Advice please

[Sue0331]

I have a light switch in my kitchen that controls two separate lights. The kitchen one and one in the dining room. The dining room light also has another switch located separate to the other switch.
My problem is the dining room switch doesn't work properly, if I turn the light off by the switch in the kitchen I can't turn it on with the switch in the dining room and vice versa.
Can someone please tell me how to rewire the two way switch in the kitchen. I only have 6 wires, two reds, two blacks and two earths. Inside the switch itself there is another red wire going from one of the terminals to the other but isn't fixed wire. I have taken a photo to show what is happening. The left hand side controls the dining room light.
Any advice would be gladly appreciated

 

[Lectrician]

Swap the two reds in the left hand switch.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Kitchen light switch

• Sue0331
• 19 May 2013
• 1

 

[Taylortwocities]

Swap the two reds in the left hand switch.

If that does not work.
Swop them back and post a picture of the dining room light switch wiring.

 

[Sue0331]

Thank you. I will try that and let you know how it goes

 

[Sue0331]

Thank you so much as that did the job. Really appreciate your help :0)

 

[ban-all-sheds]

So basically you don't actually understand how lighting circuits work, what switches do etc, and have used trial-and-error to get to a working configuration.

That is so NOT the way to approach electrical work.

• http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=electrical+circuits+101
  
  
• http://kevinboone.net/electricity.html
  
  
• http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/domesticinstallations.html
  
  
• //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:books
  
  
• //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics