Light Switch to replace 3 Gang-Dimmer - Recommendations?

[Ferdinand]

I am replacing a 3 gang 15cm x 8cm dimmer switch in my kitchen with normal switches. Something has gone pop on one of my lighting circuits, and since I have non-dimming LEDs installed since 2013 this is one suggestion after a few years.

 

I seem to have found a hole in the market with noting between cheap & perhaps nasty (<£15) and stupidly expensive (£75-100 + likely to have click switches like my primary school in 197x).

 

I'm looking at approximately Schneider / MK level with a brushed metallic finish or brushed metal front plate roughly to match the rest of the room.

 

Can anyone recommend - an hour looking has found nothing suitable?

 

Plan B will be a 4 gang with one left unconnected.

 

Chees

 

Ferdinand

 

[ProDave]

4 gang grid switch is your only answer with one fitted with a blank.  I have never seen a 3 gang switch in a 2G wide front plate.

 

Or if going for new dimmers, just buy any make of new dimmer and swap the modules over onto your old front plate.

[Gone West]

6 hours ago, Ferdinand said:

I'm looking at approximately Schneider / MK level with a brushed metallic finish or brushed metal front plate roughly to match the rest of the room.

 

Can anyone recommend - an hour looking has found nothing suitable?

 

Is this any good?

 

https://www.rselectricalsupplies.co.uk/products/schneider-ultimate-flat-plate-stainless-steel-3g-2w-light-switch-gu12322wss

 

 

[ProDave]

24 minutes ago, Gone West said:

Is this any good?

 

https://www.rselectricalsupplies.co.uk/products/schneider-ultimate-flat-plate-stainless-steel-3g-2w-light-switch-gu12322wss

 

 

Good find, but THE PRICE !!!!

[Ferdinand]

4 hours ago, ProDave said:

4 gang grid switch is your only answer with one fitted with a blank.  I have never seen a 3 gang switch in a 2G wide front plate.

 

Or if going for new dimmers, just buy any make of new dimmer and swap the modules over onto your old front plate.

 

Here's an example of a retro flick switch in that format from SF in about 10 finishes. Lots around afaics, but seem mainly for Felicity to install in her antique house in West Hampstead:

 

https://www.screwfix.com/search?search=3+gang+lghtswitch&numberofgangs=3_gang&switchoperation=toggle&switchproducttype=light

 

And here's the only rocker on I can find, which looks cheap:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Varilight-3-Gang-Rocker-Switch-Rockers/dp/B01DM43X4K/

 

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[Ferdinand]

37 minutes ago, Gone West said:

Is this any good?

 

https://www.rselectricalsupplies.co.uk/products/schneider-ultimate-flat-plate-stainless-steel-3g-2w-light-switch-gu12322wss

 

 

 

Thanks.

 

£36.00 hmmm. But I did say Schneider.

 

Need to reflect on this and grid switches for a day.

 

Cheers

[ProDave]

The varilight one is something altogether different.

[Ferdinand]

28 minutes ago, ProDave said:

The varilight one is something altogether different.

 

Hmmm. So what is it?

 

There's one at TLC, which says 250V and says Light Switch.

 

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/VLXDR93S.html

 

 

Am I about to be educated?

[Ferdinand]

I'm going 4 gang on this.

[Ferdinand]

Final question for @ProDave.

 

If I go with a screw-less faceplate, which most of them seem to be, will this cause problems mating to a standard recessed back-box which has the fittings for a screwed faceplate?

 

Cheers

 

[ProDave]

A screwless faceplate still fixes to the back box with standard screws, and then a decorative cover clips on to cover the lot hiding the screws.

 

Some of the Varilight stuff is a king of low voltage master / slave unit.

[Ferdinand]

Install now done.

Used a LAP 4-Gang which was in stock, and it now works fine.

 

It was indeed a dead dimmer unit for that circuit.

 

Thanks for the repies.

Ferdinand