Recent content by Silver89

Excellent! Thanks very much! I did not know this at all! But it seems so freakin' obvious now. I've never dealt with emergency lights before. I used to live in an old manor house with prehistoric electrics before we moved here.

Don't get me started, it seems like every other thing in this house has been botched. Beautiful house but, as it was bedsits a few owners ago, I guess the landlords never wanted to shell much out for getting work done.

Thanks for the suggestion, that's a nice idea. I'll bring the wires down and run them with the ones on the right. I tried to kill the current running through the EM cables today by switch off everything on my fuse box but this didn't work. And by the look of this; they aren't connected...

Hi all! First-time poster, long-time lurker; I've a dilemma. We've recently moved into a house that, at some point in its past was bedsits and has emergency lighting on each of its 3 storeys. On the top floor, dangling from the ceiling are some rather mysterious electrics. 4 grey live, mains...