"Steve" wrote:

Hello Steve

S| We recently moved into a 3 year old house. After a few days
S| we noticed something odd with the lights. Basically unless
S| the downstairs hall light is switched on, the lounge and
S| dining room lights will not function.

Amazing.

S| I'm just trying to decide what to do. If it is going to be
S| complicated to fix then I think I'll just live with it as a
S| "feature".

Whoever wired the lounge and dining room lights obviously mistook the
switched live from the hall circuit as permanent live and wired from
that.

It's bad and implies the wiring was done by somebody bereft of clue.
Suggest you get a competent electrician in to check for other
"features".

To actually fix, you can move the feed for those rooms onto a
*permanent* live on the lighting circuit, having checked it's capable
of the load.

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Simon Avery, Dartmoor, UK
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