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  • Sep 28, 2008, 03:32 PM
    david_71
    victorian house.ceiling lights.wiring?
    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.
  • Sep 28, 2008, 04:27 PM
    stanfortyman
    From the blue/brown wires, can we assume you are not in the US??
  • Sep 29, 2008, 02:34 PM
    david_71
    Aaah yeah, y'know I wondered if I may have been intruding on foreign turf!

    Does this make matters somewhat more complicated?

    This site seemed much better than the other Google options!

    Dave.
  • Sep 29, 2008, 03:25 PM
    stanfortyman
    There are a few UK/EU folks around here. I'm sure they'll be by shortly.

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