Re: Bodges
When I wired our extension 3 years ago, the supervising electrician advised that the lighting circuit had to be of daisy chain configuration rather than the spider I had proposed. He said that it simplifies fault finding and allows a continuity check to be made at the last fitting of the daisy chain. The benefit of this was demonstrated a few months later when the neigbour's wife asked me for help as the lighting circuit breaker kept tripping. I did investigate by removing a couple of ceiling roses to see if I could isolate the offending part of the circuit, but no joy: several branching cables at the ones I looked at. It took an electrician several hours to identify the fault as a short at one of the many kitchen downlighters.
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