hi all new to this but thought you would get a laugh from this one. my sister( well off and lives in posh house) needed to change a ceiling rose. H aving changed a few in my time a set to work with a will. turned off power,had my son ( appentice aged 12 at time ) standing by to hand up tools etc.
unscrewed old rose and found.......16 cables running into old rose!!!
now i should have stopped there but noooooooo. carefully labeled each cable and had son write down exact wiring layout. four hours of experimenting later i could not work out what some of the wires did.
I admited defeat and returned wires to orginal state. sis called in sparks who had done job a year before. turned out that some of the cables had been looped to the same fitting twice!!!
moral of story...even experts make mistakes lol
unscrewed old rose and found.......16 cables running into old rose!!!
now i should have stopped there but noooooooo. carefully labeled each cable and had son write down exact wiring layout. four hours of experimenting later i could not work out what some of the wires did.
I admited defeat and returned wires to orginal state. sis called in sparks who had done job a year before. turned out that some of the cables had been looped to the same fitting twice!!!
moral of story...even experts make mistakes lol