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Just a quick check to make sure I've got this right - I've currently got a programmable wireless roomstat Danfoss RX1 and am swapping it for a Hive 2. No programmer on the boiler - all done from thermostat. Intended wiring below - does this seem correct?

I notice ban-all-sheds in another post mentioning that you shouldn't fill conduit or trunking more than 45%, IIRC. Does this mean the 1.5mm T&E (and 1mm 3C & E) in the steel conduit that holds my lighting circuit is dodgy? Uh oh. And I thought my electrical jobs were over :( Looks...

Am swithering over whether to put in 12v halogen downlighters into my bathroom or those new fangled LED ones. Having put the standard 12v halogens into a previous bathroom I know that I need 6 x 20w. Haven't a clue with the LED ones though (and anyone know a good article on calculating lux?)...

Have bought 3 Kidde 240v smoke alarms from TLC and am planning to fit them onto their own radial from the consumer unit and interlink them. Question is - can I simply run the 1mm straight to the first alarm from the MCB or should it go through a FCU. Instructions talk of putting them on a...

Am rewiring for my new kitchen which will have the following 4 double sockets 1 x extractor fan dishwasher, fridge and washing machine double oven & gas hob ignitor Now, had thought maybe the following circuits would be right: 2.5mm 32a ring for sockets, spurred for extractor & hob...

I've got a length of protected cable running through the cellar then under concrete for around 15m from the CU to my garage. It's 1.5mm2 (why the previous owner didn't fit 2.5 or 4mm2 I don't know) so I understand that a 20amp MCB/RCBO is going to be too high. Question is, what's a safe...

I have cabling fo the ground floor ring, cooker radial and lighting for a cellar etc running from the consumer unit down the wall and through to underneath the floor. Obviously I'd like to hide them but in a safe (!) way. Was thinking of putting them all in one of these...

Have read the DIY info FWL_Engineer has hosted at the Franklin Wood site and it raised my techie interest in the subject of RCDs etc. I'm guessing the provision of a RCD-equipped socket outlet (as suggested for an internal socket used for external equipment) on a circuit protected by an MCB...

Just bought a 1930's house and have had a quick check over the electrics. Am intrigued because the supply comes into hallway from under the floor into a cast iron Y shape, with the phase & neutrals each going through a separate fuse wire (behind a cover - but not sealed) and then dissapearing...