Moving 1 light switch out of 3 gang light switch (with pic)

[blawes1]

Hi,

I hope you can help me.

My 3 gang switch operates 2 lights in the living room ( 1 way switching) and a landing light (2 way switching). I am putting in a new wall so I need to move the switch that control the "lounge" as in the picture to the new wall and use a single dimmer switch. The other 2 switches will remain where they are although I would like to put them into a 2 gang switch.

Can anyone advise me if this is possible with the wiring in the pic and what I would need to do. I have access to the floorboards above to make the moving easy but the cables have got me completely stumped.

Landing switch has: Red in L1. Black in L2 and shared Red Common
New Hall has : Black in L1 and shared Red Common
Lounge has: Grey to L1 and shared Red Common (This is the switch I want to move)

Many thanks

Bernard



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[Steve]

Seems easy enough. Remove the COM link between hall and lounge. And remove that grey wire, which will go all the way up to the lounge light.

Then run a new twin and earth drop wire from the louge light to the new switch. Easy (providing there is a permenant live at the lounge light - check this).

If there is no permenant live at the lounge light, you'll need to use a bit of that grey wire to run the COM link to the new switch, in the same way as those short reds are currently being used.

 

[blawes1]

Thank you Crafty.........that makes sense to me now.

Bernard