Pedge wrote:

using the switch and for nobody to use the lights in the living room. Two
of these cables were of course leading back to the circuit but I had
temporarily ceased each others contact.


Ah, are you saying that you have one set of lights in the living room
with one switch, but there are two cables at the switch position (i.e. 2
x earth, Neutral and Live)?

If that is the case, then that room at least is not wired with the
standard loop in arrangement. A bit of tracing and identifying seems to
be in order here!

--
Cheers,

John.

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