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My knickers are not twisted at all, Whats the point of having a forum where people can ask honest questions and then be beaten over the head with a stick with comments like," Have you even read the descriptions"? or "and customer supplied CUs tend to be the cheapest nastiest £25 off of Ebay...

Yes, I did read the description, but obviously, I ( like you) could not see what the different was, except price!!! Now , I don't claim to be an electrican, just someone who in a general does a lot of D.I.Y, including some electrical work, but as the new laws say I am now suddenly totally...

Hi,I am sorcing a consumer unit for my 3 bed house, quick summary, Installing kitchen, replacing oven with double oven, need to run a new cooker cable back to fuse box (cooker 20 amp) going to run cable and sparky to hook up new consumer unit , test bonding and certificte! I have seen to...

Thanks, I just thought they all had to conform to CE, BSSE, standard, I didnt think that they would be able to sell me something that wasnt safe or upto standard! Just phoned there shop and they are all certificated and are R.O.H.S compliante, so it would be up to the spark really!

In my last house I had , board with an 30mA RCD as the main switch, and your pefectly right, it tripped out everything. I am just going to run a new cooker cable back to my excisting board but It looks likes it need replacing anyway, would this be ok/...

Thats a great help, thanks! Also, does anyone know is it better to get a new consumer unit with an R.C.D or with normal M.C.B ( I am not fitting it)?

just wondering, Can I run 6mm cable behind alcoving? Are there any new part P laws against it? From what I have read It seems that you cannot run It behind Scirting board anymore but There is nothing to say about alcoving! This would save me ripping nearly a whole ceiling down!

[/img] excisting cooker switch! I no image is vertical but where my fridge is is where the double oven will be, I was going to put the new cooker switch on the wall by the red tray! Fuse box! veiw inside fuse box with a spare fuse furthest left, any help! The house...

Yes but gas is smelly and horrible, and expensive especially when your not connected to gas maine!!!!! Is that a yes then, can I run both appliances off of one switch?

Hi, I want to move and upgrade my cooker and am looking to buy a double oven. My excistng cooker point is a normal cooker switch(fused 30 amp at the consumer unit)but I would like to extend from that point by about 5 ft, could I in effect blank off the switch and connect a new cable(6/10 mm) to...