Still have workers in my home doing updates.
One guy changed out a switch in my dinning room. On the other side of the wall is a (think its called a gang switch) in my kitchen. I have two switches in my kitchen one as I enter from my laundry room the other as I enter from the dinning room. Either will turn on and off the kitchen lights. Anyway after he changed the switch in the dinning room that switch has to be on to have my lights on in the kitchen. It was never like this before. I could always turn on the kitchen lights independent from the dinning room. There are three wires going the dinning room switch. One is positive; I dont think that one of the others is a ground as the house has the original wiring from the early 1950s. I tried connecting the positive and each of the 2 other wires and didn't fix the problem. I also put the old switch back in and still have the same problem. What did he do? They want to go into a junction box in the attic.
Blair
One guy changed out a switch in my dinning room. On the other side of the wall is a (think its called a gang switch) in my kitchen. I have two switches in my kitchen one as I enter from my laundry room the other as I enter from the dinning room. Either will turn on and off the kitchen lights. Anyway after he changed the switch in the dinning room that switch has to be on to have my lights on in the kitchen. It was never like this before. I could always turn on the kitchen lights independent from the dinning room. There are three wires going the dinning room switch. One is positive; I dont think that one of the others is a ground as the house has the original wiring from the early 1950s. I tried connecting the positive and each of the 2 other wires and didn't fix the problem. I also put the old switch back in and still have the same problem. What did he do? They want to go into a junction box in the attic.
Blair