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Yeah think you're right - thanks for all the info everyone who commented

Its a switched live...

Ok there is a ceiling rose in the attic (operates the attic light) that I plan to get the live neutral and earth from. Would it be a case of running a 2 core and earth from the ceiling rose to the switch and a 3 core and earth from the rose to the fan?

Yes I thought this, it must be the switched live but it is the blue cable, brown is going to l1

Hello Thanks for the replies. The circuit has an RCD at the fuse board. There is currently a neutral and a live and earth in the switch. Neutral going to COM and the live to L1 earth just going to a piece of connector block. Would I use a 3 core and earth to wire the fan to the second switch...

Hello folks I posted a while ago about putting a bathroom extractor fan into the attic. I have since managed to run a cable from the existing single way bathroom switch up into the attic (I didn't think I was going to be able to do this last time I posted). Ideally, I want to run the fan on a...

sure am in East Lothian here, let me know if anyone is in the area

ah ok, sounds like this job is maybe a bit beyond me then. Thanks for the info

Hello, no was hoping this was a diy job to be honest, would you recommend getting someone in?

they are 230v GU10's. What would I use the 3rd core for? There doesn't seem to be any earth for the fan and on the downlights the earth is just folded back..

OK so on further inspection getting a cable up through the wall is not that easy. As an alternative can I just power the fan from one of the existing 50w downlights? i.e. run a two core cable from the live and neutral of the downlight to the live and neutral of the fan?

should be easy enough to get the cable from the switch to the fan as have plasterboard walls

Hello Wondering if someone can give me some advice. I have an s&p td silent fan that I want to use as a bathroom extractor fan. I'm looking to run the fan (no timer or humidistat) from a switch outside the bathroom by turning the existing 1 gang light switch to a two gang. Is this possible...

Ive got this working now which is great. Thanks for the help. One other question though, I now have 4 earth cables in this switch box, could I terminate them all in a wago, it's a bit of a fiddle to get all 4 in the earth block!

OK that's all great information - thanks everyone. I definitely have a solution now that even I'll be able to do! 😊