Nail in electric cable

[nailboy]

I drove a nail through a cable when resetting a floorboard. The circuit breaker worked (thank GoD) and stopped the power supply. Several sockets etc. would not work, although the kitchen light remained on. After cut out the damaged cable and rejoining it everyhing now works, but the kitchen light stays on and I the wall switch won't turn it off.
Now I can only turn it off by turning off the circuit breaker in the fuse box which runs all the downstairs lights.
What has gone wrong??

Please advise me where I've gone wrong.

Regards,

Nailboy
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Lynda, moderator

Posting in the wrong forum for a start

I have moved it to the correct forum

 

[ricicle]

You could have nailed through the switch wire for the light - how did you re-connect the wires when you repaired it?

 

[Spark123]

Sounds odd, your lights and sockets should be on completely separate circuits. Have you done any work on the kitchen light?
Did you replace the entire length of damaged cable for the socket circuit?

 

[securespark]

Sounds to me like you've refitted the kitchen light incorrectly. Is that the case?