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Two added questions: Is the shed going to be wood, plastic or metal? 20Amp MCB is the correct size for this size cable - you don't need the additional RCD. SWA needs some skill and patience to work with? Your incoming cable if possible is better connected inside the shed. The shed circuit will...

I'm sorry but your reply doesn't make any sense. Does this switch turn more than one light on? If as you say there are three cables at this ceiling rose comprising 9 wires then either your ceiling rose has a loop in and loop out LNE and a SWL, N,E or if another light is linked to it, then you...

You need to forget what you thought or assumed because if the extension cables are not nicked and you have not cross wired somewhere along the extension then you only have the ceiling rose wires to check. You need to set you meter at the lowest Ohms setting m Ohms is too high- check it is...

If the lights worked before and they don't now and assuming you haven't messed with the switch, then you have changed something at the ceiling rose end. You have probably mixed the switch live with the neutral. Turn the power off and check it is off. Open the switch and check that you have a...

Moderator Alert - DIYNOT must stop and desist its activities now!!!! Lord BAS has spoken and the diktat dictate is - everyone MUST have a full understanding of their electrical project BEFORE they start work on it. In future only those with a full understanding how their project works will be...

There are there in the backbox second picture.

Not good to assume, but looking at the second photograph you can see that the location of the wires as photographed matches the terminal pins of the recently departed switch - one assume a double gang intermediate. For a double gang two way - as now amended. So the Top left red will go to the...

Have you driven around Liverpool recently on a Sunday - mayhem - scary - never seen so many cloth caps and glasses both male and female peering over the steering wheel. You take your live in your own hands if you take such a risk.:eek: There is no harder test..;)

Unfortunately, as well as photographing the side shot of the rear of the switch you also needed to make a diagram and mark each of the wires in someway so you new which terminal letters they went into. Did you do that? If you have separated out the one way wires (I assume downstairs hall light)...

I was trolling along.......going for the big o n e 0.......

Okay then - if you have all the facts, all the knowledge, all the parts and all the 'testing equipment' then stop posting here and just get on with it.

If you are not replacing the electric shower then I do not believe you need to introduce an RCD into the circuit. If you do change the shower then there is nothing to stop you introducing a single RCD unit into the circuit - perhaps in a nearby airing cupboard if wiring permits. Something like...

Unfortunately, this just emphasises my point that the person who came to your house to install a relatively simple two way lighting arrangement is not an electrician. He imagines he is an electrician but is deluding both you and himself if he thinks he is. As for teaching you..... well it only...

This is the OP's second post on the same subject in the last few days although this one starts with the regulations. http://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/eclique-dimmer-switch-help.437262/ He mentioned the 'imaginary electrician' in this out take.

Untitled by riveralt posted 20 Apr 2012 at 3:26 PM[

I blame it all on his 'three day electrician'!;) To the OP, when you next go to Toolstation and before you start messing about with the JB, A: pick up a Multi-meter learn how to use it and B: study the wiki site for UK Electrics, particularly the part to do with lighting. I say this because I...

Still don't know what you mean by split live. From the ceiling rose use T&E with the permanent live to the Live on the switch and the switch live (load) returns to the ceiling rose at the switch live terminal. Then use your strappers to link the two switches.

Given the problems you have had trying to decipher a relatively straight forward two way lighting circuit, do you really want to start messing about that multi-wired (possibly ten or eleven cables) junction box. My advice - solve one problem at a time - you haven't sorted the two way out yet -...

I've been telling him that for the past few hours but he is not listening. And I haven't a clue why he is insisting on introducing a JB into the circuit.

I assume you mean 514.11.1. In which case I agree - but I have never been asked for it on inspection tests. Clearly this would apply to the double gang dimmer the OP is talking about here. Two solutions firstly put the landing and downstairs lights on their own circuit though there might be a...