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I have recently installed spotlights in my landing ceiling and want to cover part of the loft over the lights. The lights give out quite a bit of heat. I have cut away to 100mm the loft insulation around the lights and want to cover over the lights with loft flooring. If I drill a number of...

Part of my loft is boarded over insulation. I've installed some spotlights into the ceiling but not wired them up yet but the connections are raised above the level of the boarding by an inch or so. I suppose I can either: raise the level of the boarded area with approx 2"x 2" timber...

Hi, Can you help with this wiring problem that is not covered in the wiki. I have a double switch in the hall that should power the hall lights and an outside light. The outside light has never worked, but the hall lights have. The wiring at the switch has (on the working side), a live...

Hi, I've recently moved into the hous and have found that the insulation is only 150mm, but, covering most of the loft space a second layer has been added across the joists. Obviously there is a danger when trying to find out where to walk and it is laid over wiring, but in relation to the...

It seems that you should not connect a spur (for outside lights) from a socket that is already a spur, or from a socket that is feeding a spur. Is that because of concerns about overloading or is there another reason? I would like to connect up to 4 outside lights to power but the most...

I have a double switch downstairs which activates a downstairs and seperately activates an upstairs light which only turns on and off the upstairs light. The downstairs has 2 sets of wires wired as follows:- Red to L1, Black to L2 and nothing to L3 at the other end of the switch it is...

I'm replacing a 2 gang switch and the current wiring is as follows Top Red to Com, Black to L2, and L1 empty, Bottom Yellow to L2, Blue to L1 and Red to Com. On the new switch it only has L1, L2 and L3 at top and bottom. I thought that the L3's could have been Com but this only...

I intend using a multi socket to plug my TV, DVD, Surround sound system, games console and amplifier into 1 plug socket. Would this overload the socket? Thanks. Paul

I've just replaced a load of light switches and sockets in the living room. On replacing 1 of the sockets I blew the 5 amp fuse. Although I've repaired the fuse, the upstairs lights together with the lights in the part of the living room I had been working in refuse to light. The wiring...

I'm replacing all of the switches in my living room. Can anyone help with a couple of problems:- 1. If the terminals on the new socket are marked COM, 1 Way and 2 Way, do you wire the live to the com terminal, and the neutral to the 1 way terminal? 2. I have a switch that has two...

I'm replacing an old double light switch. The current wiring comprises of 4 wires, and the 4 reds are each wired to one of 4 terminals marked A, A1, B and B1. All of the blacks are together and not attached to any terminal. In addition there is a seperate wire joining A to B. My new...

I'm trying to put up a new light to replace the old one.. I've wired the 2 blacks to the 3 neutrals from the light I've wired the 1 switch black wire to the 3 browns from the light. I've left all 3 reds joined alone. I've joined the earth from the light to the earths. Yet one of the 3...

I have a spur socket which has been converted to a double socket. I would like to use this socket to power my TV, video, satellite system and other devices, possible totalling some 5 or 6. Would it be possible to use a small extension lead with the required number of sockets to power all of...