Recent content by DaveyP

Thanks Matthew....

Ding - I might give the book a whirl then (hope its not got the missing pages in the middle) .. The light fittings are cheap and cheerful plastic with the only metal being the screws :) As for starting the job in hand ive got the mrs to thank for that who decided to spruce the place up...

Just as an aside the landing light is on a two way switch. One switch downstairs and one on landing. This just has the two wires from one cable (1 x red, 1 x black) however there does to be another red cable which appears to be folded over on itself and taped off (looks like its never been...

Ill try and post some tomorrow DIYDandy (monday)

Thanks for that. The only difference between that s/bed rose (working) and the other s/bed rose is that there appears to be one more live cable than the non working rose. There is no neutral cable (black) with this. The working rose has 3 pair of cables and one spare (4 x red, 3 x black)...

Dingbat, thanks for the constructive reply (and thanks for spoiling the ending of the book you recommended.) If no one replaces ceiling roses with ceiling roses anymore what do people use? As for the cosmetic approach this is a cheap and cheerful fix until i can get someone in to rewire the...

Correct, there are no earth wires ... (i know the house could do with rewiring but thats for another day) Yes, Mbed, landing and bathroom all replaced ok. (however lights now not working) S/Bed 1 which is working i did note have a spare live wire on its own (does not appear to be a neutral...

Hello All, Right, im trying to replace the ceiling roses for the upstairs lights. Set up as follows 3 Bedrooms Bathroom Landing area Master bedroom, Bathroom and landing all have just one live wire and one live neutral wire (all old colours: black and red) 2 other bedrooms have...