So I have an extractor fan in the bathroom of our flat. There’s an isolation switch above the door outside the bathroom. This is the only on/off switch for the fan. The Mrs doesn’t use it as she can’t reach it.
https://goo.gl/photos/9yQbjTASjvj3d1Gn8
Inside, I appear to have L1 (Red – Live), L2 (Yellow -Switch Live?) and Neutral (blue) (from the mains to the off side of the switch and again from the On side to the extractor). It seems the mains feed is connected to the same 6amp MCB on the consumer box that feeds the lights as the extractor doesn’t work if this is off.
https://goo.gl/photos/FTwvyqpXRN9k7TGc7
On the other side of the doorway is the bathroom light switch and so I was hoping I’d be able to poke the wire through and run 2 foot of cable along the door frame to the light switch as it’d still look quite neat.
https://goo.gl/photos/NvKvtSGfLumuNjDq7
However, from memory the switch only has 2 red wires and an earth (presumably live to switch and then live to light rose)
All the wiring diagrams I have seen, seem to indicate the fan should be wired to the light lamp, not the light switch. Which obviously isn’t very easy to achieve.
http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/diy/electrics/extractor_fan/shower_fan_wiring-HARMONISED.jpg
Is there a way to wire this into the light switch itself?
The bottom two diagrams of this page, seems to indicate that it is possible:
http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:fan
Looks like I might be able to change the Fan Isolator above the door for a fused switch and the pull cord switch for a DP version?
Can’t even think of an easy way just to change the isolator switch to a pull cord or other switch type which she’d be able to reach.
Any thoughts?