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working doesn't mean safe. but hey, as long as its not you that's get injured / killed by them who cares

changing MCB' to higher rating for the guests whilst you're not around? guessing its the inlaws you're trying to kill & a nice insurance claim when the house burns down due to overloaded cables?

ground loop forget about it. can't detect people only vehicles. photocell on its own is non compliant. it needssafety edges. and i would also take a guess that the hinges are offset and the gap will get smaller during opening. another failure

its possible its the motor, there in the ground. they get wet and do fail and looking at the wiring in the control board, id say you gate is also non compliant with standards and shouldn't be put back into service. no safety edges connected and can pretty much guarantee it will fail a force test

you mean 'its not the answer i wanted, but thanks anyway'. sounds about right.

so.. if its class 2 then it can't become live. if its class 1 then it'll be earthed. end result of a fault would be the same if the bench was earthed or not

where's the risk going to come from?

works most of the time

texecom has gone downhill the last few years. tech support too. used to be decent kit, not so much now

well if you want the place destroyed even more to rip all the old cables out then you could. usually would be cut back though

someone shorted the battery leads and blown a fuse?

no reg but there is a note in appendix 15 recommending fixed loads over 2kw to be on their own circuit

any decent electrician will have a MCB lockout. if you're not going to get that out to lock off the circuit, then you probably wouldnt put a lock through a uilt in lockoff either

why no earth on one of them? which is the supply & fan? either your circuit supplying the fan has the earth cut off or you have the connectors the wrong way, usually the one without the earth would be the socket / supply, the one with the earth would be the plug

the switch isn't suitable for the wiring you have. you need to either replace the wiring or the switch

normal size half round does for most jobs

you can have your own private meters to the flats however there are some laws around the charging - basically you can't make a profit from it and only sell it for what it costs to buy it would be best to get DNO / meter company involved and get individual meters so each flat is responsible for...

and this raises even more questions... you say housing association. so why do you have an installation with no RCD protection? why has this not already been checked previously and dealt with? how many other properties do you have that have not had an EICR / remedials carried out? what was the...

why? if the hob has a max rating of 13a then the cable cannot be overloaded. and in almost all circumstances, 32a fault protection on a 2.5 is also good, so why would it be in trouble? what about every 2.5 spur from a 32a MCB? are they in trouble too?

quick temp repair you've just got to do what you can with what you've got. but you should have also been well aware that it was the wrong board and will need replaced with the correct one as soon as practical, instead of asking how to bodge the existing board you have