Help please for my bathroom light switch

[Ben Webster]

My bathroom light switch has broken. It has two brown and two blue wires and an earth wire. I think it also operates the fan. I have found the brand switch online but not sure if this is correct one to buy? The current light switch is an intermediate switch.

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[westward10]

Can you show your old switch along with the associated wiring.

 

[buzzlightyear]

It would be better to get a spark in to sort it out for you .

 

[Ben Webster]

 

[buzzlightyear]

that a double pole switch the one you are getting is correct.

 

[Ben Webster]

Thank you so much

 

[Midwest]

Is that how it was connected previously?

 

[telectrix]

looks like the blues are sleeved brown. if so, i'd hazard a guess that 1 pole switches the light and the other ploe switches the fan.

 

[Ben Webster]

Is that how it was connected previously?

Yes that’s right

 

[Ben Webster]

looks like the blues are sleeved brown. if so, i'd hazard a guess that 1 pole switches the light and the other ploe switches the fan.

So the fan comes on when I turn the light off? Then turns off on a timer?

 

[Midwest]

Yes that’s right

Well its not gone bang before, so it must be ok. Difficult to say how its wired from your pic.

 

[Spoon]

So the fan comes on when I turn the light off? Then turns off on a timer?

What @telectrix was saying that your switch has two contacts (switches) inside it. When you switch on the light switch one contact will operate the light and the other will operate the fan.

If your fan has a timer then the fan usually operates when the light is switched on then run for the set time after the light is switched off.

 

[Midwest]

Arrh re-read the op. Thought it said operated fan (only). My bad.