I am in the process of installing track lighting in my living room. There was an outlet on the wall right next to a switch which controls another light for the other side of the room. I decided that I was gonig to remove the outlet, install a switch run the wire through the walls and up to the track lighting.here is the problem. for the new switch i have two sets of wires. 1) one black,white and green comes from the track lighting. 2) the second set of wires to be conencted to the switch are from the outlet that was there,from the panel( i guess) the power source. the black wire was fine and I conencted that. The wite wire was extremelly short. At this point i decided to cut some extra white wire and simply run it fromt eh switch to the white shorted wire in the wall, whichw as abotu athree inches. Since the junction box was cramped with the wires and connectors i was not able to fully conect this three inche of white wire to the existing white wire in the wall. What I did and obviously it didnt work was simply loop the new wire around the old wire, no wire nuts,no tape... i turned on the power and the light worked, I turned off the newly installed switched and the elctrcity went out....... any suggestions.? P.S. i turned back on the power to the house and turned off that breaker.

Can the following be done I have a light switch at the top of my stairs 14/2 it controls a light at the bottom of my stairs. I want to install a second switch at the bottom of the stairs to also control that light (either before or after the light). At this point it is all two wire. i know if i could run 3 wire from the switch to the light, or to the second switch, life would be grand but that would mean tearing up drywall that i do not want to do. Can it be done with 2 wire or am i doomed to a life of running up and down the stairs. I ask this because the house is all two wire, up on the second floor there is a switch that controls a light on the first floor as well as a switch on the first floor that controls that same light. There must be a way to do this with two wire?