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OK I'm pretty certain there is no permanent live going to the back room lighting circuit. I had a spare one gang switch which I attached to the black and red from the back room and got nothing at all. There are only three wires going into the ceiling rose, I believe that those three wires go...

I know why the two reds where still bridged

Just to let you know i swapped the blacks and reds. I got the same result, back light always on and front room could be switched on and off BUT it worked via the other switch if that makes sense.

I will go and buy a new switch tomorrow. Please could you tell me the correct way to wire it up tomorrow because im a bit confused. Thanks for the help its appreciated.

I've swapped the connector to make sure it was OK. How its wired at the moment I have permanent light in the back and the front room light can be switched on and off lol.

Ok i will bridge them and report back, where should the black cables be going at this point ? Thanks

My mistake, the connector is just extending the black from the back room. Someone cut it to short.

Ahh OK It looks like its just used to extend the neutral from the back room.

I have no idea which is the black from the back room. If I bridged the coms would that work ?

Thanks for the replys EFImpudence. I don't think the switch is a duffer! I actually have it like that at the minute but only the front room light is on.

Yeh I tried that but only one light comes on in the front room. I would like it so I can have both lights on or off or one on and one off.

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with wiring a double gang switch to operate two separate lights. I have what was two separate rooms but now knocked through into one big room. My front room and back room downstairs. They both had there own lights obviously . At the moment they are wired as...