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Yes I was stupid to think I could do it without never doing it before. As soon as I took the old light fitting off I realised I did not know what I was doing. The instructions with the light does make it sound simple to do when it's not. As soon as I took the old light off I got information on...

I have to admit I have never done anything with electrics before. When I purchased my light the instructions made it seem simple to do. Once I started it was more complicated then I thought so I did get information on how to do it properly. Instructions are not always that clear and sometimes it...

Flameport - that's spot on, thanks for your help. Ban-all-shed - the diagram within the instructions was misleading to put it mildly. The ambiguity between black being neutral, but live in the context of the switched live wiring was what we found confusing. The only problem we encountered was...

Hi ban all sheds, thank you for all your non helpful comments. No I do know nothing about electrical work and that is why I am trying to help some on here!!!!

Hi Flameport thanks for your help that's great.

Hi thanks for the that link it was really helpful. The only thing I can see that I haven't done as they said is to keep the 3 red wires together. I have just wired them separately into a block. Could it possibly be that?

Hi, I did wire it wrong to start with but it should be wired correctly now. I could try and put a picture on here but not until tomorrow as i'm at work. It was quite complicated to wire as I had 3 sets of wires in the ceiling. Each wire had a live (red), Earth (Yellow&green) and neutral (Black)...

Hi, I replaced the light in my front room. After changing the light all the rest of the lights in my flat have now stopped working apart from my hall light. The only things I touched was the wiring for the light in the front room and the fuse box. Would anyone have any idea why the rest of...