What started as a simple task in my sisters house has turned into a total nightmare......

Basically it is an old(ish) house and has the system of wires were there is 7 wires for the light, of which several are looped.....

Its in the sitting room so there are two seperate lights run off 1 double switch.....

Currently no wires are connected up due to two different people having a bash at it and now we have no idea what is what......

One one side there is 1 constant live, an earth, 2 red wires (not live) and 2 black....

On the other there is one earth, 3 red and 3 black (no live)

We have had it connected up in such a way that the side with the constant live is working fine but in this scenario no matter what you do at the other side its not working, occasionally it will flicker at half light but never a fully switched live.....

We have a tester and you can end up with a switched live (black wire?) but when connected up it still doesn't work....

Is it possible during the various efforts at wiring the switch has blown or is it more likely that our wiring is just wrong.... anyone with any experience / advice on this please feel free as i am out of idea's... any wiring diagrams would be superb!!

I'm a qualified spark and to be honest if you can't work it out by continuity testing you should get someone who can. I'm not trying to be negative, if you lived next door I'd give you a hand. Best of luck.

Deano

No any advice is happily accepted.... we're getting to the stage where that is likely to be the option me thinks......

Cheers for the response....
Chris

yeah mate im a spark too cant make head nor tale of your info get someone from 'down the pub' ie cheap
tell em to bring a meter shudnt take long to sort it
good luck!

Cheers guys... got a tip re identifying wires so i'll give that a bash tonight... if not it'll need to be a homer me thinks for a spark....