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Like a pull cord switch for bathrooms?
DIY bods in here - redundant light switch
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Like a pull cord switch for bathrooms?
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How far into your apprenticeship are you?
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whats an apprenticeship?
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( |-| |2 ][ $;13731597 said:
Nah, the pullcord unit is just a switch, the rose has the cabling in it.
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Thought it was a bit odd that you started training at 14 
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you do know i baiting you?
Ahh the old "Damn, I look like an idiot so I'll pretend I was joking" trick.
you do know i baiting you?
Everyones excuse now-a-days on a forum.
The lights that exist now are connected to a different switch, one of those dimmer switch things, which is just a couple of feet to the left of the pictured (now redundant) light switch.
( |-| |2 ][ $;13731597 said:
No I don't think so as we've said I think it's an old light fitting that would have at one point dangled from the ceiling.
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Ahh the old "Damn, I look like an idiot so I'll pretend I was joking" trick.
thats about right. lol
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I actually think a switch looks better than those blanking plates. When we moved in here we randomly had a phone socket on the landing at about switch height. I got a blanking plate but it just looked odd to be honest. We've since decorated and I covered it up with ply and then filled it.
Right, ok thanks guys! lol
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I'm right in guessing two lights have been taken down? With it being a double switch and the cabling seems to run to the right in the ceiling space, to another rose?
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It looks as though a light at some time has been removed or never actually fitted when the house was built or rewired.
Just make sure you wire it up the same as the switch and you should be OK, and yes choc block is a standard term for a connector block.
Just make sure you wire it up the same as the switch and you should be OK, and yes choc block is a standard term for a connector block.
You're right it is a double switch, I can follow the wire off into the distance, but it seems to dissappear somewhere upwards further on. So I have no idea what that would connect to.
This did used to be a big old house once upon a time, so who knows perhaps I control the upstairs flats lights, lol
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Just be sure to keep the cables in there own terminals and it'll be fine.
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WTF are you on about. Is that not what i just said
Edit. Choc block, not choc box
I'm a qualified sparky.
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Soldato
Its probably conected to next doors lights, sending them Barmy with lights flickering.
Personaly i would use
CHOCOLATE BLOCK ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR
Then the blanking plate, thats what i did in my parents hall.
When we had council fitting new heating system we had a redundant socket, Plasterer decided to remove it poke wires inside wall and plaster, im sitting on pc and lights the lot went off, went down and hes franticaly trying to unfill the hole " CLOWN"
EDIT: Just remember if you are going to have a jolly about with it all get the corect rating of hardware, dont want a new post saying damn house caught fire
Personaly i would use
CHOCOLATE BLOCK ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR
Then the blanking plate, thats what i did in my parents hall.
When we had council fitting new heating system we had a redundant socket, Plasterer decided to remove it poke wires inside wall and plaster, im sitting on pc and lights the lot went off, went down and hes franticaly trying to unfill the hole " CLOWN"
EDIT: Just remember if you are going to have a jolly about with it all get the corect rating of hardware, dont want a new post saying damn house caught fire
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