Recent content by SouthernTom

Dear all Many thanks for your help on this. It turns out that I was doing things right in the first place but it was only when I was sure about that that I was able to sort things out. I finally resolved things by establishing that the porch circuit was working fine and that there was...

Thanks for the support. Will try first think in the morning Tom

Just to confirm - there is only one blue wire to the switch. The other is connected to black wires with a connecting box which was buried. The meter readings between wires and earth are as follows. (These are for the left hand cable at the ceiling. The other cable goes to the outside...

Picture of the switch attached. Turns out the switch is a three gang rather than a two gang. As far as I can recall, - the switch on the left as you look at the picture is for the outside light - the switch in the centre is for the porch light (although the cable for the...

just realised the images don't show - trying again -------------------------------------------------------- Thank you all for the quick response. Apologies for the previous lack of pictures. I hadn't realised I could upload them The problem is entirely my fault. I disconnected the rose...

Thank you all for the quick response. Apologies for the previous lack of pictures. I hadn't realised I could upload them The problem is entirely my fault. I disconnected the rose without properly noting where the wires went but it does mean I know everything was working previously...

I have a single four core cable coming in (presumably from the light switches) to a ceiling rose for a porch light with a four core cable which then goes on to feed an outside light. There is only one feed into the ceiling rose: - red - yellow with red sleeve - blue - earth The...