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Dear Forum, I have a detached garage from my flat. I wanted mains for lighting but the freeholder wouldn't let me run a cable to it and so I've put a solar panel on the roof which charges a couple of car batteries and I run some low voltage LED lights from this. Everything has been working...

Morning everyone, My girlfriend and I have just got this repossessed flat and have had it rewired. The walls are now covered in chases (that have been roughly filled) and gouges from the scraper I used to remove the wallpaper and old Artex that was previously there. We are unsure about...

I'd agree with you on the electric shower point, however we're on an economy 7 tariff and use the shower first thing so want to be able to use the water from the tank. Have also thought about installing a larger tank, however, the problem is there are only a limited range of combination tank...

Hello all, Have just moved into a flat with a 1075 by 450 direct combination hot water cylinder. There is no shower since there'd be insufficient head from the tank outlet. I was planning on fitting a small negative head pump (18 litres/min) to the hot water tank outlet. However, the cold...

So in the end we used the conduit for the lighting circuits and put minitrunking behind the coving and chases down to the new power outlets. The conduit was in good condition and there was plenty of space to run an additional earth. However the ring main conduit would have struggled with cables...

To be honest, I don't have the stomach for removing the existing plaster and dotting n dabing new boards in..!

Just spoke to someone who sells cables, he reckons that it is sometimes possible (if the plaster is deep enough) to simply chase to the concrete without disturbing it then put in the 1.5mm T&E before capping and skimming... my concern would be that there would be insufficient thickness of...

The surveyor estimated that the flat had been built in 1965. Bernardgreen, we would only be using the conduit for 1.5mm cable for the lighting circuits and conduit for the power rings (since existing conduit doesn't seem to go all the way round the rooms since it was only ever intended for a...

They had a look at the conduit which currently has single wires run through it and they weren't confident in running new cable through without it jamming on the tight bends. I am tempted to buy some 1.5mm cable and attempt to run it through the conduit myself to see what happens...

Hello all, My girlfriend and I have clawed our way onto the property ladder by buying a 1 bed flat. It's all concrete and the ring mains and lighting circuits are run through conduit. The wiring is pretty haphazard throughout with one spur running through the plaster with no earth :shock: ...