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Two way lighting not working
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Did you put the old switches back on ,wired according to the way they were before removal, if so what was the result ?
You come on here asking for help.
Regardless of what YOU THINK; the advice given about 5 wires is totally correct.
What I see in you pictures is a yellow wire, correctly marked with red tape to indicate it's a live wire and a blue and a black wire, correctly marked with red tape to indicate it's a live wire.
Somehow the blue and black have become disassociated from the switch.
Do us all a favour and terminate the taped up blue and black in the spare terminal and try it.
THEN we can start with other advice IF it still does not work.
This is how it was wired when it was working properly:
Compare that with what you have now.
If you still have the green sleeving please put it back on the bare earth wires.
I will add: Well done for taking the 'before' pictures, it has helped us a lot knowing what was there.
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Unless it has voltage reading capabilties then please dont as theyre useless for what you need.
To be fair, this (in your opening post) shows terminals but further photos do not
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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 completely dead on testing now,I think I had a loose connection hence power coming and going on testing when wired up to switch, i guess there must be a junction box somewhere under the floorboards upstairs
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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
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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 voltage present at both switch locations ,have you checked for tripped breakers / blown fuses ?
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 voltage present at both switch locations ,have you checked for tripped breakers / blown fuses ?
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