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To preemptively answer my own question, I should probably just call an electrician, but just in case I'm being stupid enough that someone feels they can confidently advise over the internet, I thought I'd give this a shot...
... I'm trying to replace a fugly black and chrome three light fitting with one of yer standard white numbers. I actually did the same job at the weekend at my gf's dad's place and it was pleasingly straightforward. One red wire, one black and one green. Bam. I almost felt competent. Illusion shattered upon removing the fitting in our lounge and finding three separate wires emerging from the hole in the ceiling. Each large wire has a red, a black and a green emerging. These constituent wires are gathered together in plastic junction things, all the reds together, all the greens, two of the blacks then a lonely black. The diagrams supplied with my new fitting don't cover three wires. I assume the lonely black is the light switch, but I'm struggling to understand what is going on with the three red wires or how to set up from here. Does this sound incredibly simple to anyone who could point me in the right direction or should I be getting a real man in to do the job?
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