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Extending 3 light switches to New Positions
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<blockquote data-quote="kentster" data-source="post: 153362" data-attributes="member: 5698"><p>Hi All</p><p></p><p>First post so go easy on me.......I'm not a qualified electrician and am only part way through my course, although now my family think i'm the 1st person to come to for questions (which i'll be posting on here)</p><p></p><p>We have a building which used to be an open office (15m x 15m ish) and at the top of the stairs is a 3 gang light switch to control the 3 rows of lights. This is being stud walled into 3 seperate offices and therefore all 3 switches need to be split and moved into new positions. Its an old building and not using loop in and we can't pull the ceiling down so what i was wondering is if we can simply join a new piece of T&amp;E to where the current cable connects and run this to the new location?</p><p></p><p>If we can do the above are there any recommended joint boxes to use as these will end up being left in the whole that the 3 gang switch is now and plastered over.</p><p></p><p>One last thing is that it looks like they've used a link cable between each live on the switches and all the neutrals look to just be wound together with a plastic cap over them. I'll take some pics tomorrow, but hoping to get an answer on just extending the cable so this can be run in before the plasterboard gets put up at the weekend</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kentster, post: 153362, member: 5698"] Hi All First post so go easy on me.......I'm not a qualified electrician and am only part way through my course, although now my family think i'm the 1st person to come to for questions (which i'll be posting on here) We have a building which used to be an open office (15m x 15m ish) and at the top of the stairs is a 3 gang light switch to control the 3 rows of lights. This is being stud walled into 3 seperate offices and therefore all 3 switches need to be split and moved into new positions. Its an old building and not using loop in and we can't pull the ceiling down so what i was wondering is if we can simply join a new piece of T&E to where the current cable connects and run this to the new location? If we can do the above are there any recommended joint boxes to use as these will end up being left in the whole that the 3 gang switch is now and plastered over. One last thing is that it looks like they've used a link cable between each live on the switches and all the neutrals look to just be wound together with a plastic cap over them. I'll take some pics tomorrow, but hoping to get an answer on just extending the cable so this can be run in before the plasterboard gets put up at the weekend [/QUOTE]
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