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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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    A bog standard ceiling rose is just a junction box when wired loop in.

    Behind a plateswitch or indeed a socket is effectively a junction box quite often.

    These are places that are relatively easy to inspect/disconnect/test.

    Deliberately adding junction boxes under floors, in lofts, in walls is not a very clever thing to do usually.


    Reminds me of fan isolators I sometimes see (or rather do not see) .

    Bathroom fan, timed overun etc, isolator in loft, nobody knows it`s there! I always put them just outside the bathroom but high up enough to be not normally accessable )i.e. not switch height) but readily viewable and capable of operation by using steps or a long stick etc
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    A bog standard ceiling rose is just a junction box when wired loop in.

    Behind a plateswitch or indeed a socket is effectively a junction box quite often.

    These are places that are relatively easy to inspect/disconnect/test.

    Deliberately adding junction boxes under floors, in lofts, in walls is not a very clever thing to do usually.


    Reminds me of fan isolators I sometimes see (or rather do not see) .

    Bathroom fan, timed overun etc, isolator in loft, nobody knows it`s there! I always put them just outside the bathroom but high up enough to be not normally accessable )i.e. not switch height) but readily viewable and capable of operation by using steps or a long stick etc
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