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Yes, reducing the wattage of the bulbs would certainly help, I would aim for half the wattage, 20watt bulbs or 35watt at least, according to what you said your transformers are rated at this so it should be ok. Then we can deal with the subject of dimmers.

Despite the silly amount of lighting, shurely you don't need a dimmer in a Kitchen? Well I suppose you will with that much lighting. Seriously though, the only solution is to get a normal switch to replace the dimmers, I don't think that much dimming is wise, or possible too, the dimmers are...

May I suggest galvanized steel conduit, or failing that, PVC conduit. When done well if can look beautifully neat, I have black PVC conduit in my house in places due to old brick walls that don't like chasing and even unpainted it looks good. The main problem is designing the runs to be the...

Nope, don't you realise that our great leader, Gordon Brown, said it was un-british and cancelled it? Anyone who is caught april-fooling will be given an ASBO! See...

This should go well with the new imperial cable sizes and lengths! Who needs a simple understandable system like SI?!

Hello God! Whilst you are re-wiring the solar system, could I have some more money? Please?

I should say that phase(live) should go to 2 and neutral to 5. I'm 95% sure about this, so please double check. I believe that your hob is capable of being run off 3-phase supplies as are more common in a domestic environment in continental europe, here we have single phase and all the...

With all due disrespect I have quite a large four-story house, which is very well lit, generally, sometimes almost over-lit. And it has 1kW of lighting, wait for it, for the WHOLE house! Now, where there are some rooms that need lots of lighting, kitchen and bathroom to be precise, most...

Exactly right, Tamlight with Sylvania 840 tubes from CEF. Can I just point out that in my opinion T5 is superior to T8 due to all fittings being high frequency, triphosphor, 20,000h lamp life and unbeatable efficiency. But a good quality HF T8 fitting will do the job almost as well and are...

Just to add something to the pot, we have a galley shaped kitchen about 2 by 3 meters. Just fitted four 21watt T5 strips, cool white I think. Fantastic light, bulbs rated at 20,000 hours and no shadows at all. They were not cheap though, certainly worth it though, if a little on the bright side.

Ahh, brilliant, the mist is starting to clear. On the subject I found some disconnected lead sheathed cable, on stripping back it looked in perfect condition, shiny conductors, rubber soft and the cotton in great condition. I almost felt like re-using it.

Maybe some kind person can tell me why we did use tinned copper cables for domestic final circuits and no longer do so? I'm afraid my trawling of the internet has not come up with an answer so far.

Re-wire, or Class 2 fittings. I'm afraid it really is that harsh, anyway I re-wire is probably overdue by now.

Yep, Megaman are certainly the way to go. And they do nice dimmerable and dimmable versions too now.

I wouldn't take an earth from the central heating pipes either, you don't want to end up with radiators that are more painful to touch than normal, do you?

G4 fittings are normally surface mounted, I think that these photographs are going to help, after all we do like photographs!

Opps, I meant to say almost every kind, I'm sitting under two warm Megaman 9watts at the moment.

I think the problem is that down-lighters of every kind get very hot, that is your heat source. I don't think it is a very good idea to have down lighters anywhere, let alone under a cupboard. How about replacing them with some lovely T4 fluorescent lamps, cheaper to run, last longer and...