in a previous video i showed you how to connect up a ceiling rose pendant or a batten lamp holder
and we discussed the layout of the conductors here and how to make them look neat in order
to make the connections but let's just summarize what that video was all about we brought a cable
in that had the neutral permanent line and a CPC we brought a cable in that had the neutral
permanent line CPC going out to the next room and then we had a cable with a permanent line and not
a neutral that brown sleeving there indicates that that's a switching line conductor back from
the switch so you take the permanent line down to the switch and you come back to turn on the light
and we said that the flex would be connected here and here whether it be for a batten lamp holder or
a ceiling rose and pendant and i took it out only to make the video obviously easier for people to
see i wouldn't normally recommend taking that out because it's two more connections to reconnect
so in this video the question i get asked from my learners is obviously can i take another cable
from here when it's already full remembering the two outside terminations would be used for the
flex can i take another cable out here say if i needed to wire a loft light maybe an outside light
or take a cable into a new extension and this was the nearest lighting point for all those three
scenarios so i've brought another cable in here which i need to bring at the permanent line the
neutral and CPC into another location to continue on the lighting circuit yes you can is the answer
but of course it means we're going to have to double up some connections so i'm going to strip
this back and just show you how to to insert these and just the thinking behind it okay so we've got
a cable again so in the first video we looked at trying to make sure our conductors were in the
right place well i've got my neutral on this side here and actually my neutrals here so i need to
turn that round and we showed it in the previous video because these cables come up into a ceiling
you just pull it a little bit longer put a little bit of a twist on it and then hopefully you can
see my neutral now is on the correct side and because it can move up and down makes it a lot
easier to strip it i'm going to use my twin and earth strippers or twin and CPC strippers
to in order to move the outside PVC we do love these just slide that off and then just confirm
we've got our cable in the right place so we're trying to take into the other room
the neutral connection and the permanent line and the CPC through so i've got those stripped
back push it back into the ceiling and i've got to work out whether it's long enough well
it isn't now because we're obviously going to take a longer route round so i'm going to need
to strip some more back so coming back out again the beauty of these strippers are it's so simple
and then we can pull that off so i've got them quite a little bit longer now to make
sure i can dress them around nice and neatly so neutral CPC and line connection to take
that feed into another room just push that down into position i'm going to bring my neutral round
like that in order to make my connection and i'm going to join it into there's a block of three
here doesn't matter which one you go into i'm not going on the outside ones because that's where
the flex will go i'm just joining the neutral in on here so let's dress it so it looks neat still
bring it round cut it to the desired length and we strip back use these again
strip back ready for my connection it just means i've got to go in the same termination
now sometimes it's worth just checking to see how crushed the neutral was the first time around
that it hasn't overly fractured okay and looking weak if that look really weak there
i recommend you re-terminate because you're going to screw down into it again
so pop that one back in put my neutral in with it and just push them into position and then
tighten it up so i've got two in the one hole there but again just be careful that the other
person hasn't over tightened them and fractured the copper because now all of a sudden you've
screwed back into them so let's pick my neutral up okay selection there i'll do my CPC next
in the previous video i only used one of the two holes i could use so it makes it nice
and simple for me now i'm just going to bring my CPC round put my green and yellow sleeve knot on
let's put that on and make our connection for our CPC now because there's only one
going into the hole i could double it over and probably a little bit long so just trim that back
so i've got the option if i wanted to of doubling over it's lighting points
are probably the only place where i don't double my connections anyone who's been
following me for a long time knows i love a doubled over connection the holes in ceiling
roses and pendants baton lamp holders have been getting so much smaller over the time
that actually it can be quite difficult to double our terminations in trying
to stay out the way the camera so there we go so our CPC is connected again looking reasonably
neat we've got a line connection to make as well doesn't matter which one to go into i
could come in down this side here if i wanted to just trying to make them all look very similar
strip that back strip it using a different tool again i used all the different tools in there
that's got a slot for it and just push it away and hopefully strip the end off and make sure it's
nice and straight so we can dress it into position into the same termination here again just want to
check you haven't fractured the copper too much on the original termination looks okay pop in
my next one and make my connection so what we've done now is we've managed to pick up from a light
fitting that looks as if it's fully populated we've managed to pick up our connections for
the termination's nice and tight there we go so just dress it and in now so we've got it neat
just straighten that one up and there we go so we've got our connections
now so we've got three in our neutrals our outside neutral body for our flex so three
neutrals four in our loop permanent line connection there and our switching line
so this cable now that we've added to it goes off to another area maybe an outside light a
loft light or another room and brings the supply permanent line neutral and CPC into that location
you continue on the line circuit there but as always i hope this video has been some help