Prefered way to install ceiling lights

[ekmdgrf]

There's an old saying that if you should ask 10 cooks how to poach an egg, then you'll get 33 different answers. In a similar arrangement, there seems to be many and varied solutions to powering a light fitting. Let's start by removing the ye olde ceiling rose from the equation, as it doesn't compliment the light in question. I guess that leaves pulling a bundle of cables through the ceiling and attempting to choc block the lot in the lack of space available or terminating it inside a maintenance free junction box in the ceiling void? So, in summary: how do people prefer to wire their lights these days?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Depends on the type of light.

 

[flameport]

Also depends on how the circuit is wired.
Might only be a single cable at the light position. Ideally a 3 core + earth.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

I choose the must logic/practical method that suits the situation.
Sometimes loop in at ceiling, sometimes at switch, horse for courses.

 

[sparkwright]

Loop-in at the switch is the preferred way for me nowadays for new work, as non-ceiling rose lights can be awkward so fewer cables are desirable. Since deeper switch boxes are fitted now to allow for dimmers, there's room to loop-in at the switch.

On regular domestic rewires, I prefer to loop-in at the light, as the existing switch conduits are narrow.

Many installations will be a combination of both methods, sometimes with junction box method as well.