Updated light switched and power socket but not sure which ones to buy?

[ban-all-sheds]

I'd earth the switch, so that it's always protected - even when not screwed into the back box.

So would I.

And as to my comment on the "middle" light switch, as Infinity was compiling a list bits he needed, I assumed from his description of how the lights were operated, that there was one down stairs, one upstairs (which would have been an intermediate), and then a further one at the end of the corridor. We're all working from a distance, and sometime we're right, and sometime wrong.

In my bedroom the ceiling light is operated by:

1. A switch on the wall right by the door - you don't even have to be in the room to reach it.
2. A switch on the wall to the left of the headboard of the bed.
3. A switch on the wall to the right of the headboard of the bed.

Which is the intermediate one?

 

[winston1]

Don't know. You need to look, but must likely one of the bedside ones.

 

[Infinity]

Sorry to cause all this hassle guys.

I have one single switch downstairs and two single switches upstairs on either side on the stairs. I'll open them up and take some pics.
Thanks

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Don't know. You need to look,

No I don't, because I know.

 

[Echo the husky]

Which is the intermediate one?

It's the one that requires the most force to operate?

 

[deadshort]

It's the one with 4 wires and you can't get it in the finish you want without paying a small fortune!

DS

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Guess I was lucky to be quite happy with a basic white plastic finish.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The point is that Aspergers or no, this:

If you've got 3 light switches, then the middle one will be an intermediate.

is nonsense.

And could be very misleading to someone who doesn't really understand how his switching works