Hi, I have a living room with one ceiling light at one end (was a separate room originally but previous owners knocked through) and 3 wall lights at the other end and there are 2 individual light switches next to each other (one was a 2-way dimmer on the wall lights, and I think the ceiling light may have been on a dimmer as well, but cant remember!).
I wanted to replace these with 2 new switches to put the wall lights on a dimmer and the ceiling light on a simple on/of switch. Unfortunately whilst putting new doors in the builders needed to pull the cables out before I had a chance to see how the switches were wired up.
What I now have is two single back boxes, next to each other. The first one was to the wall lights and this has two single core red cables. I wired an on/of switch to this the wall lights work fine.
The other box just has one single core red cable, which runs from the ceiling light, and an earth cable.
There were some cables running between the switches originally, but im not sure what exactly as they were pulled out before I saw them.
The ceiling light rose has two black cables (in one connector block), one red cable and an earth cable, which I have put into a new ceiling rose – red to loop in, blacks to neutral and earth to earth (theres no cable in the switch cable block).
However, I cant seem to get the ceiling lights to work
. ...I have tried replacing the switches, bulbs and ceiling rose in case they were faulty and they are all working fine.
Can anyone please help me get my ceiling light back
I wanted to replace these with 2 new switches to put the wall lights on a dimmer and the ceiling light on a simple on/of switch. Unfortunately whilst putting new doors in the builders needed to pull the cables out before I had a chance to see how the switches were wired up.
What I now have is two single back boxes, next to each other. The first one was to the wall lights and this has two single core red cables. I wired an on/of switch to this the wall lights work fine.
The other box just has one single core red cable, which runs from the ceiling light, and an earth cable.
There were some cables running between the switches originally, but im not sure what exactly as they were pulled out before I saw them.
The ceiling light rose has two black cables (in one connector block), one red cable and an earth cable, which I have put into a new ceiling rose – red to loop in, blacks to neutral and earth to earth (theres no cable in the switch cable block).
However, I cant seem to get the ceiling lights to work
. ...I have tried replacing the switches, bulbs and ceiling rose in case they were faulty and they are all working fine.Can anyone please help me get my ceiling light back
