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Hiding Wagos in ceiling void

Stephen Hill

I have a light fitting in a loft room - it is a set of positionable G9 lights located in the ridge, and I have discovered a mess of choc-block shoved into the ceiling void, so want to fix this.  The cables terminating at that light fitting are: incoming power, outgoing power to other lights, and the cable to the wall switch.  Unfortunately there isn't enough room above the plasterboard to fit a Wago box, and there isn't enough space in the light itself to fit the connectors, so I'm looking for ideas for how to do this as a neat job?  Would it be acceptable to put a dry lining box into the ceiling with plastic blank plate to house some Wago connectors, and screw the light fitting to the blank plate?

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    put a dry lining box into the ceiling with plastic blank plate to house some Wago connectors, and screw the light fitting to the blank plate?
    Yes, if the fitting is light enough. Even if not socket boxes and cover plates make can be used as  'accessible from below' junction boxes in rooms under flat roofs and so on. Not the most elegant, but quite handy sometimes, in less obvious places. also the plasterboard mounting round "conduit" boxes can fit under a large ceiling rose with a flatter cover plate.  
    And there are very slim junction boxes  or even smaller for such situations as well that can post into the void through a slot behind a fitting 

    regards Mike.

  • 0 in reply to mapj1

    Good point - I'd just assumed a round dry-lining box for a ceiling (with a plastic round conduit box lid as a cover)- you very rarely see square/rectangular anything on ceilings - as they'd look very odd unless kept parallel with the walls, and you can't use anything simple like a spirit level to get the angle right on a horizontal ceiling,

       - Andy,

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    Good point - I'd just assumed a round dry-lining box for a ceiling (with a plastic round conduit box lid as a cover)- you very rarely see square/rectangular anything on ceilings - as they'd look very odd unless kept parallel with the walls, and you can't use anything simple like a spirit level to get the angle right on a horizontal ceiling,

       - Andy,

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  • 0 in reply to AJJewsbury

    And these really big round plate things can be used behind a ceiling rose when you have had to chew up the plaster to fit blocks of wood or something to spread the load or move things over a bit to reach the joists. (they are nearly 6" diameter and intended to cover holes left by  fire alarms.)

    There is always a way out - it depends on the customer's tolerance for 'ugly' . Maybe my seeing and doing odd job stuff in scout halls and so on sets some of my methods a notch below landlord cheap-out ;-)  I should also perhaps sound a note of caution that I don't do  wiring for a living these days, I may be a bit behind.
    Mike.

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