Those choc blocks should really be replaced with maintenance-free junction boxes.
Installing new mains Smoke Detector - Earth test
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Odd number of cores?
maybe it's been wired as a point in the lighting circuit, as opposed to a branch from said circuit or a dedicated circuit
Good call - on closer inspection there are two 2c+e coming in and one 3c+e going out - you can't see the 3rd red wire on the picture its hidden behind the others, and the two CPCs from the 2c+e wires are in a single sheath. I suspect the other 2c+e is going to the burglar alarm as that's on the same circuit.
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Doing it correctly requires a dry liner box in the ceiling, and the smoke alarm fixed to that instead, just shoving the chock block into the gap is bad practice.
They will match a round dry-liner box. They are made to do that!
Round Aico bases fit a square dry-line box.
But more to the point, the Aico bases have a wiring compartment anyway which would easily accommodate that ceiling wiring.
But more to the point, the Aico bases have a wiring compartment anyway which would easily accommodate that ceiling wiring.
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