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You mean you need a picture of the full wall or just left or right expanded in the picture?

I thought of that but wouldn't that simply say the flood light is powered up correctly (which it is since the light is working)? The problem is that the PIR does not work. I thought a specific wiring would override the PIR operation but that seems to be just if the live is connected to L1...

Can you please expand? Thanks

Not much but I can get whatever is needed based on the suggestions gathered here. I am an electronics engineer and have access to multimeters etc

Hi, I cannot seem to work out why the PIR of the Timeguard flood light I have in the house I just moved into is not working. Timeguard advises that PIR would not work if live was connected to L1 rather than L but wiring seems ok. See pics attached of part number, recommended wiring and actual...

Hi, See pic attached of the basin in the house I just purchased. The previous owner confirmed he only had slow drain but no blockage like this and was advised by his plumber to just use some Mr Muscle fron time to time. I applied a bottle of Mr Muscle and still the basin takes more than 1 day...

Hi, I see some damp patches on the garage inside walls in the house I recently purchased. See picture. It has been raining quite a lot lately and maybe the garage door in the pic is causing some of the patches, but some patches are a bit too far from that door for the door to be the cause of...

C Can you please expand wrt to which wire and how we come to that conclusion? Just for me to understand. Thank you

Here are some pics: - first two show the wiring behind the wall switch - next four show the wiring at the ceiling light at the centre of the lounge - last one shows the wiring at the ceiling light on the other side of the lounge

Yes I was going to open up the 2 gang switch. I guess if I see 3 sets of wiring coming down into the switch it means yhe 2 lights in question are separate... I am just trying to understand if I need to open up the ceiling to separate the 2 lights.

Hi, I have 3 ceiling lights in the lounge of the new house I am moving into. There is a 2 gang wall switch - 1 gang controls 1 ceiling light and the other gang controls the 2 other lights. How do I go about working out if the 2 lights controlled by the second gang are wired up together at...

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This one so yeah, flexible https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-3-Core-Heat-Resistant-Flexible-Cable---2-5mm2-x-5m/p/204860

Ended up like this. Use round twin and earth cable rather than flat though (the round cable I had lying around had all the 3 wires readily sleeved) so will now need like 4 cable ties, 2 for the angle and 2 for closer to the socket where the cable protrudes (there is wood behind)

Here is a pic of the old intermediate switch and a pic of one of the old 2 way switches (the 2nd pic has the 2 way switch wired up as a 1 way but that is a light switch in another location - it gives an example of the old 2 way switch I originally had). The new intermediate switch has L3 and...

Therr is an rcd tap in the consumer unit with a separate downstairs sockets tap. I believe the socket in question belongs to the downstairs sockets category

Can you please expand as I am not sure I fully understand? The feed goes to a socket that was in a conservatory that, after the removal of the conservatory, will become an outdoor socket.

The "outdoor" socket goes to a conservatory that I am removing. So I am trying to convert that socket into an external socket, but that socket currently has no power. I guess we'll never know why the spur wirings got chopped off from the donor socket

Understood. I'll chip away filler and plaster to get the cable out. Question is whether while I am at it I should install a conduit myself for easier maintenance in the future, rather than burying the new cable into the plaster again?

If you zoom in the bottom right of the first pic, you can see a black rubber circle inside which you have grey rubber with the cables in. I call the back rubber cilinder the conduit. I am first tackling the removal of the old / chopped off cable first, as I pulled and it can't seem to move...