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You would pay import taxes if being shipped from abroad. Bigger issue is offshoring profits, as we have discussed before.

Aye, how the hell do you enforce legislation if buying off the likes of Temu?

OK, food for thought. Assuming this is being spurred off a 32A ring main, wire the spur in 4mm cable, which is of course suitable for 32A without fusing down, given suitable installation requirements like not running through 500mm insulation.

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Nope :ROFLMAO:

No and No :)

Very hard to pin down a good make these days. 100w should be bright enough for just about anything, but be aware led tends to less forward focussed and give a wider spread of light, so point them lower than the old units.

My bad, 2000 still seems like yesterday to me 😃.

So the place was rewired, but nobody changed the board, which is very much out of date. So, at a rough guess, there's probably nothing wrong with the wiring, but build up of earth leakage from multiple appliances is taking out the RCD. My recommendation would be to get the board changed, ideally...

If it's tripping at random times, it's most likely a fridge or freezer. Sounds like you have a single RCD, is that the case?

I used to have a dental mirror, which disappeared some while ago, so just use phone cam now.

Looping in / out feeds at the switches rather than the old fashion way of doing that at a ceiling rose is increasingly popular. I'm not a great fan of doing things this way for the obvious reasons you just found..However, at least the cables have been marked.

the two issues should be completely separate. If the PIR swop failed, it's either wired wrong, of there's possibly a manual override switch. as for the sockets, do you have a gas boiler connected to that circuit? That would also need switching off if you have. Tripping could be many things...

It would be hard to make any direct comparisons, with a large number of immigrants working in the trades, especially in London, it would be like comparing apples and pears. We would have been better off with a scheme along the lines for the French. No one can ply a trade without demonstrating...

About the only thing I've not still found in use 😃

Cable has a lifespan dependent on use, I saw some figures for that a few years ago. A piece of 2.5mm running at full capacity 24/7 can expire in as little as 5 years. I rewired a house that had been bombed during WW2 and fully rebuilt around 1948. The whole house was VIR, and tested as just...

after much discussion on here some time ago, we concluded the actual regs requirement is 2Mohm for the whole installation ie IR between L Nand E busbars with the breakers in the on position (electric off of course).

This one really annoyed me. Should have told her £10k and rewired the place 🤣

No idea, I think most of my local builders have iind if stopped doing electrics. Plenty of DiYers though.

If that's how it was connected originally, then it looks like your labels are correct, and the red and black go together so they all switch on from a single point