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No I'm not confused...We both knew exactly what we were discussing.

The reason was that an old friend of mine (now retired) who was an electrician all his life told me that it would work as a normal 2 gang switch and in fact explained how to wire it. Must admit by the time he had finished explaining and got home I had forgotten what he said and assumed by...

Breezer, I did actually state that what I was supplying was a ceiling fan and a wall light from this 2 gang switch. And of course these would be required to work independantly of each other as and when required. If I understand you rightly you are advising me that this switch won't achieve...

Thanks but what I want is for both switches to work to supply two different appliances. One live in and two separate switched lives out. wemyss

Please put me out of my misery and tell me how the connections are made on a 2 gang light switch. Found one in my store cupboard and sat for a couple of hours with my continuity tester and a couple of bits of wire but couldn't get it to work and beginning to think it was faulty. It has two...

Ian, Very interesting and must admit defeat and say I’ve never seen anything quite like the system you describe. And considering I started my apprenticeship in 1953 and long retired I never saw anything even similar. Your boiler fed directly from a borehole. Well I suppose it must have...

Ian, I think there is some confusion in our minds as to exactly what kind of system you have. If we start from basics the normal one is this. You have an heating system and presumably a boiler which heats your hot water through coils in the cylinder. (We don’t call them a hot water tank.) If...

Some wonderful advice and all has been duly noted. Having assimilated all this I have decided to go down the following route. There is a twin socket near the patio door which will lead out into the new conservatory. As suggested I will cut out and fix a FCU below this and then spur off from...

I don't pretend to fully understand your layout and system but the symptoms indicate that you are simply getting an airlock in the HW supply. To give you an idication I will detail a similar problem many years ago. We had the job of installing HW systems to around thirty bungalow style...

Your own diagnosis of losing water is the only one really feasible in my opinion. Long retired I only worked on these boilers for a short period so I'm not fully up to speed on faults. However a drop in pressure has to be a leak somewhere on the system. It takes very little loss of water to...

Damocles, thanks for that. From your response and others I detect a lack of enthusiasm for my grand scheme so tomorrow will look at getting a supply from within the house. I simply thought that with the SWA being closer it would be easier and imagined that I would have to get both a lighting...

Thanks moderator will remember that. wemyss

The fuse in the house CU to the garage is a 20ampMCB What is a FCU?. The nearest S/O to the patio is a spur off the ring main and I understand that you shouldn't take another spur of an existing spur?. wemyss

Sorry if my message seems a little garbled in quoting your own comments but being my first post on this site I don't know how you paste into a little white box which I notice many of you have done. wemyss

Thanks for your reply BN. No the garage is not conected to the house and is about 5 metres away. It is supplied from the consumer unit by a pyro cable from the house CU which feeds into a 2 way consumer unit. One supplies a S/O ring and the other for the lights in the garage The supply to...

Having a conservatory built early in the new year and will be wiring it up myself. As a plumber can understand and carry out basic wiring but would appreciate advice on what I plan. Where the conservatory will be located is next to a patio window. I have a SWA 2.5 cable from my garage coming up...