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    Milwaukee M18 Fuel!

    I would say it is more about the bits than the torque of the drill. I use high quality Fisch auger bits for drilling out mortices and peg holes and the Milwaukee has no trouble with these. (I prefer to drill the waste out of stopped mortices rather than use my chain morticer in most cases.)...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    SOLVED Thanks for all the help. It was nothing to do with the smoke detector. In this new hole (where there will be a light fitting) three white T&E wires were fed from this "junction" (see pic if it loads). One supplied the redundant smoke detector and the other two run round the lights in...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    Thank you Tim. We have had the house for nearly 9 years and said in previous threads (I had one fault fining recently in room connected to this on) that we have worked our way through. Much of it is new and finished and was professionally rewired (where it was not new), though the electrician...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    Thank you. That doesn't answer my question though. A camera accessing the ceiling also exposes all risks. Removing the wires via existing holes also removes all risks. What is the logic for demolishing the ceiling if wires can be stripped out without that?
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    With respect, and thanks for the help, I don't see the logic of this. Here's why: There are two wires coming from a single MCB at the CU which is 7 or 8 metres away at its furthest point. These two wires feed only the two lighting circuits in this single room. I can readily identify L, N and...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    :-) That is a single trade approach. To do so adds about £1,000 of cost and 8 weeks to a refurb that my wife expects to be finished pronto. I have to make good my own mess. One problem is that round here plasterers are booked ages in advance. I am a hopeless plasterer, especially on...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    I meant that each new light fitting has a daisy chain joint box as part of the light fitting. The light fittings are astro mimima IP65 deep set units that take GU10s above a glass screen and dust seal. I don't actually need IP65 everywhere as it is a large room and most lights are not in a high...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    There was enough cable slack to remove all of the down lights without a problem. Four of them were connected to an opposite downlight within the same adjacent spaces between joists and those wires were easily pulled out without a problem and the ceiling holes repaired. By far the tightest...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    Thanks Tim. I will start there by taking a piece of ceiling out to see if I can locate a JB. The cable to the old detector does not move much and my guess is JB is probably very close. I've got to get wires across the joists anyway as there are three spots currently on the wrong circuit.
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    Hmm. Don't think so. It was a barn conversion back in the 80's (long before we bought it) and although I can see evidence of the old kitchen layout being altered / refurbed I can't see any evidence of a ceiling rose point, especially on the laundry side. However, you do make a good point as...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    Thanks. Yes, that is what I figured. If only I knew where the JBs are!
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    Thanks Tim. That's really helpful. I always habitually safely terminate everything with wagos anyway as soon as I disconnect and I have done that in the switch box and at the wires in the ceiling. I think I confused myself a bit as there seems to be T&E that is not from the lighting switch...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    No. Power fully isolated and dead tested using Megger TPT 420 (not the MFT). I intended to keep using the lights for the time being as it is a working area and it protects the new ones. Lights just pulled down to release the clips from the ceiling. This triggered the fault when I tried to...
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    Help needed again pls - Lighting fault tracing

    I need your help please once again in tracing a fault. Am DIY but not clueless. Converting former kitchen into 2 rooms: bathroom and laundry. The room had 24 cheapo ceiling spots, originally tungsten then 240v GU10 LEDs that I am replacing. Circuit spilt into two halves with two gang wall...
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    Milwaukee M18 Fuel!

    Another thumbs up for Milwaukee Fuel. I do quite a bit of oak timber framing and I need tools that will cut big holes in oak and drive temporary timberfix bolts. I've had 18v Mil Fuel drill and impact driver for 7 years. They have done a lot of work and I am still on the original 5aH batteries...
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    Bathroom ceiling spots recommendation

    This is such a helpful forum. Thanks guys. All really good stuff. I was unaware you could buy conversion plates to cover the ceiling holes. Those quickwire lights might satisfy what she wants. I'm not too fussed about speed of installation as no one is paying me to do it and I just take my...
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    Bathroom ceiling spots recommendation

    Thanks NbutD. I am dealing with a 60mm cut out currently but could deal with that by maing blanking plates. Will take a look at the ansell product.
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    Bathroom ceiling spots recommendation

    No chance Mike. It's an ex Kitchen and so there is a room above. No chance of altering the ceiling height and not worth the expense either just to fit some lights. I've got plenty of room to fit the lights within the void.

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