How to Wire a Two Way Light Switch | 2 Way Switching For Beginners

Really good video sir.

Excellent. Well explained for the DIY ENTHUSIASTS for Home Use of Wiring a Lighting Circuit with 2 Way Switches! (with TOGGLE SWITCH)

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Thanks for the video, this makes perfect sense, however I’ve got 2 light switches in my living room that control the centre rose and both switches only have 3 wires 🤔. I can’t remember whether it’s ever worked, but basically you can switch it on with the first switch, then off or on with the second switch. But to use that second switch, the first has to be in the on position! Likewise if the 2nd switch is in its off position, the first won’t work! No wire markings so I don’t know what is what and it’s not so easy to reach the rose and switches with a multimeter. Am baffled.

Thanks for good video.Well explained.There is a flaw with looping supply in ceiling roses to chain all lights.Imagine there is a fault and lights are flickering in some rooms.You'd have do go through all roses to check all connections not knowing how place has been wired up.
For me every room should have individual cable supplying lights.Obviously this would involve opening consumer unit and checking connections there.Which for me would be faster.
Also if someone without electrical knowledge opens up light switches or roses and by mistake removes sleeves while disconnecting some cores it will consuse everyboidy after trying to fix whole wiring.
For me cables labeling is something should be as standard.

my problem is putting a new switch on an old curcuit where the back is brown and old to a new modern day switch that is grey, i put the wires in the same holes com l1 l2 exetra but the light went all dicky any ideas?

Absolutely brilliant tutorial 👏 Thank you so much. Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing more of the tutorials.

Got to admit your explanation has saved my brain from a lot of stress wiring old 50 plus conduit thanks for your time and making it easy

Hmm, it looks like in my house wiring it is the opposite. So what you have in your ceiling rose, I have in the switch and vice versa. How would this work?

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Excellent video, so clear and understandable, thank you 🤟🏻

Why is my chandelier light permanently on??? Is the rose wired incorrectly?

Your videos are an absolute lifesaver, our lounge was clearly wired up for two way lighting (two points of entry) but for whatever reason the old owner only had one switch.

There are guides on Google images that show the live wires going into COM which i tried first and no surprise, nothing happened.

Came back to your video which I also watched when changing a ceiling light and voila - two working switches.

Now show a diyer how to wire a 2way circuit with the live at one switch and the switch wire at the other if there house is wired in singles and earth. 😂

U must be a professor lovely way u explained soo easy

Great - finally I understand..! You’ve just saved me thousands…

Ive subscribed to your channel..amazing..thanks for the knowledge

Awesome! Thanks 🎉

Great video, cheers

I like how it was explained to me in a pepa pig accent 😎

How do you know which is the loop in from previous room/consumer unit?

Hello buddy did exactly what you said however it is not letting turn off the lights it turns on but doesnt turn off from the other swtich

It's called a three-way dude, not a two-way. The fact this isn't already the top comment tells me this post is probably going to be removed by mods.

Warning to everyone from the US when he says isolate the circuit, what do you means is turn off the circuit which would be at the fuse box you have to find the circuit and turn it off isolated in America would mean to just send it to the side, which is impossible

I always use 1.5 for lighting

Goooood man

How archaic is all this. Put smart bulbs in and you can have 2 , 3, 4 and on switching just adding smart switches. No wiring , completely safe to all.

If the backbox is metal and face plate is plastic, do we still need earth either of them?

Great Job !👍

Thanks!

Can you wire an outside light from an inside light switch? as there is no seperate power source, only an existing room light switch. Do you still require a 5A fused switch?

What about if you live in a modern house that has no roses and everything is in the lights switches? There are so many wires behind my lightswitches!

Very useful and clear video on a common banana skin!

We live and learn!! Many Thanks

Great videos mate really enjoy learning from them

You can buy twin brown + cpc twin and earth cable,it would be good electrical practice to do so but contractors are too lazy to buy a small reel of this type of cable

What do you call the 3core earth that has the grey sleeve on it I can only find standard stuff 2.5T&E

You didn't double back your connections????

Normal people are using 3 core cable

Mr DIY, I'm trying to add a 2 way switch but it's not working. Can I send you 2 photos of my work please and get your advice
Excellent videos by the way

It would have been nice if u explained via maybe a switch diagram how the current flows through the switches and is subsequent turned on or off by each switch it would give people a better grasp of what exactly is happening in two way switching that said it was still a great tutorial

Thankyou, very informative.

Great video, thanks

Hi i am trying to wire lights in my shed. I have been watching loads of your videos and they seem really helpful. For starters i dont know if i have bought the right kit. I have a consumer unit in the shed and run some sockets from it, and run another wire from the 6amp RCB (I think its called) to a switch with two switches on it. I wanted to put one light outside the shed and a strip light on the inside. I was wondering if you could help witha quick demo on how to do it and i can follow alnong like I have been doing previously. By the way I havnt connceted it to the house yet LOL really nervous for doing that until im sure i have done what I can to get it all wired up completely. Again many thanks for your tutorials they are a great help.

Great video, really helpful and well explained. Thank you!

Thank you so much. Gave me the confidence to remove all wires and start again as I'd previously mixed the and couldn't get it going properly. Old house with a mix of colors for wires! Figured it a out do VERY much appreciated

My 2 light switch gang shows common, but the lower ones are '1way' and '2 way'. Does that correspond to your L1 and L2, respectively?

As an electrical engineer of 40 years experience, I am impressed with the way and the terminology used to explain how the 2 way lighting system works. Only one criticism, is that you forgot to mention the “ strappers form the switching link between the 2 switches . But apart from that 👏👏👏WELL DONE