Recent content by sparkwright

Don't get it painted. It will get dirty, and need doing every few years. It's a job for life.

You could of course have a stand-alone RCD unit, situated just after the consumer unit. What are you thinking - a 6.5kW shower? I would not recommend fitting a shower without an RCD nowadays.

I've had that with outside bollards - all twelve lamps had blown. You just don't think all twelve could be gone before someone reports a problem.

Wouldn't a disconnected neutral wire show up as being live anyway?

Rub it down, and paint it white.

Have you tried leaving a damp cloth on an area?

I was looking at some old plastic MK consumer units I fitted getting on for 20 years ago (it seems like only yesterday) and marvelling at how discoloured and shabby the look now.

Probably due to no smokers perhaps - have sometimes just tried to change the head, but the yellow bases looked so awful I couldn't leave it like that.

If you've ever had a terminal screw that doesn't tighten, or you've broken one by accident...

The old bases always go yellow - you can always tell if you don't change the bases.

Which rooms have the battery only rf detectors? Has a bungalow extension been added recently? Trying to figure out why the mains ones have become redundant - especially because it's usually easy to add more mains detectors in a bungalow.

Is this just not conventional conduit wiring, with a neutral in, and neutral out, and a switched live? Can you see another continuous red wire simply running from one conduit to another conduit in the round circular ceiling box?

That's a hell of a lot damage. Being a dot and dab wall, a lot of the cable could have been fished behind the board, and chased only where a dot is. Still, not my problem.

Another vote for a different insulation filling.

I don't see any need to label unused cores that have been terminated in connector blocks. If there is only one wire in the connector block, it's fairly obvious it's spare - or at least, 'not doing anything'.