Adding another light switch and lamp holder

[Lieutenant Columbo]

Yeah, I'm beginning to realise that. So how to i make it right? why doesn't the loft switch have a neutral? If I were to take a look at the other swiches in my house would i find others without neutral wires?

Most likely. A switch does not need a neutral, and if one is present it will just be looped out in a connector block. The neutral will be at the light fittings. The Wiki explains it well.

So... i would need to run a cable from the loft light itself and connect it to the hall light?

Is my current setup safe? I no it's not ideal, but is it safe.

The Wiki?

 

[winston1]

So... i would need to run a cable from the loft light itself and connect it to the hall light?

Is my current setup safe? I no it's not ideal, but is it safe.

The Wiki?

https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Electrics:Lighting-Circuit-layouts

 

[EFLImpudence]

Let's start again.

Forget what you have done.
The existing cable that goes to the loft light switch. Can you access the other end of it?

 

[Lieutenant Columbo]

Let's start again.

Forget what you have done.
The existing cable that goes to the loft light switch. Can you access the other end of it?

Yes... with difficulty.

 

[Lieutenant Columbo]

https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Electrics:Lighting-Circuit-layouts

Ah yes. Just as a suspected. I should get into the loft and somehow get a cable (L/N/E) from the existing light fitting (cdilng rose) and bring it to the new hall light I have installed. Then I need to drop another cable from the new light to the new switch.

What I've done is take a cable from the existing light switch for the loft and connect it to the new switch for the hall. I've then taken a cable from the new hall switch to the new hall light fixure.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I think what I'll do is start at the beginning, I.E, learm how a switch operates. What exactly the terminology means etc.
If you want to help, you could start there if you like.

I really think that would be the best thing at this stage.

• http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=electrical+circuits+(basics+OR+101)
  
  
• http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+house+wiring+(basics+OR+101)
  
  
• http://kevinboone.net/electricity.html
  
  
• http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/domesticinstallations.html
  
  
• https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Electrics:Lighting
  
  
• https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Electrics:books
  
  
• https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Electrics:index

 

[sparkwright]

SPare ?
There is no terminal (brass connector) in it.

Single pole.

 

[sparkwright]

Single pole, I'll think you'll find.

I don't think SP is actually labelling anything.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Scalable_POWERparallel