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Before the electrician came out this is what would happen....
Turn fuse #2 (downstairs lights) off....
all downstairs lights would be killed except for the downstairs hall light - that would still work.
The landing (upstairs hall) light would be off. Basically the landing light at the top of the stairs & the hall light at the bottom of the stairs were back to front in terms of being on an upstairs/downstairs circuit.
The house/burglar alarm also worked.
Then the electrician came out when we were having work done on the living room.
Basically the living room floor was ripped up, joists included.
3 additional mains sockets were wired in & the electrician was doing something in with the fusebox i could hear.
Now the light setup is strange (with the fuses) & the house/burglar alarm no longer works.
The alarm guy has been out & said there's no power to the alarm, which he thought ran on the downstairs socket circuit. The electrician has since said this isn't true & that it runs on the lights circuit.
NOW....... when you flick fuse #2 (downstairs lights) off, depending on what switches are on/off results in differing outcomes.......
*There's 3 lights in the kitchen/diner by the way
IF.......
I really hope you can follow that because it was a royal PITA going through all the sequences.
Basically we're just wanting to know what's likely happened to make everything go all strange & how it can be put right (we know an electrician will need to come out & we'll be contacting the same one when they come back from holiday).
Turn fuse #2 (downstairs lights) off....
all downstairs lights would be killed except for the downstairs hall light - that would still work.
The landing (upstairs hall) light would be off. Basically the landing light at the top of the stairs & the hall light at the bottom of the stairs were back to front in terms of being on an upstairs/downstairs circuit.
The house/burglar alarm also worked.
Then the electrician came out when we were having work done on the living room.
Basically the living room floor was ripped up, joists included.
3 additional mains sockets were wired in & the electrician was doing something in with the fusebox i could hear.
Now the light setup is strange (with the fuses) & the house/burglar alarm no longer works.
The alarm guy has been out & said there's no power to the alarm, which he thought ran on the downstairs socket circuit. The electrician has since said this isn't true & that it runs on the lights circuit.
NOW....... when you flick fuse #2 (downstairs lights) off, depending on what switches are on/off results in differing outcomes.......
*There's 3 lights in the kitchen/diner by the way
IF.......
- The landing (upstairs) light is turned on using the downstairs switch (there is a switch upstairs & downstairs for this light) AND the kitchen/diner lights are off .... then all the switches don't work downstairs except for the downstairs hall which does work
- The landing light switch is on upstairs (same as above) AND the kitchen/diner lights are on (that's the difference) ... then the hall downstairs will turn its light on/off (same as above) HOWEVER the landing switch downstairs will turn the landing light on/off upstairs AND ALSO the kitchen/diner lights.
- The landing light is turned on using the upstairs switch (so same as above except the upstairs light is turned on by the other switch now) AND the kitchen/diner lights are off .... then all downstairs lights are off AND the landing but the downstairs hall switch still works.
- The landing light is on upstairs (same as above) AND the kitchen/diner lights are on (the difference from the previous example) .... then same outcome - downstairs lights are off including the landing upstairs, but the downstairs hall switch still operates its light ..... HOWEVER unlike the previous example where the upstairs light was on & the kitchen lights were on, the downstairs hall switch in this instance does not interfere with the kitchen/diner lights.
I really hope you can follow that because it was a royal PITA going through all the sequences.
Basically we're just wanting to know what's likely happened to make everything go all strange & how it can be put right (we know an electrician will need to come out & we'll be contacting the same one when they come back from holiday).