Hello,
We moved into a new property 5 months ago and there is an extractor fan in the bathroom that has never worked. This weekend I decided to have a crack at fixing or replacing it. I'm new to DIY so bear with me here!
Firstly, there is no isolator switch for this fan as far as I can tell. I've looked everywhere including climbing up into the loft.
I took apart the new fan and there was a blue wire, and brown wire and then a wire that had been stripped coming out of the wall. I know that blue is neutral and brown is live and from my limited reading I THINK the stripped wire is the 'switched live' wire which has something to do with the timer? The neutral and live wires were connected to the fan itself but the stripped wire was not.
There was no earth wire - should there be?
Anyway, I wired in the new fan, linked the three available wires as follows:
Blue wire: N
Brown: L
Stripped: SL
Turned the light on and nothing happened. Is it possible these wires have been completely disconnected from the mains or have I made a rookie error somewhere?
We moved into a new property 5 months ago and there is an extractor fan in the bathroom that has never worked. This weekend I decided to have a crack at fixing or replacing it. I'm new to DIY so bear with me here!
Firstly, there is no isolator switch for this fan as far as I can tell. I've looked everywhere including climbing up into the loft.
I took apart the new fan and there was a blue wire, and brown wire and then a wire that had been stripped coming out of the wall. I know that blue is neutral and brown is live and from my limited reading I THINK the stripped wire is the 'switched live' wire which has something to do with the timer? The neutral and live wires were connected to the fan itself but the stripped wire was not.
There was no earth wire - should there be?
Anyway, I wired in the new fan, linked the three available wires as follows:
Blue wire: N
Brown: L
Stripped: SL
Turned the light on and nothing happened. Is it possible these wires have been completely disconnected from the mains or have I made a rookie error somewhere?