Recent content by benjique

cheers guys......any other tips?????, where will the transformer be?..in the ceiling void?

Hi, I have recently moved house and in my new dining room it has 3 ceiling spot lights randomly spaced. Once turned on they're fine but after about 5 minutes they go out?. I flick the switch and nothing happens....they then will come back on after maybe 5 minutes but this process is repeated...

depends on so many things but I'd allow half a day. If this is in a house then the planing would usually be done outside so as not to create too much mess inside and then have to carry the door back in to offer it into the opening....there will usually be very little room to manouvre due to...

Not convinced it's timber, looks like an oak laminate to me, maybe wrong, looks like it's been laid on 2 x 1" par too, ok it may have been treated but i doubt it. Should have used lathe if it had to be 1". I still say that board should have been laid direct to the deck rather than on timbers...

they aren't floor boards though are they? that's laminate isn't it? some of that stuff is only around 10mm thick, maybe less, not to be fitted on batons like that, it's bound to bend inbetween. as said, i'd pull it up and start again

done it, works a treat, now as bright as my centre light and once again i'm unscathed lol. cheers again for all your help guys. Really appreciate it.

yeah, tomorrow, I'll get one from a lad at work, I'm pretty tempted to wire it as per the other light and flick the switch...what's the implications if it's wrong?, considering that for the past 24 hours it's had a neutral going to the live anyway?

i have no multimeter, should have bought one but haven't

just looked at the other light, neutral is on the left, live on the right, they'd be the same wouldn't they?

not a massive help tbh, just says connect the live to the live, neutral to neutral etc

that's the thing mate, they're both white, apart from the earth, the other light was marked L and N with a sticker but this has probably fallen off, shall i just wire it and see?

it's a screw in type

right, slight problem, they aren't labelled. I know which is the earth but if i get live and neutral the wrong way round will it just trip out?

right mate, just found the reds, they were buried in a lump of paster board adhesive. they are in a little chock block, so now i have two red, black and earths, i just connect those to my live, neutral and earths on my light, yeah?

well, i haven't added any wiring. I took the old lights off, the wires came from the wall into a connecter block, so i taped that up, then, when my new lights arrived i remove the block and put the wires into the connector block on my new lights I have removed one bulb and now nothing...