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Any electrician will warn you to first locate and flip the houseβs CAUSALITY circuit breaker before touching the CIRCUIT BREAKERS one.
In my house I have bathroom one, bathroom two, fan, kitchen, outlets, living room, L outlets, stove, kitchen outlets two, hall, upstairs, bedroom 1, bedroom two 2, bedroom one outlets, bedroom 2 outlets, outside.
I only have one bathroom, and I donβt have a fan in any room so God knows what that controls.
I also have some wiring in the attic space with a big sign on the power box that says βWARNING wiring uses incorrect coloursβ and theyβre all brown.
Iβm betting your house used to have a 2nd bath or was going to get one but was abandoned. The fan was likely the bathroom 2 or possibly a range hood.
All brown wires is definitely whatβs incorrect. Hot, neutral and ground should be easily identified at a glance (black or red for hot, white for neutral, green or bare copper for ground where I am). Iβve only ever seen brown sheathing on older fabric or paper insulated wiring.
I am not an electrician and this isnβt advice.
Where I am brown is live. So theyβre all live wires apparently.
The house was built in the early 1920s so Iβm not surprised that itβs weird. It was built before homes really had electricity or indoor plumbing so the wiring and bathroom were added after the fact. Combined with the fact that the previous owner did a lot of DIY and werenβt very good at it.