What does your electrical tester tell you?
In old houses, wire color does not help you trouble shoot--just a tester will.
In old houses, wire color does not help you trouble shoot--just a tester will.
Even with the breaker on I get no response from the tester when I touch the loose wire nor do I get any response from the other wires. All the wires don't seem to have any power.What does your electrical tester tell you?
In old houses, wire color does not help you trouble shoot--just a tester will.
It looks like it is.is the black wire broke off?
From your post, sounds like a broken black wire like you mentioned. Again pics could be deceiving.After killing the power and pulling the switch from the box I noticed there is a disconnected black wire just hanging around and I have no idea where it goes.
No, the black wire attached to the switch is wire coming from the wall and through the box.Looks like a broken piece of black wire caped off with the neutrals. Again pics could be deceiving.
Is the black wire coming off the switch just dangling there?
Agree with yodaman, turn off power and investigate further.
Could be. Makes sense. May have broken off under the wire nut. Turn off power, pull out red wire, uncap it and find out.No, the black wire attached to the switch is wire coming from the wall and through the box.
I was thinking the loose wire was capped with the red capped wire.
Thanks guys
Well, I checked again and the loose black wire is live. Apparently I was only touching the black casing and not the actual wire.Is the red wire with the wire nut attached to anything? If not that SHOULD BE where it goes. Check the black wire that's broken against the ground wire then check the other black wire against ground wire you should see around 120v on one of those two you won't see anything measuring against other wires. Also you really need to clean up your wires to your receptacle, should be no tails sticking out which is a safety issue and the wires should be fully seated under the screws. I don't want to come off sounding like a prick but I also don't want to hear about a fire or anything else that could go wrong.
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Ok thanks. Will do once I get home.I'm not telling you what to do however if it was me I would switch power off to the outlet and connect the broken black wire to the red with the wire nut make sure the switch is off and flip the breaker seeing if the switch works.
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There aren't any GFCI's installed. They will be installed once the bathroom is remodeled.That red wire should be wrapped around the screw the other way, CW not CCW.
Have you checked for a tripped GFCI ? A tripped GFCI upstream of the switch/light would kill the power to them, even with the breaker on.
Ok I cleaned up the mess in the box first of all.I'm not telling you what to do however if it was me I would switch power off to the outlet and connect the broken black wire to the red with the wire nut make sure the switch is off and flip the breaker seeing if the switch works.
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Nope, just the one switch.OK so then the broken black wire then gets connected to the black wire on the switch. If u can't shut it off u just bypassed the switch. Unless it was a 3 way switch. Is there another switch that controlled the light too?
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