Recent content by terryplumb

What did you do Peter ?

Oh sheeite !! The switch cable appears to come from the rose, fairly standard loop In wiring.

Pictures of the wiring connections at the rose may be useful. If the permanent live to the switch originates there,that would be a starting point,followed by tracking the cable in the loft. Hopefully it's not boarded over up there and you can access the cables !

Is that the ceiling rose connected to the switches in question? If so ,is the permanent live to the switches fed from that rose ?

Are you saying one of the wires that was originally taped up lights up your voltage sensor ,and no other wires do ? You would be better off buying a multimeter ,those volt sticks are not gonna be much use to you for fault finding. Yes ,it's possible that pulling on wires could cause a...

Which circuit are the 2 switches part of ( I assume upstairs circuit)? As you left a few weeks between changing the hall switch ,and the issue that arose today, Have you worked on any ceiling light fittings ,or any other switches between,or been in the loft ?

I assume all other lights on the circuit are working ? Do you have more than one lighting circuit ( i.e . One breaker for upstairs and one for downstairs) ? Those non contact voltage sensors are not great to be frank . Looks like you have a job on your hands to find out why / where the voltage...

Which switch is the hallway ,is that the one with taped up wires ? You say you changed the hallway switch with no problems ,does that mean you tested turning the light on and off from both switches ok ,and then started work on the switch with extended wires ? If there doesn't appear to be any...

Did you put the old switches back on ,wired according to the way they were before removal, if so what was the result ?

Did you miss my above post ? I can't tell from the picture, it's not clear enough, but the wire appears to go where the screw is ??

In your picture above ,post no.8,( with the 2 red and 1 yellow wires connecting to a new switch) check the wire going to the com terminal.

Do you have a picture of the switch taken before you removed it from the wiring with the 2 loose wires visible also ?

It's the switch on the left side of the diagram that is not working as it should as I understand it ?

Try it ,and let us know the result.

Just to clarify ,when you released the switch from the mounting box, 2 red wires were loose. You then removed all other wires from their terminals. Is that all correct ? If so ,did you label all the wires so you could put them back into their respective terminals ? It would appear that you have...