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What is the best way to wire ceiling lights?

Arran Cameron
The ceiling rose junction box with its loop-in wiring is now really showing its age and is no longer a practical (or even safe) installation for most residents who wish to install fancy light fittings. It is still, however, the most common arrangement for new build houses and rewires, probably as the result of the electrician's training and how they consider it to be the norm or they cannot think of (potentially better) alternatives.


So, what is the best way to wire ceiling lights? Should neutral wires be taken to the switches or not?
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    Like I said a bit back. Wiring at the CR loop in method (my prefered way but I was brung up that way ) and loop in at switch box both have pros and cons. However I do recognise that junction boxes if accessable do have their merits too. If not easily accessable a big no though. There again the old traditional singles with N & E looping to Roses and L & E looping to switches in the days when metal conduit was buried in walls from an earlier time do still have a place. Off course when you get a mixed hybrid of the two or three systems then it can cause a bit of head scrastching during fault finding or alterations/additions. All good fun this lighting caper.
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    Like I said a bit back. Wiring at the CR loop in method (my prefered way but I was brung up that way ) and loop in at switch box both have pros and cons. However I do recognise that junction boxes if accessable do have their merits too. If not easily accessable a big no though. There again the old traditional singles with N & E looping to Roses and L & E looping to switches in the days when metal conduit was buried in walls from an earlier time do still have a place. Off course when you get a mixed hybrid of the two or three systems then it can cause a bit of head scrastching during fault finding or alterations/additions. All good fun this lighting caper.
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