Hi,
I have what is going to be a simple problem for you guys but it's something that has me completely stumped.
My hallway and landing was recently re-plastered and the plaster removed all the sockets & switches, this is fine and it looks great except I have no idea how to get them working again. Upstairs appears to be the easiest to tackle first so I'm looking for any advice you can give me.
It's a 2 gang, 2-way switch. There are 3 electrical cables feeding in to this, 2 of them are 4 core and 1 which probably goes to the landing light is 3 core.
The 3 core appears consists of the following
1 live (brown) = this is confirmed as a live AC wire, it is wired through a connection block to the "4 core (feed 1)" brown wire below.
1 neutral
1 Earth
4 core (feed 1) goes downstairs it is wired directly into the live from the ceiling rose as above:
1 brown wired directly to the live wire
1 grey (common?) switching wire
1 black switch wire
1 Earth
4 core (feed 2) going downstairs this currently has a live of its own:
1 live (brown) confirmed live AC
1 grey (common?) switching wire
1 black switch wire
1 Earth
Am I right in thinking that the 4 core "feed 1" and 3 core work together with the downstairs switch to turn on and off my landing light? If so I'm confused by the fact that the live is wired directly in to 4 core wire but my intelligence aside. I have L, L1 and L2 on the upstairs and downstairs switch how do I wire these together to actually shed some light on the situation? (sorry)
Not sure if this is relevant but downstairs there are 5 feeds into the switch, amongst these is a neutral wire & black wire (with blue tape around it) wired together into a connection block. There are also another 2 cables with their browns wired together into a connection block. I'm assuming these are unrelated to the landing lights as there are many more circuits going into the downstairs lights.
I have what is going to be a simple problem for you guys but it's something that has me completely stumped.
My hallway and landing was recently re-plastered and the plaster removed all the sockets & switches, this is fine and it looks great except I have no idea how to get them working again. Upstairs appears to be the easiest to tackle first so I'm looking for any advice you can give me.
It's a 2 gang, 2-way switch. There are 3 electrical cables feeding in to this, 2 of them are 4 core and 1 which probably goes to the landing light is 3 core.
The 3 core appears consists of the following
1 live (brown) = this is confirmed as a live AC wire, it is wired through a connection block to the "4 core (feed 1)" brown wire below.
1 neutral
1 Earth
4 core (feed 1) goes downstairs it is wired directly into the live from the ceiling rose as above:
1 brown wired directly to the live wire
1 grey (common?) switching wire
1 black switch wire
1 Earth
4 core (feed 2) going downstairs this currently has a live of its own:
1 live (brown) confirmed live AC
1 grey (common?) switching wire
1 black switch wire
1 Earth
Am I right in thinking that the 4 core "feed 1" and 3 core work together with the downstairs switch to turn on and off my landing light? If so I'm confused by the fact that the live is wired directly in to 4 core wire but my intelligence aside. I have L, L1 and L2 on the upstairs and downstairs switch how do I wire these together to actually shed some light on the situation? (sorry)
Not sure if this is relevant but downstairs there are 5 feeds into the switch, amongst these is a neutral wire & black wire (with blue tape around it) wired together into a connection block. There are also another 2 cables with their browns wired together into a connection block. I'm assuming these are unrelated to the landing lights as there are many more circuits going into the downstairs lights.