On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 20:51:10 UTC, wrote:

I forgot to add at this point, "provided that all three conductors
carry on to the end and are all clamped together under the screw in
your fitting": it's *not* remotely safe practice for them to be just
twisted together and to have just one extending into the fitting.

A *fitting*? Luxury!

Just replaced all the ceiling wiring in our lounge (four fittings
dangling from various parts of the ceiling). Did the last one on
Saturday (the most difficult as it's under the bath 'upstairs'.

Also the most horrific. An amazing pink aluminium 'shade' with a plastic
concentric ring thing at the bottom. Thin two core black flex with a
black plasticky cone covering the ceiling rose, and black plastic
grubscrew holding it in place on the flex....not quite at the top.
Peered underneath to find a a mass of wiring. FOUR T+E cables, one with
red outer sheath. Loads of ceiling paint splattered over a choc block,
three Screwits (!) and a load of earth wires twisted together. And some
insulation tape sticking the flex to the L and N.

Bad enough. After I'd removed it all, I remembered what I *hadn't*
removed. Securing screws. Because there weren't any. Weight of fitting
taken on those two taped joints, and the cables. No wonder the plastic
cover didn't reach the ceiling - the cables had pulled through the hole.

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