Recent content by johnodiy

My wife once volunteered to take an old double mattress to the dump. My mate and I put it on top of a landrover roof rack, the ones with about an 8 inch frame sticking up all around. As the dump was just down the road, I said "take it steady, as we haven't tied it down as its held in by the roof...

Just found and joined this site and was reading some of the diasters, very funny, and here's one of mine. As a kid of 16 doing up and old mini cooper, in a very drafty old shed in the middle of snowy winter, i decide to go up on the very high roof and block a few of the holes up, to stop the...

Sorted, thanks all. Checked the first 2 way switch, which i did'nt wire, and found yellow and red were crossed, so undid and all is working.

Hi Rf lighting. The intermediate switch I bought, a MEM grid type, does not have any indication which terminal is what, so i'm guessing that at the top you have L1 and L2, and at the bottom the other pair of L1 and L2? So I put the live feed into the bottom of the intermediate switch, L1, and...

Latest. I've got myself a simalar looking intermediate switch now, I have 2 x 3core and earth to this switch (one each from the other 2 switchs), which i can wire as adviced, but can i also wire in the switch wire from the light fitting to this? I asume if this can be done, the brown (or red...

Oh, if i'm reading this right, there is no way i can do this without an intermediate switch? Is there no way at all with a 2 way switch in the middle, please! The range of switch's i have don't do an intermediate switch, (4 gang varialite). What am going to do!!!!!!!!! John

Hi i'm stuck! I want to wire a 3 or 4 way lighting circuit. I already have 3 core and earth to all the switchs, but as i'm using a specific gang type 6 switch panal, i cant use an intermediate switch. I'm sure there is a way as i recall an eletrican getting over this problem on another job. Also...