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Hi I have extension to supply. Extension is kitchen / diner downstairs. Bedroom / bathroom upsatirs. Using oil combi for shower Using gas for hob. Rest of house wiring a muddle dont want to touch so want to run a new supply off exisitng wylex split rcd board to  second small cu. Length of...

Hi oven being replaced. Old oven had a dedicated 32 amp 6mm supply  with cooker conection unit. New oven comes with plug - Any ideas best way to connect this up? Thinking along the lines of downgrade mcb to 16amp - change ccu to fcu to take the 6mm - connect the fcu to a single socket in 2.5mm...

Old lighting wiring - no cpc - new metal spot lights stipulate an earth must be used - please advice. thanks

Hedge trimmer cable cut clean through :innocent . TNCS - RCD protected circuit 32Amp - should the rcd not have tripped as there would have been an inbalance? Nothing tripped - no fuse blew.

PIR outside light. Is it acceptable to use a spare 6amp mcb with rcd protection in CU and run 1.5 mm arctic blue straight to the light? So in effect using the mcb as a switch / isolator if required. This is just to cause the least amount of disruption to internal of house - i.e no need to...

Hi I am looking to do the full 17th edition exam. I have been looking at courses and from what I can gather it is just class room based where in reality they are teaching you how to read a book. These course are usually 4 days and at

Bathroom extractor - normally you wire off light - i.e you turn on light and extractor comes on. In this case the bathroom has much natural light and the light in most cases will not be switched on. There is no bath so extractor really only needed when shower is used - can a extractor fan be...

Plastered in back box - you come to fit the face plate - you insert the screw and damn the thread in the box is knackered - Is there any easy and quick way to rethread these. I know you can take the box out but probably result in making a mess of the plaster. Any pointers please

Many lightning storms seems to effect this house. So far in two years 3 skye phones and two computers damaged by lightning strikes. Overhead telephone and power in rural location on a cliff top ? Is there a way to surge protect both telephone and power ? Currently use surge protectors on...

cable to be run underground to a shed - the armoured cable is it brought all the way to the consumer unit or is it normally run in normal t&e to a good location and then joined in a connection box or similar before it goes outside?

A safe site is a tidy site and 110V only :innocent

This porch was a replacement for an existing porch but they wanted toilet and sink in it as well in seperate small room. Me and the lad helping me did this in about 1 week as we had to go on holiday. The wiring was already there I just tidied it up and all there was was two outside lights and...

This was a bungalow I gutted and rebuilt as it was rough - very rough. I rewired it through building control. It was a 1940's bungalow - It was supplied on a shared fuse board with a property next door. All there was was 1 * 2.5mm cable to feed the whole place. (there was no electric shower or...

Required full rewire - upgrading of tails - all work via building control as I am not yet qualified. This was a ***** of a job as it was so rotten and had ceilings that were all too low (in places under 5 foot - in doorways) so had to sort all timber out first and raise all the ceilings. The...

A small cellar in a old house. Even though the cellar was dry I still renderer the walls with an internal mebrane, laid a new concrete floor with membrane - floated an insulated chipboard floor. Built a stud frame as the walls were out by over 2 feet in places and to hide the plumbing! Also this...

Ok I know the 2330 is supposed to end this month but the lecturer just informed me that now it might be staying -something to do with a wolfe report. Anyone got further info on this cos I am wondering about whether to go onto the 2330 level 3 now before end of March or otherwise if the above is...

makita 18v lithion ion batteries Gone through 3 of these batteries in 12 months - comes up as fault on charger. Ok as they are on guarantee and customer service is great. Just not looking forward to when guarantee runs out as the batteries are expensive. Anyone else having problems with these...

This guy took off a socket face and accidently shortened the cable so much he could not get the wires into the terminals - Is there a was to safely and legally to extend the wire in a back box? No slack so can it be extended or all have to be ripped out?

Might seem a daft question - what is the recognised standard way of doing this and what tools do you use? Thanks