Lighting/extractor junction box

[MICH43L]

Purely theoretical question: What do you do when you have 6 * 1.5mm cables to fit in a heavy duty junction box that is only supposed to take 4 * 2.5mm cables?

Eg.

• Ring in
• Ring out
• Switch
• Lights 1
• Lights 2
• Timer Extractor (3 core and earth)

Do you

1. Cram them all in? (Tight, but they'll fit)
2. Find a bigger junction box? (Where?)
3. Take a short spur off to another j/b for the lights (reducing the number of cables by one)
4. Take a short spur off with 3 core and earth to another j/b where you can connect fan and 2 lights.
5. Something else?

 

[flameport]

 

[MICH43L]

Nice one.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Purely theoretical question: What do you do when you have 6 * 1.5mm cables to fit in a heavy duty junction box that is only supposed to take 4 * 2.5mm cables?

4 x 2.5 = 10; 6 x 1.5 = 9

Hardly 'heavy duty' if it only takes 4 x 2.5.