Recent content by bertram

Ok. Thanks for all the advice and your time.

Thanks for the reply. The light wiring must go directly to the back of the switched socket, the wiring is hidden behind a very old timber wall beam, when I remove the light I can see the wiring dropping down towards the switched socket. Unfortunately the beam is about a foot thick and is...

Apologies about the brackets - did not realise you put a great store on that sort of thing. OK. 1) the wall light feed/cable seems to be taken from below and that makes me think it is from a wall mounted switch socket that is directly below it. i am worried that the wall light...

i have a wall light with its own pull cord which functions ok. i would like to remove the wall light and use the existing cabling( a spur maybe ).... to connect to a mains halogen ( 4 bulb unit) on to a ceiling beam. i would like to insert a switch between the halogen unit and whatever...