Recent content by laughalot

Single wires - in the same property I had to replace a 'spur' to the garage and on tracing it back to the main board I discovered that the previous occupant had used 'off cuts' and the wire colours changed 3 times from main board to socket in the garage. Not good but it's made me check all...

Thanks all, PL & Neutral appear to be the problem and error now rectified. In this case wire colours are irrelevant as whoever first wired the thing used a red, a brown and a blue

When I first connected I tried to ensure I was getting the cables connected correctly and so did a simple test on the wires - one wire showed to be permanently live i.e. showing current present when light is both off and on. The other 2 wires only showed a power supply when the light was...

All I have done so far is remove an old faulty extractor fan and fitted a direct replacement assuming that I was connecting up correctly - the old fan used to work as intended until it packed up altogether - but my attempt at replacement has resulted in the fan operating in an unexpected way...

I have fitted an Extractor fan with timer. It has a permanent live, a switched live and a neutral. My problem is the fan only comes on when the light is turned off and will continue to run until such time as we turn on the light, then it will switch off according to the 'timer delay'. Any idea...