Recent content by londondiyer

Hi all, I just wanted to thank you for your helpful comments and suggestions... I didn't find a fused spur in teh same room, but had a bit of a think, and looked, upstairs in the bedroom, and found one on the opposite side of the room, behind a wardrobe! replaced fuse, replaced dodgy...

thanks again everyone... xr4x4 - using the multimeter, testing the earth to each of the six wires (three red and three black), am I looking for one of the six to give me a reading, and that is the live feed? and if none do I assume the feed is disrupted/broken somewhere? holmslaw - there...

hello again! the fuse box, has a 'protected circuits' switch as part of it, and that's not been flipped... There isn't another socket on the same wall, the nearest socket is on an adjacent wall, and that's working fine, as is the one in the room above, as I'm guessing that it could have be...

hi there sparkwright, thanks for your reply I tested the meter on a socket, and know it works - no offence taken by the way! That's right, these lights aren't on ayt of the 'light' circuits, as I switched them all off, and they were still lit... I could only switch them off throwing the...

yes, power was on... meter set to AC (250), and as I said, it worked as expected/desired in a socket... when you say 'and earths', what do you mean, should I be doing something with them, or just leaving them earthed to box? I have now put the three reds together, in a terminal block...

hello thanks for all your help yesterday, unfortunately, I haven't solved my problem... I waited until daylight, so I could see what I was doing, bought a multimeter... tested multimeter on a socket, and it works fine... tested the cables for the switch in question, and nothing... -...

Thanks guys, I think I understand now... (it seems a diagram would have solved all this!) One further question... without a two pronged tester, and not being keen on using the neon screw driver, would using 'trial and error' (ie swithcing off the power, and trying the three reds in each of...

I have started, what I thought would be a simple task... which has gone wrong, and I hope one of you guys can help... to follow is as much info as I can think of... I wanted to replace 2-gang dimmer switch in the lounge, that the switch buttons had fallen off of - and which was ugly... I want...