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Hi All! Yes the Maestor in the ceiling is def earthed! So this is all great news and thank you very much for this help it saves me an electrician! Yes shame they don’t make those anymore so useful… glad I have a spare also! Thanks again and Happy Easter all

Thank you Randomgrinch, this is good to know, so you think the Earth and metal rose of the new fitting can be discarded… and the that earth does not need to connect to the base of the MaEstero (the slide out bit). I think the Maestro is metallic , the top bit attached to the ceiling has the...

Thank you everybody! The flex is two core down to the lamp. attached photos - but the lamp fitting looks metal and I will put a shade on which is definitely metal. It would be easiest to just connect the two core flex straight into the Maestro , but I want to be sure that is safe? Perhaps...

two photos, ring loop end of earth wire, and (2) end that goes to the ceiling rose (Maestro detachable base as in earlier photo)

Hi Eric, My fitting looks exactly like yours, so is it just a matter of pulling through the earth wire and then putting the ring loop of the new earth wire where that hook is? (This is what I was thinking, but not sure if the ring loop will be secure on there? Thanks so much this is really...

Hi, I hope someone can advise. I have a pendant light attached to my Maestro Plug in Ceiling Rose, which lets me detach the pendant for cleaning etc. I now want to change the pendant light, but using the same ceiling rose. When I detach the base, it has the obvious place for earth, live and...