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Hi, I have just finished the electrics on my extension and loft and will soon be having it checked at first fix. I am stuck on the earth bonding that is required on my house. There is 10mm earth cable going from the gas box to the consumer unit and 10mm earth going from the mains water supply...

Hi I seem to have a low votage live wire on the first floor lighting circuit when the fuse is switched off at the consumer unit. I realised this when it tripped the unit and the electrics went off. Upon testing I found that I needed to switch the ground floor lighting fuse off to clear the...

Hi in my loft there are a few heavy duty 20amp junction boxes for the lighting circuit with about six wires going in. Is this okay as far as safety and regulations are involved?

Hi, I am having trouble with wiring diagrams for connecting an expel-air dx100t to my bathroom light using junction boxes. I realise that there are a lot of posts to do with connecting to the switch or light rose but mine are all junction box connections. The fan has a timer and I am using 3...

Hi about 2 months ago I sand and cement rendered my bathroom walls upstairs using 4:1 mix and also water proofer. When I come to skimming it with multi-finish plaster 10 mins after the first coat goes on it starts to crack. I previously PVA'ed it before I mixed the plaster then again directly...

Hi I have just set up 2 way lighting in my new kitchen using a junction box method that some of the lighting was already using. for example the switched cable run to a junction box which had the 3 core and earth cables to two switches this works the lights on and off perfectly. When I tried to...

Hi I am just about to lay the cable for my kitchen sockets and I just wondered what the best practice was. 1) Cables routed from ceiling to socket up again across and down to next socket. 2) Cables from the floor up to socket then down, across and up to next socket. 3) Cables from floor or...

Hi can I route socket and lighting cable through the space in my ceiling without going through the beams. The space has been created by lowering the ceiling under new steelwork. The gap is about 50mm. I do understand about the regulations and I do have to have the work checked. Any advice...