hot light switch and wall

I added lights and outlets to my basement and all of the outlets work fine. Before I started the switch on the wall controlled one light and all of the others had pull strings. I've tried everything but the switch will not turn off the remaining three lights. What did I do wrong...how do I fix it?...

Can you use a regular wall light switch when it says use a low voltage switch

My new ceiling light has black,white and green wires. My ceiling box has 1 single black,1 copper, 2 white grouped together and 2black and a 1white grouped together. How do I connect my new light with only 3 wires to all the ceiling box wires. I have a dimmer switch on one side of the room and a...

I have a bedroom wall outlet plug that is currently switched on/off by an existing wall swtich. I want to set up that switch to turn a new ceiling light on/off and leave the wall plug controlled also by the wall switch. Is this possible and safe to have the existing wall switch control both the...

Hi, I have a light fixure on the ceiling and want to replace that with a fan and light combo. I have a only one switch to control that but I want to replace that with 2 switches. I think I need to run another wire from switch to celing, is there another way this can be done?