My trip to B&Q is this good advice?

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I have a question about the validity of advice i recieved today from a B&Q guy who said he was a sparky.

Question. If you had a 2 way light switch and it was wired up for the purpose of being able to switch a light on downstairs by both a switch downstairs and a switch upstairs would it be possible to use T&E at either 1mm2 or 1.5mm2 oppossed to using 3 Core & E as i thought you should between switches.

The guy said that it was normal practice to use the same cable i.e T&E to wire between switches but stated that it must be labelled well as you can get in a pickle.

Can somebody clear this up for me?
 
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Adam, If is smells like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck..then you can bet ist's a duck..

The same is true of Bull

Ignore the idiot, in fact I would phone B&Q and complain, the Guy is a muppet of the highest order.

Stick with the way you know, it is right.
 
Thought he was wrong, didn't see any duck movements but i said to the old man, that his comments went against the grain of the books that i am reading and the advice that i have noticed many of the knowledgable posting on this forum.

Breezer has even gone as far as to post a diagram on his sticky reference page which points out that it's three core and earth
 
andemz said:
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Breezer has even gone as far as to post a diagram on his sticky reference page which points out that it's three core and earth

thankyou :oops: , but anyone can post a picture on it (i believe it was FWL_Engineer's idea to make it "sticky")
 
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Must have my fuzzy head on today. I'm not even sure what the B & Q guy meant by what he said!!
 
You can wire a pair of 2-way switches with T/E linking the two L1s & L2s, but you then have to resolve the problem of needing a single to provide the live feed to one COM and take the switched live from the other.

Conduit would be one way that meets the regs - what about using 1 conductor in T/E if the other one was cut back - would this be allowed?
 

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