Hello
I hired an electrician to alter wiring for my new kitchen. My house uses a normal lighting radial looped in at ceiling roses.
We added new plinth lights, switched separately from the ceiling light but in the same box using a 2G switch. Instead of extending the radial into the new light, he took a perm live and neutral from the existing ceiling rose to the switch. The perm live was daisy chained into the common of both switches and the lights were single pole switched as normal. The neutral came into the box, was joined in a choc block, and then went out again in a 3C+E to the new lights.
Could you explain why you would do this rather than extending the radial? I didn't ask him because I didn't see it until he had left (and I had paid him).
Thanks
bsr
I hired an electrician to alter wiring for my new kitchen. My house uses a normal lighting radial looped in at ceiling roses.
We added new plinth lights, switched separately from the ceiling light but in the same box using a 2G switch. Instead of extending the radial into the new light, he took a perm live and neutral from the existing ceiling rose to the switch. The perm live was daisy chained into the common of both switches and the lights were single pole switched as normal. The neutral came into the box, was joined in a choc block, and then went out again in a 3C+E to the new lights.
Could you explain why you would do this rather than extending the radial? I didn't ask him because I didn't see it until he had left (and I had paid him).
Thanks
bsr
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