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I want to add a light in my room which is apart of the upstairs lighting circuit. The only problem that I have is that all the terminals within the celling roses in the upstairs lighting circuit are being used. I was just wondering if I can still use these celling roses and just connect my new cable into the used terminals of the celling roses or will I have to look for an alternative way.

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The problem is that you need to understand that the red and black wires may not be power and return. The main red line is broken at a point and a new cable run to the light ( red + black) or (blue+ brown) this is merely the switch circuit fore that light. So if you mistake the two points it may be that what you have is red+red to your globe. ( Is that clear?) you would need to find the common black + the red to take power to the Red+black to your new ceiling rose, but breaking the now new red wire somewhere and joining in a new red_+ black that goes down to the switch


Use a power checking device as sometimes in some roses where multiple circuitsw feed fom Black and Black can be live
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