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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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    AJJewsbury:




    We have been discussing lighting circuits, but how do you avoid junction boxes at the branches of radial (socket) circuits?



    Tee off at a socket (or at the CU/DB). If needs be specify some of the "better" socket brands that support 3off 4mm² conductors in each terminal.


    That may work unless Madam has set her heart on some wooden sockets, or other design in which appearance is more important than durability or function. It may work well for a row of sockets behind a desk or in a kitchen, but you are surely not going to have a horizontal chase all the way around a sitting room? So either you use a JB here and there, or else you bring the wires up (or down) to a socket and back, in which case it is beginning to look like a ring. ?

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    AJJewsbury:




    We have been discussing lighting circuits, but how do you avoid junction boxes at the branches of radial (socket) circuits?



    Tee off at a socket (or at the CU/DB). If needs be specify some of the "better" socket brands that support 3off 4mm² conductors in each terminal.


    That may work unless Madam has set her heart on some wooden sockets, or other design in which appearance is more important than durability or function. It may work well for a row of sockets behind a desk or in a kitchen, but you are surely not going to have a horizontal chase all the way around a sitting room? So either you use a JB here and there, or else you bring the wires up (or down) to a socket and back, in which case it is beginning to look like a ring. ?

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