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Thank you both - all working now

I am replacing a light switch. The red/black wires in the wall are quite short, and the new switch has the connectors in a different spot to the old switch. I can wire the switch fine but one of the wires is too short to let me attach the face plate to the wall with both screws. The wire is too...

lol.. thanks everyone - i took them back and got a refund.

no, there is almost no text in the instructions, certainly nothing about hard-wiring

I think i've managed to put them in my 'album' here: //www.diynot.com/network/notsohandy999/albums/2863 When i said 'junction box' earlier, i now think i meant 'terminal block'.. i meant the small plastic unit that lets you connect pairs of wires. :oops:

Hi, I bought some wall lights to put up, but taking them out of the box, i see now that they have a long electrical cable with a plug at the end. The implication being that they're designed to be pluged into a normal wall socket. However, since the lights i had just taken off were wired in...