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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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    Some years ago I was working on a job and a plasterer said “You’re not a proper electrician, are you?”


    I said “Why?”


    The plasterer replied “You don’t knock holes in the finished plasterwork when you second fixing and testing!”.


    Joking apart, electrician’s are generally considered to be destructive people who go into jobs and start knocking holes in walls and ceilings that have been plastered and are ready for decorating or ripping up floors, because there issues with concealed cables and junction boxes.


    Whilst you may not prevent damage to a cable due to the stupidity of other people, you can at least not conceal any junction boxes, particularly when there is not any need for the junction boxes in the first place.


    Andy Betteridge
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    Some years ago I was working on a job and a plasterer said “You’re not a proper electrician, are you?”


    I said “Why?”


    The plasterer replied “You don’t knock holes in the finished plasterwork when you second fixing and testing!”.


    Joking apart, electrician’s are generally considered to be destructive people who go into jobs and start knocking holes in walls and ceilings that have been plastered and are ready for decorating or ripping up floors, because there issues with concealed cables and junction boxes.


    Whilst you may not prevent damage to a cable due to the stupidity of other people, you can at least not conceal any junction boxes, particularly when there is not any need for the junction boxes in the first place.


    Andy Betteridge
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