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Could someone just confirm this for me? My customer wants me to install an illuminated mirror in her bathroom but the nearest, and only, electricity supply is the shower. I have told her I cannot take a spur off this feed as it is a dedicated supply to the shower. Am I right in saying this...

I'm installing a new bathroom suite for a customer but they arranged for the electrician to come in and sort out the electric supply for the shower. However, I am a little concerned as to how safe he has left the wiring for the new shower and, not being an experienced electrician, I would...

I was working at a customer's house yesterday (doing plumbing not electrics) when the customer asked if I would look at their Triton shower that was playing up. A year after it's installation, it has started tripping the MCB, but with a loud bang too, not just a simple trip! Apparently, the...

Hi, really need some help please with what I thought would be a simple job! I'm replacing three switches that control the hallway and landing light, a 1G 2W in the hall, and 2 x 2G 2W, one at the foot of the stairs and another upstairs. Both the 2G 2W switches control the upstairs landing...

Can anyone explain this? I tried bleeding a cold rad this morning (expecting there to be air in the system) but when I opened the bleed valve only a trickle of water came out (no air). So I closed the lockshield valve expecting the water pressure to increase, but instead the water stopped...

Help needed please! My uncle's house has 11 rads fed via microbore, a brand new Grundfos 15-16-130 pump and a 15-20 year old Potterton Netaheat boiler (serviced every year and heats water ok). Few weeks ago he asked me to look at a non-working rad in the bathroom. I noticed the lockshield...

Hi all, some advice needed please. I had an extension on the house this year which included a shower/toilet room (measures 8m3 with three external walls). I didn't bother plumbing a wet radiator in as I did not believe my boiler would handle any more (it's a Glowworm 30cxi with 9 radiators on...

Hi I've been trying to find a previous thread to help me on this but failed! I currently have a single light switch in my garage to operate a fluorescent tube, wired with a twin (blue and brown) and earth. I want to add an external PIR light and swap the single switch to a double so that I...

Hi I've just had a quote of £150+VAT from a company to carry out a Periodic Inspection and Test on Existing Circuitry and I have a couple of questions which I would very much appreciate someone answering:- 1. Is this a fair price? 2. What exactly should they do for this fee? 3. How long...

Hi Just had to fit a 1m high air admittance valve next to the toilet in a newly built shower/toilet room. However, it looks pretty ugly so I want to box it in with some MDF, but will that affect how it works? Any advice is appreciated. Cheers

Hi, some advice please. I am rigging up 8 garden spotlights, each one has an 80w PAR38 bulb. However, I want to "daisy-chain" them together so that I am left with only one plug at the end to go into the mains supply. My question is, what size fuse should I use for the plug? Cheers...