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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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    Arran Cameron:




    ebee:

    that might be because most of their customers are that type and it is like a breathe of fresh air to find a rare client who wants different. In the real world it can be a race to the bottom on price, done as quick as possible . Or they get someone else. That way the mindset of many gets fixed to what it is generally not what we would like it to be.




    There may be much truth to this but this raises the question do intrepid and forward thinking homeowners who want to add advanced features take away work from qualified electricians leaving them with only the boring 'bread and butter' stuff, or are most qualified electricians so stuck in their ways that they are unable or unwilling to add these advanced features or offer anything truly different from the standard fare that homeowners end up having to do the job themself?


    I'm intrigued to know what the electrics are like of the homes owned by building electricians. Do they even have fancy light fittings or do they have boring white plastic ceiling roses in every room?



     


     




    Probably as we all know what a pain in the *** they are to fit, no matter which style of wiring has been done at the ceiling rose. 

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    Arran Cameron:




    ebee:

    that might be because most of their customers are that type and it is like a breathe of fresh air to find a rare client who wants different. In the real world it can be a race to the bottom on price, done as quick as possible . Or they get someone else. That way the mindset of many gets fixed to what it is generally not what we would like it to be.




    There may be much truth to this but this raises the question do intrepid and forward thinking homeowners who want to add advanced features take away work from qualified electricians leaving them with only the boring 'bread and butter' stuff, or are most qualified electricians so stuck in their ways that they are unable or unwilling to add these advanced features or offer anything truly different from the standard fare that homeowners end up having to do the job themself?


    I'm intrigued to know what the electrics are like of the homes owned by building electricians. Do they even have fancy light fittings or do they have boring white plastic ceiling roses in every room?



     


     




    Probably as we all know what a pain in the *** they are to fit, no matter which style of wiring has been done at the ceiling rose. 

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