Rewiring Ceiling Light

[Rincewindwiz]

OK so I screwed up!
Went to replace my daughters ceiling fitment (old one yellow and paint spattered) expecting to detach the lamp, remove the old cable, attach the new cable and screw the rose into the existing ceiling fitment.

Good plan which failed miserably when the new rose failed to screw onto the old ceiling fitment. OK so I took a photo (turned out badly - out of focus) of the existing wiring; removed the old ceiling fitment, attached the new. redid the wires (3 cables 6 wires, 3 earth wires) and got it wrong.

Most of the light switches in the flat are all screwed up in that they activate other fittings!.

I plan to trace the wires to the switch (so at least I get those right) and hopefully the rest follow a standard ring main diagram. Is this the best I can do to unscramble this mess?

Thanks for any help

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Glued the bracket to the ceiling !!

Yes. she said the joist was on the edge of the cable whole in ceiling so put one wonky screw in joist and glued the other side of the metal bracket to the ceiling with superglue! I am secretly glad i am not fitting them now.... I regretted the job once i saw the extra cables and mismatched colouring. But why push 2 wires up in a hole the size of a 10pence piece? i had to cut a much bigger hole to pull them down. she didnt think they were needed apparently as the light came on and stayed on so thought issue was the switch!

 

[Squid]

Just got here,anything exciting missed?

Yeah, my light hearted jokes and wind ups are deemed not to be funny by the Kamp Komandant.

 

[telectrix]

Yeah, my light hearted jokes and wind ups are deemed not to be funny by the Kamp Komandant.

think you gotofflightly. ifi were the Kamp kommandment, you vould be taken out at dawn und shot, southern Svine.

 

[ipf]

think you gotofflightly. ifi were the Kamp kommandment, you vould be taken out at dawn und shot, southern Svine.

Ve haf vays ov making you pork.......

 

[Squid]

 

[JK-Electrical]

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