Recent content by mistymoo

Thanks. I might buy her a plug in RCD to run her fairy lights through. I'm not wiring the new stuff into the CU yet so I'm going to join the new ring/radial onto the old cable for now. The whole house is a nightmare, it seems like people have been DIY adding bits since the invention of...

It doesn't. I know that. I know radials are perfectly acceptable but as the customer (who also happens to be my MOTHER) requested a ring then I am putting them on a ring. :) So you think joining one end of the ring to the cable coming from the DB and putting the other end of the ring in a...

:^O Yes!

Sadly there are no MCB's on the DB, just those nice rewireable fuses. So you reckon making it into a ring would be the best bet?

Wish I'd read this last week... I need a new immersion element in my cylinder and thought I would have a crack at it myself not realising I needed to drain the cylinder first..... To cut a long story short my cylinder is now leaking into one of pampas finest and the plumber is coming next week...

Hello! I'm in the process of re-wiring my mother's house (it's going to take ages), I've just finished the sitting room, put in lights and sockets on a ring main (before the house had no ring main, just masses of radials on radials? Some of it was aluminium too...) but christmas is upon us and...

Hi, I've been asked to fit a replacement oven with separate hob. The old oven and hob are electrically attached to each other and then wired in to the cable that comes out of the cooker switch on the tiles above the work top (no cooker point behind oven). The CU is an old one and there are no...

I did it. Not done second fix yet so not sure if it works! Thanks for your pictures. I have a lot of theory in my head but not a lot of practice and NO ONE will take me on to work with them EVEN FOR FREE so I am a bit stuck. I'm doing work mainly for friends and family at the moment until I...

Technically I am a Qualified Electrician. I have both my part P and 17th ed but lack practical experience. I am contacting other Qualified Electricians here. Usually you lot are quite helpful but I find your tone a little Unhelpful this evening.

Hrrrm. I think I know what you mean. Can I not just put a junction box in the feed and split it 3 ways to begin with?

Hello, The owners of the kitchen I am wiring would like 3 different "sets" of lights in it. 1 set of spots shining on their stove, sink and dresser, 1 "normal" set of 3 pendant lights and one set outside to light up their path. I have one incoming 1.5 mm t&e from the consumer unit that...

Superb. Now I just need them to make their minds up about where they actually want it (other than in the kitchen that is...) ! Thanks. M

Hello happy people. I have another question for you. Gas hobs- (not with an oven attached, just a hob that fits into a work top) will it need a designated circuit? I can only find stuff about "cookers" and "ovens" but nothing about stand alone hobs. I'm presuming it will need some kind of...

Thank you. That would be nice.

Ditto. I was keen to find out what happened to the mystery of the bath.