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Actually, the mixing and matching aspect was only brought into BS7671 recently because sparks were not following the legislation and standards which were in place since 1975. The issues with consumer unit fires came to light and manufacturers pushed for more regulation, hence the entries in BS7671.

It's not supposition and scaremongering. It is a description of the procedure for the potential pitfalls of following said route. The reason I have not embellished it with examples and anything that could be interpreted as a real-life scenario was in an attempt to keep the explanation abstract...

Mixing of brands of devices within a consumer unit breaks the product safety standards requirements and the product safety legislation. Therefore your Livd branded consumer unit with some Live brand devices and some from another company will no longer comply with the legislation. The person who...

The connection is for the line conductor. Neutral conductors are not supplied via a circuit breaker. Unless the replacement 6kA/32A unit is Live brand then it is not compatible with the existing system. If a different manufacturer device is fitted to the unit then it is no longer compliant with...

The use of a Schneider breaker has been mentioned. That cannot be fitted into the consumer unit in the photographs. If it is, the assembly will fall foul of the safety requirements in safety standards and legislation. Additionally, the Schneider (Square D) breaker has a proprietary mounting...

Unfortunately, we have a fight with General Practice and the entrenched views thereof. I have posted a link above to a very recent article by PCa UK on diagnosis and neither the blood test nor DRE is recommended alone. Any man over 50 is entitled to testing for PCa, including a PSA test, but GP...

Sorry to @Walter_B for taking over his introduction post, but you have raised such a massively important point with male health that it has struck a chord with many here. Thank you for that. Hopefully, with its presence in the welcome as rea it will encourage other new recruits to read the...

I didn't find the biopsy too bad. Mind, it is quite like having an electric shock up inside you. Mine was transrectal, not transperineal.

Shame, never mind, but if you can help, that would be awesome, thank you.

Do you have/can you get the details for the LED strip, please?

One can argue that it's one circuit because it's one protective device...

I know that PSA isn’t perfect, but it’s a start, and if you check the guidelines from Prostate Cancer UK, this has changed from the old recommendations, to become a worthwhile test, due to improvements in the procedure. PSA would have worked on me. 🤷 A lot of work has been and is being done on...

The DRE (Digital Rectal Examination) is not as bad as it sounds. Let's put it like this, a finger up the bum or an early death. If I had known, I know which I would have chosen, but because I was a fool, I made the wrong choice. The DRE comes AFTER the PSA blood test, and probably 2 PSA blood...

The PSA test is non-invasive in as much as it is done in the same way as any “normal” blood test. I am aware of the new test. I tend to keep up with the availability of treatments because I have had so many fail on me! Thank you for the heads up anyway. I suspect many people will not be aware of...

I am happy to discuss my situation too, and I think that the issue with some of my friends, they can't cope with the fact that I am coping. But them not coping is not helping me. You might be able to guess that I am happy to discuss this from these posts. On top of that, I have authored several...

"Apparently" I have been lucky in getting Prostate cancer. But that's complete nonsense. Prostate Ca kills 1 man every 45 minutes in the UK and affects 1 in 8 white men. It affects 1 in 4 of our darker-skinned ethnic brothers of middle Eastern African and Asian origins I believe. The 1 in 4 is...

A fellow warrior. Welcome to the forum. I too have been hit with cancer, unfortunately for me, mine has resulted in metastatic spinal cord compression, which paralysed me so no more sparkying for me. 😢

It is, ITTT, If This Then That is commonly used with Hue.

I would second Philips Hue. I have gone down that road at my own home and I am a spark. I went that way to give myself some of my independence back following paralysis from cancer. I have integrated lamps and a bridge into the Hue App and Apple Home, along with a Netatmo smart doorbell. ITTT and...

Cutting into voids or breaching fire barriers is something completely different to consider than “fire sealing” a consumer unit.