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Hopefully somebody might be able to make sense of my waffle.....
New house (to us)...we have an external wall light outside the kitchen door – it is on the downstairs lighting circuit and the first point of call from the consumer unit for the Live feed.
Originally this must have had a switched live from one of the switches on a two gang switch just inside the kitchen door – the switched live currently ends in a terminal block in the light housing as whoever fitted the current Dawn-Dusk light connected it, understandably I guess to the permanent live.
The live to the two gang switch also provides a live for the two way circuit for the kitchen light.
Something along the lines of Fig.1 attached (albeit wiring is actually red/black).
We don't really need/want the outside light as I have some new lighting going up so ideally I would like to pull these cables back, make a new connection for the circuit in a junction box above the ceiling and just take take a new live down to the switch for the kitchen light – only issue is access as the bathroom is above and that isn't currently on our “to do list”...so until it is when such a job would be much easier my best options appear to be fit a new light that's acceptable in appearance or perhaps just a suitably rated external junction box.
The cable tails out of the wall are pretty short though, could do with a clean and appear a little brittle – when I tried to clean one up and straighten it a little it just broke away making it even shorter !
As yet I haven't found a wall light with a housing with enough space so wonder if anybody might have any suggestions for an external light with a reasonable “back box” on it or a external junction box with just a back cable entry ?
As ever, thanks for any suggestions and input.
Rgds
Freddy
New house (to us)...we have an external wall light outside the kitchen door – it is on the downstairs lighting circuit and the first point of call from the consumer unit for the Live feed.
Originally this must have had a switched live from one of the switches on a two gang switch just inside the kitchen door – the switched live currently ends in a terminal block in the light housing as whoever fitted the current Dawn-Dusk light connected it, understandably I guess to the permanent live.
The live to the two gang switch also provides a live for the two way circuit for the kitchen light.
Something along the lines of Fig.1 attached (albeit wiring is actually red/black).
We don't really need/want the outside light as I have some new lighting going up so ideally I would like to pull these cables back, make a new connection for the circuit in a junction box above the ceiling and just take take a new live down to the switch for the kitchen light – only issue is access as the bathroom is above and that isn't currently on our “to do list”...so until it is when such a job would be much easier my best options appear to be fit a new light that's acceptable in appearance or perhaps just a suitably rated external junction box.
The cable tails out of the wall are pretty short though, could do with a clean and appear a little brittle – when I tried to clean one up and straighten it a little it just broke away making it even shorter !
As yet I haven't found a wall light with a housing with enough space so wonder if anybody might have any suggestions for an external light with a reasonable “back box” on it or a external junction box with just a back cable entry ?
As ever, thanks for any suggestions and input.
Rgds
Freddy