Sounds like a bodge to me, but have you thought of perhaps putting in a
radio controlled switch in the original place and using a glued on battery
operated remote which you can put wherever you want it. As long as you can
get to it to change the batteries it should work well over such a short
distance.
Brian

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I'm planning to re-hung 2 doors to open in the opposite way and want to
change the light switches to suit.

They are on (very tough) brick walls, with very limited access to under
floor/above ceiling, so no easy way to go about it without the need for
quite major re-decoration after (which I want to avoid if at all
possible...).

The builder who did our extension several years ago did a similar thing at
our request to another door/switch. The guy that carried out the work was
a qualified electrician that the builder employed.

I watched him at the time, and this is what he did:

- Crimped an extension to the cable(s) from the position of the "old"
switch
- Chiselled/chased a shallowish (5-6cm) channel along the 15cm from the
switch to be removed to the door frame.
- Chased a channel along the 15cm from the door frame to the position of
the new switch.
- Chiselled a space for the new switch.
- Temporarily removed the door's architrave
- Ran the cable(s) along the channels and around the door in the gap
behind the architrave to the new switch position.
- Replaced architrave
- Installed new switch
- Plastered over chased channels old switch.


Is this an acceptable solution? Does it comply with current regulation?

PS: He was responsible for a lot of electrical work at the time (very
substantial extension), and I was less than impressed by the quality of
his work in general (part of it perhaps was the result of constantly being
rushed by the builder).