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If you have a multimeter, can you go to a local dealer and "borrow" a cable for a bit? You might be able to figure out by measuring resistance/continuity between the 3 pin plug and the other end what the cables are doing.

Embossed into the grey insulation (difficult to read as not at eye level), 6mm² and some more text/numbers.

It goes through the ceiling/floor (i'm not sure if there is any insulation there), up the landing wall to the switch and then through the wall to the shower. Maximum of a 8m run from CU-Switch and then < 1M to shower. When you say buried in masonry, is it acceptable for it to be dug into the...

Hi all, Had an electrician fit me a new shower cable. Since they've fitted it, when the shower is in use it heats up quite dramatically. The cable is 6mm2 T+E, the shower is a 10.8kW (9.9kW at 230v) unit. The cable is currently in free air running as they are returning to run wiring to the...

£60! The PTFE tape and a new (slightly wider) jubilee clip has stopped the leak, used a 1/4" socket and ratchet to tighten up. Kept a container underneath it which has remained dry for the time since doing it. Surprisingly not smelly when cleaning it. Not a fan of the old latex gloves having...

List price for a Capacitor, micro switch, rubber membrane and clip was £125. I bought the capacitor from RS Components with free next day delivery for £6.50. I dread to think how much that pipe would be. Browsing around the saniflo and macerator spares sites I haven't really found anything that...

Hi all! Long time no post. Came home to a toilet full of water and a non-functioning macerator. Lots of baling and dismantling later discover the capacitor has failed - source a replacement and totally cleaned/reassembled the macerator - and reinstalled. The copper pipe and upper jubilee clip...

Hey guys, My house has the BT drop wire attach to the house, and then just inside an upstairs window is an old junction box (just containing 4 screw terminals, red/black wire on one side, and multicoloured on the other), with two cables heading off to the two phone sockets. Neither of these...

Thanks ban-all-sheds, that's what i'd thought - thanks for the links!

Hey guys, We had our garage converted into a bedroom, and so while that was being done our electric consumer unit was moved and a new one was fitted (we had an old style wired fuse one before that). Now we have also covered over the passage up the side of our house, and want to place a couple...

Got a few gaps behind my toilet in the garage conversion which need filling, around where the waste pipe (copper - with a foam cover) heads up to join the main waste stack. These gaps are between the external wall, foam insulation board, and a wooden backboard which the macerator sits against...

Yes, it would be better to have it pulled forward of the unit - however, the size of the room (and entire conversion in general), means that would not have been possible anyway. We had to get a downstairs bathroom put in for my sister (who is partially disabled, and finds stairs...

Been meaning to do this for a while - after our garage conversion this was one point that we were not too happy about, but after tooing and froing with the carpenter we decided to just leave the matter and do it ourselves. Last winter it froze up, I expect because there is actually little to no...

Had a garage conversion done last year, with a new boiler + radiators (as old system was going on 20-25 years old). The garage conversion was done as a kind of structural work only, the decorating was left to ourselves (which, as of yet, none of us have got round to!) The flue has been left...