Moving switch position

[600rob]

Ive got a ceiling mounted pull cord switch for the extractor fan in the bathroom(1st floor).
The light switch is mounted on the wall outside the room.

Id like to move the switch for the fan outside next to the light switch


Assuming i take care of the cable routing, is it just a case of using a maintenance free box to join a length of appropriate cable to the existing cable in the loft for the ceiling mounted switch, then routing the extended length down through the wall to the switch position?

Rather than having two separate wall switches could i have both wired into a 2 gang switch?

 

[securespark]

Depends.

Are both the light and the fan on the same circuit?

Is the pull cord for fan used to trigger it to come on or is it a triple pole isolation switch?

 

[600rob]

Are both the light and the fan on the same circuit?

When i turn off the lighting circuit power at the consumer unit both the light and the fan have their power cut off.

Is the pull cord for fan used to trigger it to come on or is it a triple pole isolation switch?

The the pull cord manually switches the fan on and off like a regular switch.

However, there is another bathroom connected to the same fan and has the same on/off pull cord switch. Both bathrooms also previously had humidity sensors which automatically triggered the fan to go on but these have been disconnected and we've just been using the pull cords as manual switches

the switch in question (on the right) ,removed sensor on the left.

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• 600rob
• 9 Apr 2021

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• 600rob
• 11 Apr 2021

wiring from both pull cords and both sensors were all joined in a connector block/JB in the loft

 

[600rob]

anyone else able to offer any more info on this?