Electrician help

[burning blue soul]

Your chimney breast is on a gypsum wall?

 

[lawton mellor]

Have the lead flashing and pointing on the chimney stack looked at

 

[gaz76]

Has anyone heard back from @jrb since he decided to be a spark? I do hope he remembered to perform a safe isolation

 

[york away to this!]

Assume some with more sector knowledge than I will already have recommended burning your house down, then building new using a decent electrician on board with the insurance money?

 

[KS55]

New problem.
The spring in a dimmer switch has died. Light is stuck on. Any suggestions short of fitting a new switch?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

New problem.
The spring in a dimmer switch has died. Light is stuck on. Any suggestions short of fitting a new switch?

You could take the bulb out when you don’t want the light on and put it in when you do, creating a switch further round the circuit.

 

[KS55]

You could take the bulb out when you don’t want the light on and put it in when you do, creating a switch further round the circuit.

I could also shoot it with an air rifle. Deffo not climbing up and down!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

New problem.
The spring in a dimmer switch has died. Light is stuck on. Any suggestions short of fitting a new switch?

It's usually the plastic mechanism behind the spring that breaks rather than the spring itself. It could be repairable, but you're better off just replacing the switch.

 

[gaz76]

New problem.
The spring in a dimmer switch has died. Light is stuck on. Any suggestions short of fitting a new switch?

If you really don't want to fit a new switch, use the mcb supplying the lighting circuit as a switch, it will probably turn off more than just the one light, saving you on all the other switches.
Either that or torch the gaff claim on the insurance and use the money to buy a new switch as others have suggested

 

[KS55]

If you really don't want to fit a new switch, use the mcb supplying the lighting circuit as a switch, it will probably turn off more than just the one light, saving you on all the other switches.
Either that or torch the gaff claim on the insurance and use the money to buy a new switch as others have suggested

I was just looking for a temporary solution until a new switch was installed. I’ll try switching off the circuit but that will probably leave the kitchen in darkness by controlling the other lights.
Torching appears to be the only sensible solution.