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Bingo, this is on the exterior side of the wall! (Again, the daft upload has rotated pic by 90degrees! Must only like landscape orientation?) Guessing that's a SWA spur to the garage. And it explains why I couldn't pull the box out at all - there's absolutely no give in that cable! :x...

Thanks Les - you may be onto something there. Someone at work just suggested it could be a spur to another socket, but i couldn't think where to - but you may have just solved that. We do have a detached garage, and there is power to it - a light and a single socket, which i haven't tested...

Hi Gary. No, there's not another socket. It's on an exterior wall (still cavity/dry lined though). The other downstairs socket i've changed was also on an exterior wall (actually thinking about it, they all are!). Just remembered the electricity box/meter is on the other side of the wall...

Thanks DaftPunk! Balls. I don't get that - every other switch of socket I've looked at has a plastic box, why's this one different?! Annoying. It is the docket directly below the fuse box, so don't know if that's why? I couldn't see that the brass ring would budge, & couldn't get the angle...

Evening all! Hoping someone can help me. Whilst decorating upstairs a while back, I changed over our switches and sockets for more decorative ones. This included converting a couple of single sockets to doubles. All of the sockets I changed had plastic dryline boxes in the plasterboard...

Not great quality, sorry! Other side Ha ha! It's the only way he'll learn (that I'm a cruel father!)

We have light! LIIIIIIGHT! Thanks so much! All done, all lights now working, including the new (old) rose/pendant! Thanks so much for all your help. Feels great to have got it working! :D The offending light fitting. Why on earth they thought this was a good idea in the hall immediately...

Thanks for that, that's great. I meant to say a piece of red tape came off the blue wire when I unwrapped it. I'd actually just come to some of those conclusion myself, having had another look at it, but you've filled in some important gaps & reassured me that I was on the right lines...

I'm an utter novice, but that looks like some blinkin dodgy wiring to me!!

I'd much rather replace the whole rose, but that's my problem - I don't know how to wire in the new rose! Tape removed, looks like this :- The blue wire (from the white cable) goes to the blue wire to the lamp. The 3 black wires go to the brown wire to the lamp. The yellow wire (from...

2 lighting circuits - upstairs & downstairs. It's a really old fuse-wire mains tho. I've harvested a brass 3 terminal centre block from one of the old pendants, so I'll try wiring the 3 reds into that and wrapping in insulation tape.

It's a 2 gang plate with 3 switches controlling 3 lights. 1 of which is 2-way (not the one I'm changing). I guess that explains the difference. I checked the fuse first of all - it's intact. Could something I did upstairs have stopped the downstairs lights working? As I say, upstairs is...

Hi, thanks for replying. Sorry, it's probably my language causing confusion. Maybe they weren't live/neutral/earth, but there were 3 cables - in, out & switch. Each had 1 red, 1 black & 1 earth. I wired in the new light as per the existing one. Setup was virtually identical, except the...

Hi all. Hoping someone can help. I've just changed our 3 manky old ceiling rose/pendants upstairs, with new mk replacements. No issues at all - 3 grey cables in with live/neutral/earth. Fine. Whilst I was in the mood, I'd thought I'd replacement the ancient heavy brass ceiling lamp with a...