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Removing unwanted wall lights
I have a wall light on a wall in my house but want to remove it and
dont want to put another one up in its place. Does anyone know what I need to do to make the wires that are left hanging from the wall safe? Cheers Ian |
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ian wrote:
I have a wall light on a wall in my house but want to remove it and dont want to put another one up in its place. Does anyone know what I need to do to make the wires that are left hanging from the wall safe? Cheers Ian Take the floorboard up in the room above a cut the cable then bare the wires and put it on a junction box, put floorboards back down. Done. :-) Don't put connector blocks on the wires down stairs and plaster over it, someone might accidently drill or hang a pic or summat and go through cable. Arrrgh! |
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"ben" wrote in message... Take the floorboard up in the room above a cut the cable then bare the wires and put it on a junction box, put floorboards back down. Done. :-) Alternatively, lift floorboards in the room above, find out where the cables are wired into (ceiling rose or junction box) and disconnect them. -- Best Wishes Simon (aka Dark Angel) "Dark Angel's Realm of Horror" - http://www.realmofhorror.co.uk "Realm of Horror Radio" - http://www.live365.com/stations/313834 |
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ian explained on 06/09/2005 :
I have a wall light on a wall in my house but want to remove it and dont want to put another one up in its place. Does anyone know what I need to do to make the wires that are left hanging from the wall safe? Cheers Ian Trace the wires up the wall, under the floor to wherever the source of supply is. The floor boards will most likely show indications of having been lifted before, to orginally install them. Then disconnect them at the source.... Most likely this will be at the centre light in the same room. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.org |
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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
ian explained on 06/09/2005 : I have a wall light on a wall in my house but want to remove it and dont want to put another one up in its place. Does anyone know what I need to do to make the wires that are left hanging from the wall safe? Cheers Ian Trace the wires up the wall, under the floor to wherever the source of supply is. The floor boards will most likely show indications of having been lifted before, to orginally install them. Then disconnect them at the source.... Most likely this will be at the centre light in the same room. Reason I said put in a junction box is...he might need a supply at a later date? saves ****ing about undoing the ceiling rose wires, especially if it has a few wires going to it. :-) |
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ben used his keyboard to write :
Reason I said put in a junction box is...he might need a supply at a later date? saves ****ing about undoing the ceiling rose wires, especially if it has a few wires going to it. :-) ...and much easier to reconnect at the ceiling rose (assuming that is where it comes from), than lifting the floor baords to get at it if it is cut off there. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.org |
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On 6 Sep 2005 13:18:43 -0700, "ian" wrote:
I have a wall light on a wall in my house but want to remove it and dont want to put another one up in its place. Does anyone know what I need to do to make the wires that are left hanging from the wall safe? When I bought this place, there were some wall lights in the living room wired by two-core flex running diagonally under (just!) the plaster to the back of a 13A socket. You could get a nice glow on a neon screwdriver by touching the wall with the tip... :-( -- Frank Erskine |
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