two way light switch problem

[Lectrician]

The word TAPED is the point here!

Insulation tape has it's place, but to use it as 'insulation', strangely enough, is not what us sparks use it for!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The wires are well taped independantly and then an overall tape.
They are not 'loose wires hanging down' as you sugested.

Well - in your original post you said:

"At the moment I,ve just taped the two cables to each other and now it works off the one switch"

If you've got 2-way switching, and you remove one switch, you have to join some of the wires together to replicate one of the switch positions or the remaining one will not work.

So if you have joined them by taping them together, then you have done a Bad Thing™, not a Safe Thing.....