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Afternoon, i have a shop and flat in one building that at the moment has one meter and i get one bill, but i want to get a second meter put in for the flat so i can have seperate bills for the flat tenants and shop tenants. At the moment the flat and shop have there own consumer units...

Afternoon all, I have been having some problems with electric cuts in my business (fault on the grid). They have informed me that they are again working on the grid this week and i may have loss of supply. The electric board have suggested temporarily hiring and putting in a generator so i...

Afternoon, I am in the process of replacing my compressor in my garage. I have 3 phase supply and and trying to figure out how to wire it in. At present i have 3 phases and earth going into an isolator and then to the old compressor. My new one (to me but second hand) has turned up and is...

Evening all, i have had a couple of quotes to update electrics in one of my properties, but i am bit confused with bonding of the bathroom. One quote states i need supplementary bonding to bathroom, but other said there is no need as all circuits will be RCD protected and tested under 1666...

Hi, I am having some problems with low voltage downlights and am trying to check if transformers are working. I have a digital multimeter that is recording 240v input but between 0-2v output, but should this be 12v. I have measured transformers that i know are working and i still get this...

Afternoon, have just moved into a new house about 3 weeks ago and since then the main RDC has been tripping 3 or 4 times a day, so i am losing all my power. I was pretty sure it was the shower as, when i switched the shower isolator on it would trip, often but not always. So i turned the...

Evening, i have 8 radiators in my house, but if i have more than 2 or 3 on the rest do not heat up. Even the 2 that do are not very hot at all? I have bled every radiator and this has made no difference. My hot water is very hot. I have a sabre combi boiler. Any advice would be very...

Evening, i have 2 x metal halide light fittings at the front of my shop which i want to brighten up a bit. The fittings have 70w bulbs at the moment and i was wondering if i can put 150w bulbs in them? The fitting has a 70w sticker on, but does not say max load anywhere on it as far as i can...

Morning, I have recently had 4 Vista Dome Cameras installed in my shop, which worked fine until about 2 months ago. Now only 2 are working / getting a picture on the screen. I have rang the company who installed these who are quoting me a call out fee to come an inspect even though there were...

Afternoon, i am changing the position of my TV to the other side of my living room. At present i only have 1 tv point which will be no good. Basically i want a tv point over the other side of my room, and wondered the best way to do this? I live in a bungalow and wondered if i could split...

Afternoon, i have an office with a normal table top telephone and would like to put an external sounder / bell outside of the office, so i can hear the phone ring if i am not in my office. Is this possible? and if so how would i do it? Thanks

Evening, i have a Neovo TV that i use for CCTV in my bar. Today the screen is just black. The power pack is working and the green power light is on the TV but i am getting no picture. I have tried another TV and that is fine. Has the screen gone? Is there anything i can try to fix the TV...

Hi, i have a bar that has outside lights consisting of 12 x 70w sodium lights and 5 x 40w pendant lights. They have worked fine for months but last week for no apparent reason the B10 breaker tripped. I reset it first time and all of the lights were still working, but then about 2 hours later...