Single light switch mysteriously swapped round

Scaffoldking · Post by **Scaffoldking** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:27 pm

My beloved is convinced that the single lightswitch in the bedroom has suddenly started working the opposite way. There are no other switches operating this light (guaranteed).
Although I have used the switch daily for 25 years I can’t be sure.
Is this possible or does one of us need to go and see a doctor?

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:34 pm

How do you suppose it has changed if there is only ONE Light switch controlling the light.

Have you had any "contractors" in recently?

kellys_eye · Post by **kellys_eye** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:42 pm

Scaffoldking wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:27 pm Although I have used the switch daily for 25 years I can’t be sure.

????

Is there (or was there) ever another entrance to that room? Is there a switch in a wall/recessed cupboard? Got (mischievous) kids/grandkids? All factors to be wary of!

Bob225 · Post by **Bob225** » Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:58 am

Push the bottom for ON and the top for OFF

Unless someone has turned the switch upside down

This covid lockdown can make the mind behave strangely - some young children have regressed due to the lack of Stimulation and social interaction, forgetting how to use a knife and fork etc.

camallison · Post by **camallison** » Wed Nov 11, 2020 10:33 am

I have an even stranger phenomenon - someone keeps moving switches to the other side of entrances to rooms. They're never where they were last time I was searching in the dark.
;-)

Colin

Dave54 · Post by **Dave54** » Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:39 am

When you say "guaranteed" no other switches, did you wire it up in the first place, or trace the wiring recently?
Bedrooms often have two way switching with a pull switch pull switch, not necessarily over where the is bed now. Anything in the back of a fitted wardrobe, down the back of furniture or anything like that where it's got inadvertently switched?

ericmark · Post by **ericmark** » Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:47 am

I would agree with @Dave54 seems likely a two way switch you have not found, how many wires connect to switch, 2 or 3?

Bob225 · Post by **Bob225** » Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:32 pm

Power off.................

Pop the switch off the wall, 2 wires its 1 way, 3 or 4 it has 2 way switching (excluding earth)