Neon 2 way switch
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This actually takes me back some 50 plus years to a loft accessed through the ceiling of the airing cupboard, the loft light was a trailing cable coiled up on the floor of the cupboard with 15A plug. Above the loft hatch was a glass panel in the roof which gave plenty of light in that area but the loft was L shaped and around the corner was in total shadow. It was easier to call down to get someone else to plug the light in.
I help with Hospital Radio and the main loft area has switches at every access point and several more by doors in firebreaks. Approaching 10 in total.
But what also works is a switch in the loft which you can see and reach from the ladder before you actually set foot in the loft.
We used to use an immersion heater as boost to our coke boiler and there was constant chatter whether it had been put on and then left on and regular traipsing up and down stairs, my solution was a neon in the ceiling at the top of the stairs.
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The area is open and flat.
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my loft light has a pull-cord switch, attached to a roof timber, so that it hangs down over the hatch hole. It is the first thing you see when you enter, and the last thing you see when you leave.
A pull-cord can be whatever length you want.
It has a wooden curtain-ring as a pull so it can be turned on and off using the ladder pole.
A pull-cord can be whatever length you want.
It has a wooden curtain-ring as a pull so it can be turned on and off using the ladder pole.
No joists around the perimeter of the hatchway?
Exactly the same here - and it's never yet resulted in the light being left on up there. As I wrote before, one would have to be pretty drunk to close the hatch whilst there was obviously light still coming through it!
Kind Regards, John
I repeat
Put a micro switch on the loft hatch.
Simples
I think that if I had a microswitch on my loft hatch, I would forever be wondering whether the light really had gone out when I closed the hatch. Such switches on my wardrobe doors do seem to need very occasional 'adjustment'.
There surely must me umpteen places around the hatch, or even on the ceiling or an adjacent wall (I do that with one of my loft hatches), where one could site a switch, not to mention the pull switch. Being a man of little faith, I like to see a light go out when I operate a switch, rather than having to trust that it will go out when I close a hatch!
Kind Regards, John
Schrodinger had the same concern.
Hmm, not got a light in your fridge then JW2?
OK. Microswitch on loft hatch with a small LED visible from the landing. Solves all issues.
OK. Microswitch on loft hatch with a small LED visible from the landing. Solves all issues.
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