david_71
Sep 28, 2008, 03:32 PM
Hi
Here's my issue. Given that I'm a complete putz when it comes to anything diy, I'm finding this electrical problem mind blowing.
2 ceiling lights in one sittng room (that USED to be 2 rooms, dinning room and lounge but now knocked through)
#1 light fitted, NO problem. In the rose were 1 red / 1 black in a terminal to which I attached my lamp using 1 blue / 1 brown. Fine.
#2 light fitting hasn't been so easy! ;
In the ceiling there's 3 red bunched into 1 terminal / 3 black bunched into terminal next to red, (and what appears to be 1 red / 1 black in a dead end terminal going to nothing).
So I attached my 1 blue / 1 brown to the terminal with the reds and blacks and when I put the fuse back in, the light itself appaears to be perminantly live, not reacting to either of light switches at either end of the room. The #1 light however reacts to both light switches!!
My house is old (1893) and my Dad says everything he has uncovered so far has been bodged!!
HELP!!
David.
Here's my issue. Given that I'm a complete putz when it comes to anything diy, I'm finding this electrical problem mind blowing.
2 ceiling lights in one sittng room (that USED to be 2 rooms, dinning room and lounge but now knocked through)
#1 light fitted, NO problem. In the rose were 1 red / 1 black in a terminal to which I attached my lamp using 1 blue / 1 brown. Fine.
#2 light fitting hasn't been so easy! ;
In the ceiling there's 3 red bunched into 1 terminal / 3 black bunched into terminal next to red, (and what appears to be 1 red / 1 black in a dead end terminal going to nothing).
So I attached my 1 blue / 1 brown to the terminal with the reds and blacks and when I put the fuse back in, the light itself appaears to be perminantly live, not reacting to either of light switches at either end of the room. The #1 light however reacts to both light switches!!
My house is old (1893) and my Dad says everything he has uncovered so far has been bodged!!
HELP!!
David.