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Ok game on - except the rules have changed slightly!!! I clearly didn't pay as much attention to the multitude of wires behind the double switch plate as I thought I had...which I hope may make things easier!! So basically main switch plate RH side which controls the downstairs light does...

P.s - had a wee look at the links - the multimeter I am grasping but the diagrams I still struggle with! :oops:

Just a wee update - I haven't actually been in the flat yet following a 'babysitting for a friend' emergency however a friend offerred to take his pal to have a look....insisting it could be fixed easily! :roll: Surprisingly I have been told that the main Switch plate RH side and third...

I will have a wee look at these and hopefully get it a bit clearer in my head :roll: Thanks again and yes thanks button clicked too - more than once today

and if I haven't said already - your a superstar!! :mrgreen:

Well I had thought that - but I made the schoolgirl error of getting into a conversation with the B & Q man who seemed to think there was no way what I was buying would work together .....whilst I tried to wrestle the bell wire from his hands (that was the bit I was struggling with - too many...

I should check - I assume the testing bit gets done with the mains still off? I mean as in once I have it all hooked up will it still manage a reading with nothing running through it? Surely not :oops: Oh and Switchplate one and the main switchplate also run, I assume, via a light as one...

OK Game off at the moment - I am on call at work and for the first time this year - got a call out!!! :evil: Just my luck!! And now the light has faded - and I would rather give it a try when the light is good as the first swithplate especially is in a dark corner with no natural light and...

Ok purchases made - cheapest multimeter they had, 5 m of bell wire and 5 amp blocks. All looking rather complicated right now!! :o So I am off to try and sort our the first stage first - rewiring the parts of the top light before the complication of the lower light!! I shall see how that...

Yes yes the mains and everything have been off whilst I have been doing this ....that much I do know! Ok so next step is a multimeter before retorting to an electrician? Are they idiot proof? :oops: If so will nip by B & Q on my way home and pick one up.

Ok so the first switchplate and LH side of main switch plate I have clear in my head - red in Com and black wires in the L1 and L2. :) The main switchplate (2) and third switchplate are prob about 3 meteres apart and I know the wires are connected over the ceiling as the third switchplate...

Thanks - I am getting this clearer in my head and I def haven't wired it up like that yet! Third switchplate hasn't been touched at all. It is all still original - I'd be lying to say I remember exactly what it looks like on the back but I know there are two black and two red wires - the...

"Right, you probably do have the strappers coming in from the first switch coming in on the lefthand conduit. Connect these the same as the first switch" The problem being switchplate one I've prob wired all wrong too as it'snot working either! It was originally wired into a single switch...

THANK YOU SO MUCH :D I hope my explanation about what controls what above makes sense - so the left hand side wires in the middle switch plate are the wires from the first switch plate which I had already assumed given there is only one red and two black wires. So this side (relating to...

OK I will explain as best I can. There is switchplate one next to the front door - this controls ONLY the top hall light. One red wire, two black wires. Middle switchplate which is further along the hall from Switchplate one - this is a double switch. LH switch = top hall light, RH...