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Hello everybody
I am wanting to do exactly what my customers do all the time - namely alter the electrical installation after decoration......
I want to install a circuit for a bedside light in two rooms - one is my 4 yo's (room A) and one is for my second child next door (room B).
Each light is to have two-way switching (one near bed and one near door).
But due to new decor, I cannot fit swiches/ sockets for the bedside lights next to the beds as these walls are solid.
I propose to fit sockets for the lights in a stud wall a few feet away from each bed (the wall dividing bedrooms A & B).
One of the switches for each light can also be mounted in a plasterboard wall adjacent to the door without disturbance, but the switches adjacent to the bed cannot be flush-mounted, again due to solid walls.
I would like to fit a "klick" outlet into the dividing stud wall for each of these switches (ie 4 terminal outlet wired to C, L1 & L2, and cpc) and run a "floating switch" (ie one connected to the outlet via flex) from it.
I have seen two-way floating switches connected with flex before, but are they still available?
I know wireless switches are available (tlc easySWITCH), but don't fancy anything surface-mounted. Plus, in this instance, it would work out very expensive to provide an easySWITCH soln.
Any ideas?
I am wanting to do exactly what my customers do all the time - namely alter the electrical installation after decoration......
I want to install a circuit for a bedside light in two rooms - one is my 4 yo's (room A) and one is for my second child next door (room B).
Each light is to have two-way switching (one near bed and one near door).
But due to new decor, I cannot fit swiches/ sockets for the bedside lights next to the beds as these walls are solid.
I propose to fit sockets for the lights in a stud wall a few feet away from each bed (the wall dividing bedrooms A & B).
One of the switches for each light can also be mounted in a plasterboard wall adjacent to the door without disturbance, but the switches adjacent to the bed cannot be flush-mounted, again due to solid walls.
I would like to fit a "klick" outlet into the dividing stud wall for each of these switches (ie 4 terminal outlet wired to C, L1 & L2, and cpc) and run a "floating switch" (ie one connected to the outlet via flex) from it.
I have seen two-way floating switches connected with flex before, but are they still available?
I know wireless switches are available (tlc easySWITCH), but don't fancy anything surface-mounted. Plus, in this instance, it would work out very expensive to provide an easySWITCH soln.
Any ideas?