Recent content by Llarius

Firstly thanks for the helpful contribution (which Bernard had already sorted for me-and I've now done it and have a working lamp), but I Think you'll find to the uninitiated in the diagram it says a blue with brown sheathing, whereas the next one down said brown...I thought I had a brown, not...

Thanks Bernard. I thought it was probably as simple as that, but didn't want to risk anything if I was wrong! better safe than sorry is my moto for electrics, gas and plumbing... This is about the extent of my electrical 'handywork', anything else and we get a professional in!

Bought a new light fitting for our new house (new build), and the wiring diagram has confused me somewhat (it doesn't take much!)... light fitting wiring diagram So the problem I have is that our household supply has an earth, brown and blue, but not the fourth wire/core that would be...

Also I've checked the cabling coming out of the consumer unit and it says something which I presume means made in Doncaster, and 10.0 which I assume relates to the cable size.

For me as the uninitiated, can you explain to me what that would do/how long it would take, and what might cause that?

I guess in that case, I'm going to be asking for the best option, be that entirely new units to replace existing or whatever then. Stupidly overpaid to nearly pay off a new sofa the other day...oh well, bring on payday!

Interestingly it was the plumbers who suggested this may need to be done, not the electrician (they said that before they contacted him, just to warn us about the cost implication). I think that's what I'm going to discuss with the electrician when he comes round.

Thanks guys. I at least now have a bit more knowledge about the subject so I can have a sensible conversation with our electrician when he comes round. Just googled the 40A thing on the 10.8kW Mira Sport max and it seems to be discussed in various places, including on this forum previously...

Don't worry about the graphs - they'll be useless to me! I've called our electrician (not the one that installed it), and am waiting to arrange an appointment with him. Are those checks fairly easy to do?

Assuming it is that simple, and all we need to do is change the 40A device to a 45A one, can you explain to me in plain English what is happening to the shower? I don't understand why it would run at all, or why it decides to randomly fail, or what causes it to fail. I appreciate that this is...

Thanks for that link. I've just had a read of that and the one for through floors, and from what I remember at the time, everything is in order in terms of location/routes. They were very conscientious, and made us aware of bad botches by the previous owners of the house that could cause...

I don't know how it was chased etc, but it goes from the consumer unit up through the ceiling, under the floor boards in our box room, then the hallway, and then chased in the wall in the bathroom (I'm sure that's what we were told), to the loft, to then come back down again to the shower unit.

We weren't given anything. I know this sounds silly, but I'm confident the right cable is in place - I'll check it later when I'm home. Do I just need to measure the width of the grey plastic coating? And like I said earlier, I didn't have any contact with the electrician. He was arranged...

I think there was certainly an element of keeping the costs down. We didn't contract the electrician. He was brought in by the plumbers, and the discussions we'd had with them, was effectively to keep costs down, but above all else ensure everything is safe - even if it pushes our budget up...

It is just the 40A device tripping out causing power loss to the shower.