Recent content by Kevin Hayden

Ok, the electrition did move the position of the downstairs lights fuse on my main box. If you look on the picture I posted he moved the downstairs lights from 'position 2' to 'position 7'. I belive this was something to do with the RCD.

Hi Terryplumb, thanks for comming back to me, yes I have checked for a loose cable on my left hand 2 gang switch. I had an old switch in the shed, so I have put that on just to rule out any loose connections. As for isolating the supply before starting work then I turned off my 'lights down'...

Hi Terryplumb, The two t/e cables were not terminated in any way. The two cables were simply pushed to the back of the socket and have been like this for well over a year. I had to strip back the outer cable core to expose the three wires before I could connect as they were simply two straight...

Hi All, As Rsgaz advised I'm going to try and get an electrician in to hopefully sort this out, but just to tidy up the thread; When I first took the switch off the two twin earth cables were not connected to anything, they were just there comming into the switch box and the only cables that...

Hi Rsgaz, I think you are right, time to get someone in who knows what they are doing as I'm clealy making things worse. Just frustrating as I thought that putting up two lights and conecting them would be a simple job. Just for my education, if all my fuses are still Ok and my kitchen spots...

Hi Rsgaz, Sorry, my bad. I have now moved one of my brown wires into L1 (Pic attached). Still not working, and now I have put the power back I have lost my main kitchen light. This is the one on the left of the pic. Nothing tripped and all my fuses are fine, I have not touched this, so...

Hi Rsgaz, So, if I have understood you correctly I have attached a pic with how I have wired up my switch. I have put the two live wires (brown) into L at the top of my switch. Put both neutrals (blue) into a terminal block and then put my two earths into the earth terminal of my swithch. The...

Hi Rsgaz, Thanks, this makes sense. But how do I connect the switch? As flameport has said no to my suggestion of connecting the two live wires (brown) to L and the two neutral wires (blue) to L1?

Hi Flameport, Thanks for getting back to me, I have had another look at the looped cable and I'm 99% sure it is looped. I can't pull either side out of the wall and the hole is quite big, so no cement etc. to be seen. Is this unusual? I have also attached 3 picks. One of the internal light...

Hi, I need to put up two external wall lights onto my kitchen extension. The builders electrician did part of the work last year, but as I did not have the lights he just fitted the wiring. I now need to wire up the two external lights either side of my door and then connect them to my internal...