Recent content by aidan1979

Thanks a lot Adam. That will put all our minds at rest. BTW is there anywhere online that will show a diagram of this type of wiring for my info? On the neutral you can see copper but its only a couple of mm. I'll put some tape on it for her when i'm netx down.

Hi All My sister asked me to change one of her double light switches to a double dimmer switch. Her house is a new build which she bought off-plan, was completed about 18 months ago and had the electrics signed off by a qualified electrician that worked for the construction company. I...

Hi All Just wondering how many sockets you can run off a ring main (which already has two spurs running off it - one to underfloor heating unit which is only on in the early morning and another for the Honeywell heating control unit). FYI 2.5mm cable has been used protected by 32A MCB...

Not yet but we will do. Not sure if you've seen any of my other posts but it seems that our builders screwed through a ring main cable when putting up some plasterboard so we need to get that fixed. We will therefore be etting someone in to do that and certify all the house electrics - if...

Hi We've had new downlighters fitted in the sitting room and kitchen. They are mains voltage recessed ones and have 50W GU12 bulbs in them. The ceilings were lowered because the joists were really bent and dipped in parts so the new ceilings are in parts up to 2.5 inches lower than they...

Thanks for your help didthathurt. I had wired the cable from the JB to the first light incorrectly. I did as you suggested and now it all works fine. Thanks a lot!

Didthathurt and Johnny G Thanks a lot for your help. I will try your suggestions tonight or tomorrow night and will let you know how I get on. If I'm getting nowhere, I will post you my no. didthathurt and take you up on your kind offer. Thanks again. Aidan

HI Johnny T and thanks for your time. The first light I have wired "as normal" (i.e. the switched live from the switch goes to the switched live in the light and the live goes to the live block. I think the mistake might lie in that to go from this first light to the second (and so on) I have...

Thanks for your post didthathurt. I may not have explained it properly but the wiring you explained re the 4-terminal JB is as i have done it (albeit that I used red sleeving as opposed to brown). Its how to connect from the JB to the lights and then from one light to the other (i.e. in...

Hi All I am trying to wire 4 wall lights and 1 ceiling rose in the loft (i.e. 4 lights in each corner of the loft and 1 ceiling rose in the middle - its a pretty large loft and less lights than this wouldn't really do the job). However, qwhen I wired them up, the bulbs (each 100W) were...

Not entirely sure but it is on this forum that I was told about Euro vox, chipped boxes, etc. - I was asking about how "cable" worked and whether it was or was not electrics (i.e. could you extend "cable" within your home in a similar manner to normal electrical circuits) etc and I was told to...

Hi I've been looking through different forums, websites, ebay, etc. and theres a lot of debate as to whether these boxes work, crash a lot, remotes don't work, automatically update themselves/don't automatically update themselves and you haev to spend ages on the net trying to find software...

Do do you suggest just subscribing for Broad band and telephone, then just splitting the cable from the broadband box on the wall to the sitting room for tv? If so, could I also split it to have a second tv with its owm box in the bedroom? One other question, does the Eurovox not need an NTL...

Why do you have to double up for halogen downlights? What would happen if he just ran 4x50W lights to a 250W dimmer and the same for the other four downlights?

Hi fattony ... how does that box work? Does it need a "cracked" card of sorts? I've quickly skimmed a few of the sellers pages in ebay but none of them say (in any way) that this allows you see every single Sky channel with a basic package. Does the box need to be chipped in any way? Is there...