Switch Under Consumer Unit

[Jaywn]

Hi all I'm quite new here and have just passed my level 3. It might be a silly question but I have found a light switch directly under the consumer unit and I was wonder why it is there ( it doesn't control any lights)

Thanks.

 

[ProDave]

Open it up and have a look. Is it still connected?

Are you sure it's a "light switch" not a higher rating.

 

[Andy™]

erm.. why dont you try taking it apart and looking at it?

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

isolator for Door bell transformer   ?

 

[OnOff]

Is the cu under the stairs and there's a batten holder missing a lamp?  :lol:

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Hi all I'm quite new here and have just passed my level 3. It might be a silly question but I have found a light switch directly under the consumer unit and I was wonder why it is there ( it doesn't control any lights)

Thanks.

Yes its possibly the silliest question this year (r.b. may be ahead of you by a wiska)  How would anyone know for definite from the details you have given ?

 

[OnOff]

Found a guide for this exact problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSQTgGUF2Z4

The OP DIDN'T say Level 3 in what tbh....................I'd suggest banging large holes thru the walls at random to help trace the wires and covering the resultant damage with strategically placed paintings etc

 

[Barx]

The OP DIDN'T say Level 3 in what tbh....................I'd suggest banging large holes thru the walls at random to help trace the wires and covering the resultant damage with strategically placed paintings etc

But be sure to do that first. Before taking the cover off.

 

[Evans Electric]

As the Slippery one said , highly likely to be doorbell isolator.

 

[kerching]

Supply to next doors electric chair?

Just saying......

The smart money is on it being an isolator for the door bell transformer....so that when it rains and the bell push fills with water granny can go and flick the switch and stop the bells from ringing

 

[Elmer BeFuddled]

Terry Jones Pythonesque type voice "Bells, bells, bells. That's all that Quasimodo does all day!!"

 

[Adrian]

and yet another new member made to feel welcome you lot really piss me off sometimes 

as some have already said most probably the door bell isolator

 

[Apache]

 

[Badger]

id say it could be the understairs cupboard light or might also be an outside light say on the back side of the consumer unit itself, as in the past ive put a light switch under a cu to make an install of an outdoor light neat without trunking s an outside light is a large psosibility. by the way welcome. :Salute

 

[Sharpend]

I would hope that it is for a light or bell transformer as suggested, but with modern sparks it could be to isolate the board for all I know without having the pleasure to see it??

 

[mikep]

Obviously it controls the light at the end of the tunnel !!!!!!!

Turn it on so we can get out of this mess !!!

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Will we ever find out,   or are we   eadHorse:    

 

[kme]

Slips...................Is that a horse you`re dissecting, by any chance?

Only asking `cos a friend in Tesco needs some bits :slap

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Not sure, been drinking this tonight   

 

[Gravesee]

I would say it is most likely a switch for outside lighting. Good luck