Last week we finished up a rewire on a three bedroom semi. The garage had already been rewired a couple of years ago and all tested out ok so we just reconnected the garage up to the new consumer unit. As a little extra for the customer, as this really was an easy job, I converted the lighting in the garage into two way.
To give you a little more information and insight into the setup of the garage and lighting circuit, The switch patress you can see in the picture above had basicly a one gang one way switch fitted to it and this is inside the garage just next to the up and over garage door. Just the place I would put it, I hear you say! Well at the other end of the garage is a single door into the kitchen of the house. I think you can probably guess where I am going with this one! Yes, there was no switch at this end of the garage.
It must have taken me less than 15 minutes to install another switch at this end of the garage and run a triple cable over to the other switch. 7 metres of cable roughly.
I will never understand why when electricians do this type of work, even if it isn't in the price, for what its worth, and of course the convenience to the house holder, and I'm not even going to mention health and safety here, why this was not put in originally. I would love to hear from other electricians on this. Would you, while you were rewiring this garage, have put two way switching here?
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