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Please help with wiring a double light switch!

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  • alumende27
    alumende27 Posts: 363 Forumite
    you're quite right, sorry for my misinformation!
  • Hasbeen
    Hasbeen Posts: 4,404 Forumite
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    Usually ceiling light would have neutral feed direct to light from neutral connections, then brown live direct to switch from live connections. Black live from switch to light to supply power.

    If you have disconnected socket feed to wall lights and run brown black cable it would not be live as no power connections and no neutral.

    Do not understand how wall lights are live all the time??

    Get Sparky!!
    The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon
  • glasgowdan
    glasgowdan Posts: 2,968 Forumite
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    Got the sparky out this morning, and it was indeed a case of getting a neutral from another light switch to feed to the ceiling light. All wired up and working as it should now.

    Thanks for the comments and I'm just annoyed I couldn't do it myself. The spark did only charge £20 though so it's not too galling.
  • Risteard
    Risteard Posts: 2,000 Forumite
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    glasgowdan wrote: »
    The spark did only charge £20 though so it's not too galling.
    It is for him though. He'll be out of business very soon.
  • Billy_Bullocks
    Billy_Bullocks Posts: 524 Forumite
    Risteard wrote: »
    It is for him though. He'll be out of business very soon.

    What would you have charged him? €300 while you sat in your van on this forum. :rotfl:
  • glasgowdan
    glasgowdan Posts: 2,968 Forumite
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    Risteard wrote: »
    It is for him though. He'll be out of business very soon.

    Not so. The chap's in his 50s and been a spark for 15 years or so and does fully certified work for a number of local builders and joiners. One of those who does the job for what it is rather than as a business I guess.
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