Curtains - wrong pole, help!

hermanmunster_3

when you take the spotlight off the wires will be exposed. you can then replace it with the ceiling rose .. makes your arms ache +++ sure you don't want to leave the spotlights????

zippychick

hermanmunster wrote: »

when you take the spotlight off the wires will be exposed. you can then replace it with the ceiling rose .. makes your arms ache +++ sure you don't want to leave the spotlights????

Check out that light baby! No, spotlight is going. It's ok , someone else is doing it :rotfl: (wonders what cake to bake friend ....)

zippychick

redruby wrote: »

Dont be daft, its great that you are having a go, but like westcoastscot said dont go fiddling with electricity I did once , and got a shock

Been scared of electricity since when on school. I learnt how to wire a plug, tried it at home and couldn't be bothered putting the back on so plugged it in as it was, palm down on the open plug while i plugged it in. I was only 12 though.:eek::o:D:rotfl:

zippychick

ok..... my friend said he can't put lights up. Is it realy that hard to do myself? I know how to turn the mains off and stuff.....

westcoastscot

Hi zippychick, that light is really lovely. I emailed my partner to ask him, he says you have to know what you're doing or it can be dangerous - if it was a similar style you could mark the wires but as it's totally different you would need to know which wire was which. Sounds like you'll need to find someone who knows what's what!

redruby

zippychick wrote: »

ok..... my friend said he can't put lights up. Is it realy that hard to do myself? I know how to turn the mains off and stuff.....

I really would not do it yourself, its just not worth the risk, maybe someone else can do it for a cake or beer :beer:

Owain_Moneysaver

Changing the light is not terribly difficult but there is a big gotcha to watch out for.

Your ceiling point will probably have 3 twin cables to it - one cable with the power supply, one taking the power on to the next light, and one to the switch.

Do NOT wire all 3 blacks (blues if the wiring's really modern) together. One of those blacks is the live from the switch (it should really have a little red sleeve or tape on it) and it goes to one side of the bulbholder. If you do wire all the blacks together you will blow your circuit fuse or trip the circuit breaker.

There's a diagram at
http://www.letsfixit.co.uk/html/electrical_faq.html
but it doesn't show a switch with red/black wiring.

zippychick

I n eed to think. No one here will be held responsible :P