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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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    If you ever end up working in flats built in the 60’s and 70’s, particularly social housing flats, you will often find that the lighting circuits are installed in the floor screed of the flat above in what is basically a plastic hose pipe  consisting of three tubes, connect conduit boxes sunk into the ceiling formed by the soffit of the concrete floor beams at the lighting points and KO boxes at the switch points with single core single insulated conductors between them.


    No one even considered that someone would want to access a cable mid run, why would they, everything was installed from the switch and lighting points with the cables being fed through the conduits.


    Andy Betteridge
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    If you ever end up working in flats built in the 60’s and 70’s, particularly social housing flats, you will often find that the lighting circuits are installed in the floor screed of the flat above in what is basically a plastic hose pipe  consisting of three tubes, connect conduit boxes sunk into the ceiling formed by the soffit of the concrete floor beams at the lighting points and KO boxes at the switch points with single core single insulated conductors between them.


    No one even considered that someone would want to access a cable mid run, why would they, everything was installed from the switch and lighting points with the cables being fed through the conduits.


    Andy Betteridge
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