 


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