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Hello Thank you all for your support and advice. Sorry for the delay in posting an update. I have learnt that electricians don't like...

Time for a rewire and install some proper fixed heating. Why can you not get gas for the portable heater? Not that they are good...

Your flat seriously needs some upgrades if it really only has two single 13A sockets, and not heating. If you have to use a plug in...

All the alterations you should need to make are in the loft, no need for chasing new cables into walls.

You really need to get an electrician in. He has the knowledge and test equipment to quickly work out what is wrong and trace and find...

Too many variables to make much sense of it, but start WITH THE POWER TURNED OFF opening each light switch in turn and looking for wires...

So at the isolator, only ONE, the black actually passes through one pole of the switch (it is a 3 pole switch) Assuming the convention...

No 1, whoever "wired it up recently" get them back, they have wired it wrong. Otherwise post pictures of the wiring inside the light...

Stupid question time, but are you SURE it is a gas boiler not electric? Replacing a gas boiler with an electric one would easily...

So how is the house heated? And how many kWh are you using per day?

In the "old days" the supplier controlled the switching of storage heaters, originally with a time clock separate to the dual rate...

Print a copy of the dual outlet cooker connection plate shown earlier to "educate" the electricians that come to fix it.

The fan instructions won't tell you what colour, just neutral, live and switched live. There is no defined colour code for this as all...

Most likely the grey is neutral and the black is switched live. So swap them over and find out if you have damaged anything in the fan...

That wants replacing with a double outlet cooker connection plate.