Lighting problem

Debt_Free_Chick

I have an en-suite bathroom and separate en-suite dressing room to the main bedroom. The lights have stopped working in both en-suites. The only thing I'd done immediately before was to have turned the lights off in the bathroom and then back on, almost immediately.

Looking at the consumer unit, there is a single switch/circuit for "Upstairs lighting".All the other lights are working OK - only those in the en-suites are not.

All the switches on the consumer unit are "on".

Any ideas of what the problem could be and if I could fix it, please?

Possetjohn

Hi
What type of lighting is it? I assume separate switching in both en-suites
You have not mentioned checking the bulbs so I assume it is something different.
If it is recessed lighting (downlighters) it is likely to be low voltage in a bathroom and then it is possible a transformer has failed.
Post back some more details on the type and number of light fittings

keith969

Hard to say - what type of lights are they? If they are low voltage spotlights its possible that they are all wired off the same transformer, and that has gone. Or maybe they are off a fused spur (can't think why but you never know) and the fuse has blown.

If you can get into the loft above the lights you could check what they are wired to, it might give some clues.

Debt_Free_Chick

Thanks guys.

in the bathroom, recessed downlights - I assume low voltage. But also two ordinary wall lights. Recessed downlights in the dressing room.

Sounds like it might be a separate spur with the fuse blown - would that tie in with turning the lights off and then on again quickly?

If it is a separately fused spur, where would the fuse be?

keith969

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

If it is a separately fused spur, where would the fuse be?

Look for a fused switch - something like this:

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Wiring_Accessories_Menu_Index/White_Mk_Accessories/Spurs_13_Amp_Switched_4/index.html

Debt_Free_Chick

keith969 wrote: »

Look for a fused switch - something like this:

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Wiring_Accessories_Menu_Index/White_Mk_Accessories/Spurs_13_Amp_Switched_4/index.html

Thank you so much for this. Am I looking in the loft for this? Sorry - dumb, middle-aged, single woman here

keith969

No this would normally be fitted near the spur it is for, on the wall somewhere, maybe near a socket. I've never seen one used on a lighting circuit but there's no reason why not - if the lights were added in as an afterthought, it may have been easier to wire them as a fused spur off an existing ring circuit.

Edit: it might be an unswitched spur - still with a fuse though.

27col

Initially, I would be looking for a fused spur somewhere nearby. As has been suggested already. I have seen this done several times. Not sure why it should be thought necessary in an upstairs bathroom/ensuite, where access into the loft is easy. But there is no knowing what was in the installer's mind when it was done.

Possetjohn

As the others have said if the downlights and wall lights have all stopped at the same time it is posibly a fused spur. Strange though as the recessed lights would have been wired from the loft! (I assume there is a loft space over the rooms?)
The spur could be in the bedroom or dressing room, hopefully not in the loft! Some of them (not all) have a small neon power light. If you have any wardrobes look in the back of these and up near the ceilings as well.

A fused spur for lighting should have a max 5A fuse

Possetjohn

Have you managed to get it sorted?

27col

Don't you just hate it when the OP doesn't say what the outcome was.