I am currently fully renovating property. I was a 16th edition sparky at one point mostly did full rewires and adding full new rings etc. I have been asked to use a different sparky as he is someone's friend, old boy but seems nice enough. He started some first fix today and I noticed all his cables are going into the back boxes for the lighting. There isn't a single ceiling rose in the whole house I will add so LED spots everywhere. I would normally use a junction box, pull a feed to the light switch then a spur off to the lights as would my normal sparky. This chap is going to terminate everything into those lever wire connectors and link out for a feed to the switch and then onto the light all of this will be contained inside the patress/back box. Is this acceptable ? What method would you use? Regards
Sounds like he is using the ''loop in the box technique'' you know loop in the box and a cable/s going to light fitting/s - excellent, its what I do and saves hassle at light position/s. Surely people dont loop in t rose nowadays?
I am with the 'old boy' on this one. Feeding the switch makes life simpler for wiring up the spots, just SL and N looping round them all. Neutrals are joined in the back box. This isn't to do with any particular edition of the wiring Regs. its just a way of doing it. If you are always using jb's then take a tip from this guy, he seems to know what he is doing.
As above...It's far better to feed the switch than some JB that could be hidden behind a random down light that you have to go hunting for in the event of a fault.
Thanks very much for the replys. The property is handed over to a charity after completion and has an a nightmare of an inspection process for everything! so needed to make sure that it is perfectly acceptable and most importantly not out of the norm of working process. Regards
Doubt I can do that in my place as have metal conduit going down to the light switches about 20mmin diameter I would guess and would struggle to get 3 cables through it.
I used to to wire in loop in loop out at the lights but for the last few years been going to switch it easier especially for testing but then I suppose it depends on the job and routes
With the demise of ceiling roses and pendants, this method has become more popular, nothing wrong with it, I use it often, just need a deep box and tidy wiring.
I remember watching a sparks on a job struggling to get his head around an intermediate switch that was fed
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