Your statement is a bit off the wall
Do you have two single pole switches or two double pole switches
You would normally provide a Live, Neutral and Earth to each fan via a switched , double pole, fused spur box .(You run a cable from the spur to a junction box) , you then run a LNE to each of the fans (using plastic trunking or conduit if the cables cannot be sunk into a wall).
Inside the junction box you remove the Live supply cable from the connector which should now be carrying three cables leaving the two cables running to the fans.
Put the Live wire into the spare connector inside the junction box
Get a twin and earth cable with the two wires marked up as Lives (Brown or Red in the UK, or whatever your wiring colour code dictates in your country) take those to a single pole switch which is convenient to you and wire them in
Back at the junction box put one of those wire into the connector where the two Supply wires for the fans are and tighten them up
Put the second wire from the On/Off switch to the Spare connector in the junction box which is holding the Live Supply
You then have a fused supply with a switch to break the circuit
If you do not need a switch then ignore the second part and just rely on using the switched fused spur to control them.
You can use a single pole switch but it is safer to stick with the double pole version
The breaker will be out of the loop as that will provide the power and you should not be fitting wires to it
A double pole switch is used to break both live and neutral so that even an idiot cannot electrocute themselves if they wire the supplies in wrong in the first place (ie cross the live and the neutral before they get to the spur box
Normal fans will run on 1.5 mm twin and earth, if they are long runs you can go to 2.5mm.
Clarify what you call a duplex switch.
Anyone following the correct wiring regulations will use a double pole isolator
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Do you have two single pole switches or two double pole switches
It'a duplex sing pole switch:one switch on top of each other.
Isn't a double pole switch used for 220?
How do you wire a single pole duplex switch to two exhaust fans? What size wire do you use ?
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