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No lights working in house, upstairs or downstairs

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.56 PM

I tried to replace my bathroom light pull, now no lights are working in the full house. All other electrics are working. House is in a state of renovation and I'm doing it all myself. I only know a little about electrics, enough to wire lights and change plug facings, that's about it. I was pulling down panneling off the bathroom ceiling and had to remove the light pull switch. The original was very old, and had no markings, and all the wires are red! I've no idea what ones are live and what ones are neutral. Managed to get it working eventually by sheer luck, only to find no other lights in the house were working. Tried to swap wires around as assumed I'd wired something the wrong way, now nothing is working again! Please help!

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Anonymous user

Clearly you don't know enough about electrics to wire your own lights because you've changed something and wired it incorrectly! There are no neutrals. The three wires are all lives, loop-in loop-out and switched live. You have split the live loops, cutting the live supply to the rest of the lighting circuit. You need to have the loops together in the common terminal and the switched live on its own in the L1 or L2 terminal. The neutrals will be in the light fittings.

Answered8 January 2021