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Hi Wonder if anyone can give me some advice? A switch on the main electrics board in my house for the downstairs lighting circuit keeps tripping - this switch being one of maybe eight which presumably are for other circuits. Not really sure what the official word for these switches is...

When i had this problem I put newspaper strips on about three quarters of the masking tape, which reduced the area stuck to the wall but leaves enough of the adhesive side to hold it up. This reduced the amount being pulled off significantly, but there were still small areas that I had to touch up.

Thanks all sorted now.

Steve, That'll be it then !! Guess it would have helped if the Junction box arrived with some instructions, but they you go. Thanks for your time in advising me. Will attempt to sort it tomorrow. Phil

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is a multimeter ?

John, I figured it out by wiring up one light to the external wire and finding that the switch controlled it. In terms of the Junction box the red input is connected to both red out puts, same for the blacks with the earths isolated at each connector, ie not joined across the connector. The...

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Ok Steve, will do give me ten minutes or so . Thanks

Its an MK Junction Box.... grey with water tight seals on the entries and joints with four possible connection points and exits/entry points. In the box for the input I wired red, black and earth to the top connector then from this I had two reds of the same thickness/type coming out from...

When I moved into my house there was an approx. 3 mm thick grey wire extruding from the brickwork at the back about 2.5 metres from the floor. I figured out this was connected to a switch in the nearest bedroom which has a fuse point and light below the switch. I wired the cable into a...