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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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    but you are surely not going to have a horizontal chase all the way around a sitting room?




    Just me then (?), though to be fair not often, and I agree it feels 'wrong', but I have a couple of cases I recall, once  actually in a conservatory, where there was no roof void to go up into anyway, and another in a kitchen, with flat above and below having a solid floor, so the wiring was horizontal between boxes below counter for appliance sockets and pops up for sockets and switches.


    But it is spurious, and as far as possible, all joints should be in back boxes of sockets or switches, or if in the ceiling, perhaps in these things round dry line boxes,   with lid   which at a push can take a stuffing gland, in places where a ceiling rose would go if there had been more room for it.

    In a well designed layout, there should be an absolute minimum of joint boxes of any kind. I agree they are occasionally  unavoidable, but undesirable.

     


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    but you are surely not going to have a horizontal chase all the way around a sitting room?




    Just me then (?), though to be fair not often, and I agree it feels 'wrong', but I have a couple of cases I recall, once  actually in a conservatory, where there was no roof void to go up into anyway, and another in a kitchen, with flat above and below having a solid floor, so the wiring was horizontal between boxes below counter for appliance sockets and pops up for sockets and switches.


    But it is spurious, and as far as possible, all joints should be in back boxes of sockets or switches, or if in the ceiling, perhaps in these things round dry line boxes,   with lid   which at a push can take a stuffing gland, in places where a ceiling rose would go if there had been more room for it.

    In a well designed layout, there should be an absolute minimum of joint boxes of any kind. I agree they are occasionally  unavoidable, but undesirable.

     


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