Lights stopped working

[RidleyRumpus]

I have two different lights that have stopped working.

I have checked the fuses, they're ok, checked the bulbs and they're ok.

When I checked in the wall switch I seem to have no live at all in either wall switch, which makes me think there must be something in the attic that's gone faulty, junction box maybe?

Any ideas on where I should start?

 

[pete01]

At the consumer unit, anything tripped?

 

[RidleyRumpus]

No. All checked and working ok. Other lights on same circuit working fine.

 

[pete01]

Fused connection unit (spur) hidden somewhere?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I have two different lights that have stopped working.

When I checked in the wall switch I seem to have no live at all in either wall switch, which makes me think there must be something in the attic that's gone faulty, junction box maybe?

Where are the two lights actually located?

How many lighting circuits, do you have?

How did you check, that you had no live at the switches?

 

[RidleyRumpus]

The two light are not adjacent to each other, ones in the living room the other next to the kitchen. The consumer unit is in the kitchen.

There is only one circuit downstairs.

I checked with a multimeter to earth

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I checked with a multimeter to earth

Did you confirm the meter was working, and are you sure the earth, was actually earthed?

 

[RidleyRumpus]

Yes to both

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

As it's the ground floor, of - I am assuming a two-storey home, depending on the age of the installation - most likely the live will be looped from ceiling rose, to ceiling rose, and those two lights and switches, will be the last two on the loop. Try testing the reds (or browns) where they loop in and out at the ceiling rose.

 

[RidleyRumpus]

Testing for what?

 

[SUNRAY]

Testing for what?

volts

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Testing for what?

If you remove the covers from the ceiling roses, of the lights which do not work, you will find there is one terminal strip with two red, or browns in it, of the fixed wiring - except for the final rose on the loop, which will only have one. Those should show as live.

Most commonly - The L, N, and E - run from the fuse/MCB/RCBO, and then loop into each ceiling rose, then onto the next. But, you will need to investigate exactly how it has been done, depending on age, the looping might have been done in joint boxes hidden in the ceiling.