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thanks for all the advice, the problems have only occurred since an electrician installed new electrics to an extension on the house, i think he has used the existing board and fuses to add the new circuits to, since he has done the job there is a red 1mm (live?) cable loose in the box floating...

Thanks Plugwash, the 32A fuse question was just an additional query really, as i know what a ring circuit is...i was just unsure as to how safe having 4 wires going into one fuse is...that would suggest that there are two rings on one fuse?, which i dont think is right....i agree its a mess...

Can anyone explain some lighting problems im having. About a week ago all the lights started flickering when turned on (on one of the upstairs circuits) and then 5 days later they all died on that circuit. When i checked the fuse box, the live wire insulation had melted just above the fuse...

The switches are now wired...thanks to everyone for their advice. I joined the two upstairs lights so they switch together from either of the two upstairs switches and then ran two lengths of 4 core between the two upstairs switches and used two intermediate grid switches to provide switching...

thanks breezer, i will try that, ..im going to lay the new cable between the two existing two way switches (original 2way on the landing and downstairs) and connect it to the cable i laid previously (to the new light switch) via an intermeddiate switch, and then exchange the old two way switch...

ok, i can do that, but will that then give me control of all lights from all positions, i.e. what i would like to have is to be able to turn both upstairs lights on from downstairs (at the moment i can only turn one upstairs light on from this switch), and then for both upstairs switches to...

cheers for the replies, i had previously made a start by laying the 4-core cable between the new one-way switch and the nearest two way switch thinking that like you say, i needed an intermediate switch between the two two-way switches, and youre right it was alot of work!.. but then started to...

I have a two-way lighting circuit between an upstairs landing light and a downstairs hallway light. I have recently had an extension which has resulted in a second landing light which is controlled by a one-way switch on the landing. I would like to link all three lights, both upstairs landing...