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Do the red bits not lever the yellow down when you push them onto the outside of the ceiling?
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how the hell anyone decided these 'mouse trap' design were adequate for anything is a mystery.. but (best I know) the yellow will go through by holding to the lamp, the red won't and it'll feel like you are at danger of braking the plaster pushing them in (and you are) ... then you've no idea where they are sitting or if the spring tension is about to blow but they should sit.
[There's a slim chance the ceiling replacement has changed the plasterboard thickness] but by all means take the springs off turn them around and place in different settings to try and achieve them to reasonable working order - but they just say mouse trap to me -
Just refitted some of ours like this.
Red bits point downwards, pointing towards the light, and wedge into the hole. This fixes them in pace while the yellow bits push through the hole and the spring holds them in against inside of ceiling.
The springs are TIGHT. Get up on a ladder to allow you to get really close to them, you really have to squeeze the reds together to get them into the hole without damaging the plaster.
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Plaster dry, time to put the light back. Of course it's not easy. Any YouTube is no help.
These yellow bits will push in enough to go through the ceiling hole, but not the red bits.
How do I do it? The red bits don't seem to move enough in any direction to fit.
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