very good video with clear instructions. I'm currently sitting in the dark as am having my first experience with a old ceiling rose. have four cables to deal with! Thanks for the video
Thank you ...er...why have I an. earth wire in my line block? ... and why does light work ? An how come I've got 6!!! wires coming into my ceiling rose? and ...
Thank you for this excellent video. I have a question. All the wires in the ceiling Rose are bare with the light switch being turned off. When turning on the power at the consumer unit the only wire that is live is a neutral wire. Is this because this neutral is connected to the consumer unit. Note: My house is wired with single wire cables coloured red and black (not twin and earth). The live supply (loop) goes to the light switch. A switched live then goes to the ceiling rose. This ceiling rose feeds another red and black cable to another light in the same room. There is a further 2 neutral wires in the ceiling rose, one of which is live as mentioned above. Thank you.
If I was adding additional lights to this switch, would I take the twin cable to the line side? So when I operate the switch it switches the other light off? And then if I was taking a feed to another room then I would take it off the loop? Feed in, feed out & and all other lights on this switch off the line?
Fantastic clear video thank you very much. I have wired up quite a few of the white roses in the past. A friend wants a fancy chrome finish rise and pendant set fitting. Do all roses have enough terminals to enable the first scenario with the looped connections? It's just often in the descriptions I can't see it mentioned what terminals are provided. I don't want to buy one and find it only has enough terminals for the second scenario. Any help would be greatly received. Thank you
Buying the chrome unit from a specifically electrical retailer might well mean they know the answer & can tell you. Otherwise they should have sufficient blocks - But with the stuff coming in from abroad its not guaranteed. If there is sufficient space inside the chrome 'crown' plastic coated conectors may be your solution? Being metal the crown should have continuity to the earth wiring.
How about telling us what length screws are used in case a total piece of shit sparky leaves the job unfinshed and you aint got anymore wod to pay another jerk so you gotta do it yourself any pointers people?
When you go to install new fittings and the new fitting doesn't have the same wiring components inside! 🤦♂️ UK bought as well! Lousy design of fittings.
I purchased my new light fitting from Argos, all ready to change and like you mentioned, it’s all bloody different. Luckily for videos like these that help a ton
Very helpful particularly when the professional electrician who put in the lights in the first place was putting two wires in one aperture when they didn’t have to. Gave me confidence to do the job properly.
I have a new light fitting which is quite easy but the wires coming from the ceiling are confusing me. Three wires two with brown, blue and earth and the other has two brown and one earth. Im totally stumped im sure one of the blue cables should have a brown sleeve but none of them have, so i keep wiring it wrong. when electric turned back on the light does work but not by the pull cord switch it stays on !!!!! Can anyone help please?
Now I better understand all the wires in the rose. Had to buy a new pendant due to an accident whist playing on the VR headset. I put my had through the glass shade and ripped the bulb out of the bayonet fitting damaging it. Got a complete fitting for just over £1 at Screwfix with the intention of just replacing the pendant. But your video gave me the confidence to completely replace it as the old one was quite old. The only issue I had was the wires didn't have much length to them and the 3 earth's instead of being individually sleeved were all in the same sleeve so took a bit of time to get them just right. Thank you
Hi please can you help i have a dimmer light fixture. Is this differnet to a normal light fixture? Please can you show how to attach a dimmer light thank you 😊
Very clear and understandable. I have a ceiling rose, which clips into the ceiling base plate. The dependent wires have a bayonet fitting into the rose. The base plate wiring has brown and earth wires separately into the two Line holes, two red to two of the middle three holes and one blue to one of the neutral three holes. Does this seem correct?
and also helped me work out how to fix the previous owner's bodged installation of another light. It was very useful to go through and understand what each wire did. There wasn't an easy way of working out which was the switching cable though - it would be good to know what to look out for.
