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    Pop!

    You were right! I bought a new dimmer and replaced it for the old one - presto, problem solved. One bulb remained dead, which must have been the culprit. Thanks!
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    Pop!

    That can happen? A bulb can go and nuke the dimmer along with it?
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    Pop!

    Ok, I'll get a switch and test it. I'm curious as to why though? It's been a dimmer since we moved in in 2013 and there's never been an issue like this before. I can't remember the last time I had to change the lights, they're long lasting and designed to be dimmed. I dim them all the time.
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    Pop!

    The lights are four separate spot lights in the ceiling, like the four spots on the 4 of a six sided dice. They're all separate, but they are controlled by just the one switch. I took them out one at a time, testing the light switch, then replacing the light and moving on to the next one. I saw...
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    Pop!

    What do you mean you bet it wasn't an RCD? Whatever you call it, the box with the row of fuses - the one operating the 1st floor lighting had tripped into the off position and flicking it back to on restored power to the 1st floor lighting, except the study. The light switch is a dimmer. Press...
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    Pop!

    I have LED downlights all round the house. I just turned on my study lights, and pop! There was a brief flash, which to my mind looked like it was localised to one of the four spotlights in the study, and the lights on the whole floor went out. The RCD for the whole floor had tripped. I put it...
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    Dimmer switch shenanigans

    Hi, My two gang (is that right?) dimmer switch broke, so I have attempted to replace it. The left dimmer controls the bathroom light and the right dimmer controls a stairwell light. There is also another plain, non-dimmer switch at the top of the stairs which also controls the stairwell light...
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    Socket failure??

    Hi, One of our power sockets seems to have spontaneously stopped working. Our tumble dryer was old and already had a fault. We already believed it was on its way out, when we lost power throughout the house during a drying cycle. Sure enough, the switch that tripped on the RCD was the one that...
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    Cold weather and electrics...

    I just checked (it’s dark now) and the new lights are working, so a different circuit.
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    Cold weather and electrics...

    Yes, two and actually one of them is brand new. I don't know if they are on the relevant circuit though, they don't activate until it's dark.
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    Cold weather and electrics...

    That's right, it does. In the past one of the ceiling lights dripped water and that was the issue I mentioned from two years ago in the opening post. But today I see no issues.
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    Cold weather and electrics...

    We have a loft extension, so yes, we sleep in there! But no, I can't see any visible water dripping or damp etc.
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    Cold weather and electrics...

    Yes, it was on the RCD. I have edited the post to reflect that.
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    Cold weather and electrics...

    Hi, We just had what we thought was a power cut. All the electrics cut out, until we realised it was the main circuit breaker on the RCD which had tripped. None of the individual circuit breakers had tripped, just the main. I turned them all off again, flipped the main breaker on, and then one...
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    Footprint in screed

    I used a piece of wood and ran it over the depression and am reasonably convinced that there is only a depression and not any surrounding raised levels. Would the SLC be applied only to the affected area and then smoothed out like plaster for example?
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