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Hey all!
Here we go… so we’re fitting a new kitchen. Massive layout change, new ceiling, new doorways. First, I must hold my hands up here; i carefully traced around the existing wiring that was in The ceiling space (once the old plasterboard was down), and I cut out a load of old wiring that was either just hanging around, or unnecessary. It is quite possible that this is where I nobbed it up.
Anyway, I’ve fitted new Down lights (partly fitted, so far). All good - set of 8 4.5W LED’s, wired into the old ceiling rose. I have also fitted new wiring for the switches; they’re all in different places now. All was well. New lights work fine, and I’m crackin on putting the plaster board back up.
Worth mentioning that I’ve also changed the conservatory lights (theyre wall mounted LED things) over to the main downstairs lighting ring. They were previously bodged onto the garage circuit (probs due to ease of access).
Now the other half comes in and switches the lights on in the lounge. My new down lights go dim, and only 2 of the 6 Down lights in the lounge come on. A bit moaning occurs. She then goes into the conservatory and whacks those lights on. Again very dim. I switch my new lights off, conservatory now fine. Lounge lights okay too. She switches hallway lights on, conservatory lights start winking at me.
In summary, it appears I’ve tried to undo a previous owners birds nest and made my life really hard. Or, I’ve been a total twonk and done something stupid (that I can’t figure out).
Please, there must be some clever people out there who can humour me enough to provide some advice? I can’t be overloading the circuit at 4.5W/unit, surely? Although, I could have done by adding the conservatory to the ring as well (but that’s only 3 LEDs too)? Or…. Something else?
Help!
Here we go… so we’re fitting a new kitchen. Massive layout change, new ceiling, new doorways. First, I must hold my hands up here; i carefully traced around the existing wiring that was in The ceiling space (once the old plasterboard was down), and I cut out a load of old wiring that was either just hanging around, or unnecessary. It is quite possible that this is where I nobbed it up.
Anyway, I’ve fitted new Down lights (partly fitted, so far). All good - set of 8 4.5W LED’s, wired into the old ceiling rose. I have also fitted new wiring for the switches; they’re all in different places now. All was well. New lights work fine, and I’m crackin on putting the plaster board back up.
Worth mentioning that I’ve also changed the conservatory lights (theyre wall mounted LED things) over to the main downstairs lighting ring. They were previously bodged onto the garage circuit (probs due to ease of access).
Now the other half comes in and switches the lights on in the lounge. My new down lights go dim, and only 2 of the 6 Down lights in the lounge come on. A bit moaning occurs. She then goes into the conservatory and whacks those lights on. Again very dim. I switch my new lights off, conservatory now fine. Lounge lights okay too. She switches hallway lights on, conservatory lights start winking at me.
In summary, it appears I’ve tried to undo a previous owners birds nest and made my life really hard. Or, I’ve been a total twonk and done something stupid (that I can’t figure out).
Please, there must be some clever people out there who can humour me enough to provide some advice? I can’t be overloading the circuit at 4.5W/unit, surely? Although, I could have done by adding the conservatory to the ring as well (but that’s only 3 LEDs too)? Or…. Something else?
Help!
