--- title: "Light fitting and switch replacement in Chipstead | 5.0 Star" description: "Light fitting replacement in Chipstead uses the cable at that point. A short run in a High Road cottage is lengthened only when it is written down." canonical: "https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-chipstead/light-fitting-dimmer-switch-replacement" --- # Light fitting and switch replacement in Chipstead > Light fitting replacement in Chipstead uses the cable at that point. A short run in a High Road cottage is lengthened only when it is written down. Light fittings in Chipstead hang from the cable that already reaches that point. In a cottage near the cricket green the cable follows the building, and a shortfall is written down before anything is cut. ## What a Chipstead light change includes The figure covers swapping the fitting on the cable that already arrives there. Extra length, or a shifted point, is priced apart. One dead lamp is not an excuse to replace the supply that comes in from the road. - Lighting installation: from £50 - A dimmer is on the figure only when that lamp can take one. - Ceiling openings for downlights are a different visit. - A stable light is included only when the stable was named. ## Light fitting and switch replacement across Chipstead We serve Chipstead from our base in Banstead. - High Road - Outwood Lane - Starrock Lane - Hazelwood Lane - How Lane - Coulsdon Lane - Hazel Way - Chipstead station - Shabden Park ## What happens on the day The new fitting goes on the cable that already arrives at that point, including where a High Road cottage has made the cable follow the room. If the cable will not reach, the extra length is written down before we cut or joint anything. We do not hide a shortfall above the ceiling. Moving the point is a different line. A newer consumer unit does not tell us this cable is new, so the circuit is tested for the fitting. ### Use the cable that is there The fitting is hung on the existing point. A cottage near the cricket green is not given a fresh line through the room because a fitting is being swapped. ### Write a short cable down first If the cable stops short of the fitting, the extra length is noted before anything goes up. A joint is not hidden out of sight. ### Test the circuit for this fitting The circuit is tested with the new fitting on it. A dimmer is used only where that lamp can accept one. Other rooms stay as they are. ## Questions about Chipstead light fittings ### What happens when the cable will not reach? Any extra length is noted before the fitting goes up. A joint is not tucked into the ceiling of a High Road cottage to hide a shortfall. ### Can you move the point across the room? That is a different line of work. A swap hangs on the point that exists. Moving it, especially where cable follows the cottage, is described before we cut. ### Does a new consumer unit mean the lighting cable is new? No. The unit can be newer than the cable. We test the circuit that feeds this fitting rather than trusting the fascia. ### Are dimmers always possible? No. The lamp has to accept a dimmer. Where it does not, we fit a switch and say so, including in a cottage near the cricket green. ### Will the garden be trenched for one indoor lamp? No. An indoor fitting does not open the long supply from the road, and it does not recable a stable. ## Other services in Chipstead - [Electrician in Chipstead](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-chipstead): Electrician in Chipstead, Surrey (CR5) — the Reigate and Banstead village, not Chipstead in Kent. EICRs, fuse boards, outbuilding supplies and fault finding. - [Light fitting and switch replacement (all areas)](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/light-fitting-dimmer-switch-replacement): TMB Electrics replaces light fittings, dimmers and switches from £50. 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