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In addition to the OP, I am having to replace popped bulbs all over the house every 4 months or so. In the year that I have lived here I must have replaced every bulb in the house at least once. This is in a house that is newly built. What puzzles me is that the MCB trips every time a bulb...

This is the part of the diagram I was referring to. As breezer explains in his text, and in fact in your case, the switch cable is normal T&E. What you need to do is to restore the wiring to how it was before you started and identify which of the two cables runs to the switch. I'm not going to...

I would hazard a guess that you should have connected the light to the two black wires. One of the cables is the live feed from the consumer unit and the other is the wiring to the switch. One of the cables should have had the black marked, ideally with red tape, to indicate 'switched live' as...

Like the French use of 'donc' at the end of a phrase, I find that more and more people seem to use 'so' at the end of a statement, leaving you to fill in the rest for yourself. By way of reply, I usually force them to finish whatever it was they were trying to say before they ran out of...

I opted for a 'wires only' broadband provision, as I already had a modem/router. The master socket is now the only socket where I can get dialtone, all the others are silent. Three are provided in the house wiring, i.e. in the walls, and one extra was added (by BT, and he checked for DT at all...

Yep, that's what is puzzling. Broadband - OK; Phone - zilch

Since I moved house four months ago I have never had to use the dial-up modem in my PC as I've always used broadband. Decided to flog my second PC as it was proving redundant so I stripped it back to basics and configured it for dial-up. (It was previously set up for broadband on the LAN.) Now...