Recent content by peter m

I chucked the old switches away unfortunately, the only reason I have changed them is they are the old fashioned box switches, i wanted flush ones ,initially I changed the hallway no issues whatsoever, problem began when changing the one on the landing

I tried the taped up blue and black wires in the switch ,even though they are both live on testing made no difference, since then the other 3 wires on both upstairs and downstairs are all dead ,i did try to pull abit of extra cable through the old metal trunking thus afternoon and both ends are...

You can clearly see the two wires u claim came out did not ,taped up at back of box

So how come only 3 wires downstairs you wouldn't have 5 wires going into the upstairs switch

They were not they were taped up as not in use

Im buying a voltage detector pen

Very helpful NOT

I did at the start of the thread

They have not come out the terminal as they were taped up and not used ,still leaves 3 connections without those taped wires and also only 3 downstairs

So what u are saying if the 2 out of use cables were in the switch that would be a total of 5 wires but only 3 downstairs

The blue and black were wrapped in electrical tape and were never connected to the switch, there are still 3 wires in the switch and there 3 wires in the downstairs switch

Those wires that are wrapped with electrical tape were not connected to the switch ,still 3 wires in the switch do the others were obviously not required

Those other wires are not in use they were already taped up ,the pics I posted are how it was wired and working fine

I have changed loads of switches and sockets never had an issue before