Hi all.
Wondered if anyone could help with some advise on the best way to route new wiring for down lights.
Just moved into new house and are having the ceilings skimmed in a couple of weeks. Prior to having this done I want to replace the single centered light fitting with some down lights.
I've fitted and wired down lights before so that side of it I'm fine with, but before I was putting the plaster board up to so I could put the wiring in place before the ceiling went up.
In this case the only wiring up there is from the center light fitting. This is ample to run the down lights I will fit, but the bit I cant quite work out the best solution is getting the wiring around the ceiling for the different down lights.
I'm only fitting 6 down lights, and will daisy chain them, but what is the best way when trying to create minimum repair work when routing wiring.
Upstairs is new carpeted so I didn't really want to go and lift new carpet and then floor boards up to route the wiring from above, and will need to be able to get wiring through across joists. Don't really want to chop out bits of plaster board ceiling from below to allow me to route the wiring either.
So the question is, is there an easy way or better way? The other rooms downstairs will have the same thing done to them too so will have the same situation in living room, kitchen and hallway.
Thanks
Wondered if anyone could help with some advise on the best way to route new wiring for down lights.
Just moved into new house and are having the ceilings skimmed in a couple of weeks. Prior to having this done I want to replace the single centered light fitting with some down lights.
I've fitted and wired down lights before so that side of it I'm fine with, but before I was putting the plaster board up to so I could put the wiring in place before the ceiling went up.
In this case the only wiring up there is from the center light fitting. This is ample to run the down lights I will fit, but the bit I cant quite work out the best solution is getting the wiring around the ceiling for the different down lights.
I'm only fitting 6 down lights, and will daisy chain them, but what is the best way when trying to create minimum repair work when routing wiring.
Upstairs is new carpeted so I didn't really want to go and lift new carpet and then floor boards up to route the wiring from above, and will need to be able to get wiring through across joists. Don't really want to chop out bits of plaster board ceiling from below to allow me to route the wiring either.
So the question is, is there an easy way or better way? The other rooms downstairs will have the same thing done to them too so will have the same situation in living room, kitchen and hallway.
Thanks