I've been a bit silly and need help asap please. I'm helping my mate sort out his recently deceased parent's house ready for selling, they were heavy smokers and he's had the walls painted but left the brown stained light switches and plug sockets!
I've swapped most of the light switches now, like for like. But his living room one I've messed up on, I unscrewed it without making note of where the wires went!
So it's a 3 gang switch 1 way. 1 switch does one ceiling light in the room, another switch does 2 wall lights in the room, and last switch does outdoors garden light.
The weird thing is, there's only 2 pairs of cables for the switch so I really can't get my head around how it can control 3 separate lights.
There was 2 red wires strapped between points on it too! I literally have no idea how to put this back together. Here's a photo of the old switch I've got on my desk here and the 2 straps, the new switch has the same connection points (only difference is new switch says L rather than COMMON)...
Here is a photo of the wires in the wall...
I've promised I will go around there Monday night to sort it out so I will be mega super grateful for the answer as I was only trying to be supportive of my mate through this hard time he's having.
I've swapped most of the light switches now, like for like. But his living room one I've messed up on, I unscrewed it without making note of where the wires went!
So it's a 3 gang switch 1 way. 1 switch does one ceiling light in the room, another switch does 2 wall lights in the room, and last switch does outdoors garden light.
The weird thing is, there's only 2 pairs of cables for the switch so I really can't get my head around how it can control 3 separate lights.
There was 2 red wires strapped between points on it too! I literally have no idea how to put this back together. Here's a photo of the old switch I've got on my desk here and the 2 straps, the new switch has the same connection points (only difference is new switch says L rather than COMMON)...
Here is a photo of the wires in the wall...
I've promised I will go around there Monday night to sort it out so I will be mega super grateful for the answer as I was only trying to be supportive of my mate through this hard time he's having.