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Thanks, Zebra. Thought it was as simple as that but always prefer to check. Will use twin and earth as you suggest to get the light back on and then get round to sorting out the bigger mess.

Oops, sorry, try this. I mean it's one of three switches that control the hall lights - i.e. it's a 2 way switch - by the front door - linked to an intermediate switch at the end of the hall and then another 2-way switch on the landing. It is (also) a 2-gang switch as it also controls the...

Here’s a better picture though there are so many wires that it’s hard to make them all out. I guess the wires may have come loose when I pulled out the transformer, though obviously it had stopped working before that. Yes, the brown with the cut blue goes to L2 on a 3-way switch. I...

Thanks. Have uploaded two photographs. I can't pull the rose out any further I'm afraid. The black wires in the first group haven't come out very well (they include the blue wire which you can see). The loose brown from the rose is on the right hand side.

Could I seek some advice on what I hope is a simple problem? One of the downlights in my hall went, and when I found out that it wasn’t the bulb, I went to change the transformer. When I pulled it out, I found that its two wires are connected to a junction box. Inside, its blue wire is...

I have a hall switch which is, irritatingly, on a wall just inside a cupboard that was built subsequently by the previous owners. Ideally, I’d like to extend the cables to an architrave switch with a metal back box in the door frame of the cupboard. The cables would still be in the safe...