Recent content by oxfordjoe

Thanks for your excellent and very quick replies. 1) The current sockets ring is on the RCD protected side of the consumer unit. I do not remember the rating of RCD though and wont see it till the weekend 2) The new sockets would be for repositioning the TV in the living room and...

Hi 1) I have an unspurred single socket on a ring main It is on a plasterboard/partition wall I want to spur directly horizontally or vertically to a new socket or FCU I think that my new cable will thus be in safe zone and I WONT have to bury the cable more than 50mm? Is this true...

I tend to get most of my stuff from Screwfix which do the Mapei range. adhesive: If I were to use a powdered adhesive, they sell Mapei Keraflex in white which is a cement based adhesive with 30mins working time grout: Mapei ultracolour plus in white. Was going to use this anyway ideally...

Have tanked around bath using the dunlop kit over gyproc moisture plasterboard. Was aiming to use BAL whitestar premixed adhesive for the ceramic tiles we will have. I am a slow tiler, hence my use of premix. However, have been getting comments from local merchant that the premixed...

I put this in the wrong section earlier so here goes again... have installed bath. Tiles NOT on yet. Aim to seal around bath, then tile, then seal again. will of course fill bath before filling/sealing Problem is that we have one edge of about 30cm that has a gap between wall and bath of...

taps are suitable for gravity water pressure we have according to instructions isolation valves will be fitted, thanks I did see some stuff from WRAS regarding backflow contamination from flexible shower hoses i.e. to stop your shower head dipping into the bath, basin or toilet. WRAS...

In process of refitting bathroom. Cold water to bathroom is gravity fed from tank in loft. I assume same tank refills the hot water cylinder which is heated by an immersion heater (yes, an immersion). Hot water then runs to from cylinder to bathroom. We are planning a Bristan bath/shower mixer...

doughnut is rubber (the loo is Lecico atlas) and looks substantial will have to compress join to connect to existing (wet) pipe got zinc coated screws, a good point

have installed bath. Tiles NOT on yet. Aim to seal around bath, then tile, then seal again. will of course fill bath before filling/sealing Problem is that we have one edge of about 30cm that has a gap between wall and bath of about 6mm. gap isnt so big that tiles woud slip thru to floor...

installing an extractor fan in a utility room (no sink in there). I want to spur horizontally from an existing wall socket (unspurred as yet) to an FCU. Then go vertical from the FCU, then dogleg a right angle to a flex outlet plate for the extractor. If the dogleg is within 15cm of the ceiling...

Thanks for your answers so far. regarding (3) the routing of the cable, this is in many ways the most important question. Oharaf, you say the current diagram is naff but what is your solution? I cant put the FCU above the cooker and below the hood !! The only other alternative would be to go...

Installing kitchen and aim to use exisiting circuits if possible. I have shown a diagram of the circuit to the cooker hood via an FCU - Wire to 2 gang socket is 2.5mm twin plus earth -wire from 2gang to FCU is 2.5mm twin plus earth - FCU is switched and currently has 13A fuse in it (3A...

thanks very much for all that. Pictures help all round two last things: a) I can cut access in cabinet frame to FCU where socket 1 would be BUT there may be a drawer here rather than a cupboard door (battle with missus over this currently). There would theoretically still be access to...

Thanks so far guys diagram more like socket 1 which is not a spur will be covered by screwed in cabinet in utility room, and it is this socket I wanted to convert to junction. I wanted to spur off socket 2 to the dotted one on the right but looking at my own pic, socket 2 is in fact a...

A 1G 13A socket (1) is spurred vertically to another 1G 13A socket (2). If I replace the first 1G 13A socket with a connector (chocblock + blank plate or alternatively a flex outlet plate) would I legally and safely be allowed to spur from the second socket? Reasons for these...