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Many, many thanks to everyone who offered their advice and shared their knowledge. Special thanks to Sunray, I followed your diagram today and it worked! I'm thrilled that we now have light again. You are all an amazing bunch! :-)

Thank you so much to you all for your time, patience and help. I've taken more photos to show the wires better. I removed the labelling from all the wires yesterday once I'd changed them over but I've relabelled them exactly as before. The way I wired the new dimmer was to copy across how the...

Sorry, meant to say thank you so much for your time!

Oh, that's confusing. The other switch must have been removed and plastered over - there is swirly artex on the walls:-\ So does that mean I can't put a double dimmer switch there instead? Sorry to ask so many questions. I will have a go at putting the old switch back on tomorrow as you suggest...

Thanks for responding so quickly John. I hope your reply will help me fix things tomorrow. When I said they were one way I just meant that there aren't any other switches controlling the lights, just this double switch. The left for the kitchen light and the right for the dining area light...

Hi, I'm trying to replace a double switch with a double dimmer. They are both one way so should be simple but when I opened the old switch the wiring doesn't look like anything I've seen or can find on Google. Three red wires wired in to the top L1, L2 and com and three black wires wired into...