Recent content by VeryBaffled

Sounds like we might be making progress in finding the problem - not sure when I will be able to get the photo to you as out in the morning but will post back on here as soon as I can. Thanks everyone, so glad I found this site.

Thanks everyone. Will wait till daylight to do photos but in the meantime can confirm that the cables going in are not all together. red and black from one cable, yellow is on its own.

Yes, definitely two circuits. House built early 1980s and has fuse box of that era with fuse wire. I might be confusing you with the gang terminology as I tend to equate the number of gangs to the number of individual switches on the switch which I know is wrong. So as far as I know there are...

Good point. I think I will earth the switch as you say as in all the confusion over the rest of the problems I had overlooked the fact that I now have a metal plate rather than a plastic one so better to be safe than sorry! As for when I switch the landing light off, that solves everything...

Thanks again, I can see what you mean, really helpful diagram. I've checked again. The answer is that the earth is connected to the metal box and the switch plate is metal and so when the switch cover is back on the wall it should all be earthed. Hope you agree?

Thanks for such a prompt reply. We changed the lights in the lounge about 3 months ago but all seemed ok and the present problem wasn't there. The only thing that we did find was that we have blown a few bulbs which blows the fuse for the downstairs light circuit but I put that down to cheap...

Hopefully the three pictures are attached. Picture 1 shows the 3 gang switch in the hallway downstairs. Left switch is a two way for the landing light. Centre switch is for the ground floor hallway, front switch is ground floor outside light. This is wired as top (left to right) red, blue...

Thanks, we have a tester but are not sure what to test.... Cant attach a picture at the moment but will try later. Downstairs switch controls outside light, hallway and landing. Upstairs switch just does landing. If we switch hallway and outside light there is no problem but if we use either...

We've just decorated and changed our light switches. Done this before with no problems but this time something strange has happened. If we switch the landing light on from either upstairs or downstairs all the downstairs lights go off. If we switch it off they are all fine again. Checked all the...