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I checked with the previous owner and there has only been one light in there as long as they've known, so yeah, it's probably a loop to the next location. Curiously there's also a neutral wire in here (two, connected in a block), which I'd understood to be exceeding rare in UK light switches...

Yeah, that's what I thought. I expect it would only be important if I also needed something wired to L2, but for a straight 1 gang common <-> L1 only wiring, either way breaks the live connection.

Hi, I recently bought a house and want to replace the old 1 gang light switch in the kitchen with a more modern one (like the newer sockets from when the kitchen was refitted). After taking the switch off the wall, it seems to have two wires connected to the common, and one to the L1 output...

Okay, then it's yours :) PM me the details and I can post it out.

They're still available, though the keypad I have is missing the flap and the overlay that goes on the front panel is peeling off and worn, so I'm not sure whether it would be much of an improvement?

When I removed the living room PIR I found that it wasn't even connected to anything! Someone had opened it up, cut off the wiring inside the unit, removed all the external wiring, and then put it back up on the wall... whyyyyyy.

That's everything in the hall ripped out! So much cleaner, though now I have some holes to fill and some painting to do :) I'll deal with the holes and the living room PIR tomorrow, as I need to move the stuff in front of it to sand and paint the living room skirting boards anyway. I don't...

I had a chat with the previous owner and we think we've solved the mystery of where the control unit used to be. It seems that prior to them adding another room upstairs, there used to be an airing cupboard where the boiler is that also had some leftover alarm wiring in it. We both think that...

@Handymanjo There are some photos linked from the relevant text. Are there any others you'd need? @scott1980 Thanks, the mains voltage in the control unit was the part I was most afraid of, but if everything else in the system is low voltage (or dead; I can test with a multimeter) then I'm less...

Hi, I recently bought a house that appears to have a completely non-functional Scantronic 9800 alarm system (or some remnants of one) that I'd like to remove prior to tidying up some plaster and decorating. According to the previous owners, the system had never worked in the 5 years they owned...