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Hi all, About two weeks ago I had a roofing company do the complete roof. The original tiles were concrete tiles but we opted for the ridged tiles to match the neighbouring property. Anyway the roofing was done and all completed on one day and all looked good. I have only recently went...

I just want to keep the option of completely switching it off, as the other PIR's in my house are wired to be. Most of the time they will be on all the time, but its just in case. Would I achieve this by how I intend to wire this? So at the switch I can simply cut the single twin and earth...

Interested to know too, as have the same issue which i'd like to correct :)

Can anyone confirm if what I intend to do on my previous post will be safe and ok to achieve what i want it to do? Need to get this wired in now but just want to ensure all will be ok.

Thanks for the replies and help - appreciated. Just a bit of info about the lantern - it is a motion detector lantern and is designed to switch on at night when motion is detected. During the day the photocell sensor saves electricity by deactivating the lantern. This is the exact light i'm...

I am still a bit confused. Would you be able to clarify? Having thought about it and created this diagram, I think i've now got it right, but just want to make sure i'm not creating a problem here. For ease I just shown where the cores are (earthing left out). Can someone confirm if this is...

Thanks for your reply. Sorry I meant its connected to the neutral three terminal block and not the switched live two terminal block. The live wire is then connected to the central loop terminal block (along with the other live wires). The two terminal block is indeed switched. I haven't...

Hi, I'm a newbie here and am currently trying to wire in a new exterior PIR light but am a little confused as to how to wire in a switch. There is no existing wiring so I have so far used this very helpful guide (//www.diynot.com/pages/el/el032.php#a0) to run a new wire from the...