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<blockquote data-quote="Evans Electric" data-source="post: 453959" data-attributes="member: 1408"><p>As above , make sure you buy a plaster rose with big enough flat bit in the centre so you can screw the ceiling rose base to it . </p><p></p><p>Seeing the pics I'd guess there is no joint box in the ceiling .</p><p></p><p>You say the light worked fine before you took it down so the problem can only be ;- </p><p></p><p>1) The red or black in connectors perhaps connected onto the insulation &amp; not the copper.</p><p></p><p>2) The flex connected onto the insulation &amp; not the copper in the connectors.</p><p></p><p>3) The flex not connected properly in the lampholder.</p><p></p><p>4) The lampholder is faulty. ( unlikely but...) </p><p></p><p>5) The lamp is duff . </p><p></p><p>6) The switch needs checking now you have replaced it . </p><p></p><p>7) Without a tester you working in the dark ..physically and metorphorically . </p><p></p><p>8) I doubt you have "pulled" the wires going into the ceiling as there is no reason for a junction box , but there could possibly be one there , with those two wires sticking out of it , can you see up there ? </p><p></p><p>9) Don't fit plaster rose until light is working . BTW </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evans Electric, post: 453959, member: 1408"] As above , make sure you buy a plaster rose with big enough flat bit in the centre so you can screw the ceiling rose base to it . Seeing the pics I'd guess there is no joint box in the ceiling . You say the light worked fine before you took it down so the problem can only be ;- 1) The red or black in connectors perhaps connected onto the insulation & not the copper. 2) The flex connected onto the insulation & not the copper in the connectors. 3) The flex not connected properly in the lampholder. 4) The lampholder is faulty. ( unlikely but...) 5) The lamp is duff . 6) The switch needs checking now you have replaced it . 7) Without a tester you working in the dark ..physically and metorphorically . 8) I doubt you have "pulled" the wires going into the ceiling as there is no reason for a junction box , but there could possibly be one there , with those two wires sticking out of it , can you see up there ? 9) Don't fit plaster rose until light is working . BTW [/QUOTE]
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