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Not sure about pic 1, but the crossed over red and black in pic 2 might give one pause .... pj

If the switched live return to he lamp is not live, pound to a penny your simmer switch is the dead part of the equation. try an ordinary switch in its place to test the hypothesis (power off during the changeover of course) pj

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Timers_Index/Immersion_Heater_Timers_1/index.html You mean this sort of thing? pj

Try another new socket - it's not unknown for sockets to be faulty. pj

I appreciate that the end result helped justify your pseudonym BAS, but how can someone with a name like yours even go into one ... ? pj

1 - yes 2 - yes 3 - yes 4 - bayonet It's a hallway, you just need to see your way along it, no need for fancy lighting. Simple pendant fittings, bayonet lamp connection, LED lamp, ordinary on-off switches, sorted. The only reason you might want dimmers is if you leave the lights on...

My pet hate with light fittings - they provide screws to screw them to the ceiling which are worse than useless, and anyway everyone has decent screws in their toolbox, but they never provide extras of the pathetic little grub screws that hold the fitting to its base, so when you drop them on...

My secret desire is to meet a light designer in a dark alley and beat him senseless with a wet fish - don't these people ever try installing their creations? pj

Upgrade from your cheap panel heaters to (onlyslightly) more expensive ones with built-in thermostats and timers. pj

Not quite true that they don't wear out (though it takes a lot of time and use). They're made of glass fibre and after enough bending, shoving, pulling and scraping this starts to splinter. I've been scratched by a few glass fibres recently where they're starting to fracture. Still wouldn't be...

There isn't (usually) a fuse in a double socket, but there should be one in the plug attached to the toaster - have you checked that one? IS it both sides of the double socket don't work or just one? You say the fuse box "looks" OK - are they fuses or switches? If switches they're all presumably...

National GRID. Lighting up. Grid lighting. Doh!!

First place to look is in the eiling roses for the light fittings. When the terminal screws are tightened down on the copper wires, they cut into the copper and create a thinner, weak point. This is the equivalent of a fuse wire in the circuit, and under the added electrical strain of a lamp...

Theoretically yes you could. In the future the light fittings might be changed to one that needs the CPC, then you'd have to recable, so leave the CPC in place for future-proofing. PJ

Message to OP - as you've probably gathered your "someone" who came to help has shafted you with his ignorance. You'll get away with an immersion heater through a 13A plug, at least in the short term, if there's only ONE wired in. Also, in a two-heater immersion tank that's giving you problems...

Heating mats are constructed on the basis that the heat they deliver is commensurate with the length of wire involved (the heat coming from the resistance). So if you extend the mat in any way, even if it's the cold tails, you'll alter the performance in some way. Best put to the manufacturer's...

Don't want to add to your woes, but the tilt downlights usually require a bigger cutout than fixed downlights, so replacing them might prove problematic. pj

Does it have to be this particular light fitting? Sounds like an off-the-shelf emergency light is already tailor-made for the job. pj

If I read your post correctly you don't actually disconnect any of the wires, just move the fittings away from the paintwork. If this is the case then it's unlikely there is a direct link between your decorating and the electrical failure. It sounds as though you're losing all power (lights...

The "burning on the neutral" is where the wire has previously been loose in the terminal, leading to arcing which, over time, has degraded the copper and brass and caused your problem. The wiring needs to be cut back to a point where it is undamaged (you can tell when you reach this point as the...