RE: single & earth??? wiring help needed!

["JT @ Home" <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its his sisters property (which she owns - whilst his property is in
Scotland) which I understand will allow this to be all legit?

I managed to sort it out in the end.

The wiring in the house is in a bit of a mess, its an ex local authority
and
seems to have been messed about with over the years. I found the t+e that
came up from the ground floor, tapped into this, and ran the cable to the
new fitting. Everything works perfectly. The issue with confusion arose due
to the bedroom light fitting having red's either side (connected to the
live, and to the neutral, but obviously one of the reds is a neutral) and
the light switch had connections to l1 & l2 - but no 2way switching.

After discussion with my sparky mate, it looks like the house is going to
be
re-wired next year... one thing for sure, I'm not going in the loft, itchy
doesn't come into it!
Jonathan



-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ian Oliver
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:51 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] single & earth??? wiring help needed!

In article , JT @ Home wrote:
> the owners brother is an electrician (also a friend of mine) and
> he's just left sunny Sheffield to go and live in Greenock and has
asked me
> to do this, on the proviso when he's next down here, he'll come and
check
> everything.

It makes no difference - qualified electricians now can't work on their own
properties!  No, really!

Ian Oliver
Sunny Leeds, UK
Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire