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    wants some thankyous for his unconstructive replies :)

    wants some thankyous for his unconstructive replies :)
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    Plaster Directly On Electric Cabling

    ye, probably, I was just bored and found myself happily going through writing obvious comments on loads of questions completely oblivious to when they were posted lol :oops:
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    Plaster Directly On Electric Cabling

    just put it in a conduit. Get galvanised, the plastic stuff always splits. It just might save having to rip it all out when someone hammers in a tack for a picture frame and gets a nice bang :)
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    cabling an electric shower

    Just in response to an earlier post about notifying building control. I'm wondering, do any DIYer's ever actually bother notifying building control? Most jobs DIYer's attempt are pretty simple anyway, which means they don't want to fork out for an electrician to come and botch it up as they...
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    Life isn't that simple. You can't just wrap everyone in bubble wrap to prevent anyone from ever getting harmed. It's called free will. Maybe people should be made to notify the health authority every time they cook some chicken, so they can come out and check it's cooked properly. It could save...
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    sod it, I might as well keep going now I'm on a roll: Part P is red tape in my opinion. One example: as people are no longer allowed to open their fuse boxes, they can't do things properly, so they make do. So, I want to put a 3kw immersion heater in, oh, I can't run a new circuit because I...
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    Oh, and the armoured cable is 2.0mm not 2.5mm. I'm not just being dense. It was a homebase invention. Can't imagine .5mm will ever make any difference though. As I say, it had a picture of a plug socket and a light on roll's packaging, so I'm guessing it can be used for 13amp or 3 amp applications.
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    I think Ban-all-sheds needs a shed, then he can wire it up and see where I'm coming from :) Hope this isn't too complicated a theory, but I was under the impression that if a cable is running through insulation, if it is operating at near full load it is much more likely to get warm...
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    Wow, so much confusion lol I like it how if anyone ever mentions the word 'garden' in this electrical forum, there's a sudden raising of red flags anyways, PrenticeBoyofDerry has more or less given me the constructive answers I was looking for. I thankyou good sir ;) I will run a 2.5mm cable...
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    Also, I used TLC's voltage drop thing to check the size of the new cable, but as half is in ceiling and other half is buried outside, depending on which factors I change, sometimes it comes out 2.5mm, other times 4mm. Point is, outside part is protected by an existing 13A RCD spur, so I guess I...
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    Ye, sorry for confusion I installed garden circuit before Part P came in. It's a 13 A RCD spur off the indoor ring, currently with 3 plugs and 2 lights. I'm planning pulling a 2.5mm cable from the current fuse box to the 13a RCD in the living room through the ceiling ready for my electrician...
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    changing old type light switch to new type

    Thinking about it, are the lights on the wall or in the ceiling? unscrew the light fittings and see how the switch is looped
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    changing old type light switch to new type

    Is the old switch 2-way? I.e. is there another switch nearby that also operates the 2 lights. If it's 1 way, there's only a red and black. If it's 2 way, there'd usually be red, blue and yellow. So I'm not sure why there'd be a black and 2 reds.
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    Supply to loft.

    Practically, it will work fine. But with the new regulations, probably not so much lol. I think to comply with the new part P electrical codes, you would technically need to use 4mm cable for a radial circuit which has more than 2 double sockets on it just in case you decided to plug more than...
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    Alterations to Garden Radial

    Hi I installed a garden radial circuit off a 30ma 13 amp RCD spur from my ring main before part P came in. When I did it, I took 2.5mm cable in a conduit from the house to a socket on the patio, likewise a 1.5mm to a light which is switched from a 3amp fused switch indoors but protected by...
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