Hi Guys,
I'm sure you must tire of fresh-faced young DIYers with lots of enthusiasm and little skill, but I’ve got to start somewhere.. some please could somebody sanity-check the following for me..
I want to move a light switch from one side of the door to the other. Under the face plate are four connections:
A twin & earth – my feed in from the lighting ring?
A twin & earth – my feed out to the ring again ?
Another twin and earth – which leads to my light fitting
A three core and earth – which leads to another switch for the same light.
I don’t think the cable will reach to the new location, and I don't feel happy replacing long runs of cabling yet... so I have bought the following:
10 meters of 1mm2 3core and earth rated 240v/13 amps.
25 meters of 1.5mm2 twin and earth, 240v at 20 amps.
They are the new colours so I’m planning to drawer a diagram out and then convert the colours beforehand so I know what needs to go where.
As for the actual cable joiners, I know you chaps insist people buy proper crimping tools to extending cables.. so I am planning on getting the following kit:
This ratchet crimper:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat...d/cat/pro.jsp?id=18475&slotName=null&homeRef=
Some of these butt-splices:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=70554&ts=81847
And some of this tape to wrap them in when I’m done:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea...amalgamating&pn=1&pd=1&pi=1&cn=1&cd=1&x=0&y=0
Please tell me if this all seems reasonable, I’m feeling comfortable with what I’m doing but I just want to make sure I’m not missing anything that’ll fry me like a Cajun catfish. Obviously I’ll turn off the power before hand...
My home electrics book says any DIYer sparky work should be checked out by a registered spark, but if I was going to pay for that surely it’d cost about the same just to get him to do it anyway .. !
Cheers
Adam
I'm sure you must tire of fresh-faced young DIYers with lots of enthusiasm and little skill, but I’ve got to start somewhere.. some please could somebody sanity-check the following for me..
I want to move a light switch from one side of the door to the other. Under the face plate are four connections:
A twin & earth – my feed in from the lighting ring?
A twin & earth – my feed out to the ring again ?
Another twin and earth – which leads to my light fitting
A three core and earth – which leads to another switch for the same light.
I don’t think the cable will reach to the new location, and I don't feel happy replacing long runs of cabling yet... so I have bought the following:
10 meters of 1mm2 3core and earth rated 240v/13 amps.
25 meters of 1.5mm2 twin and earth, 240v at 20 amps.
They are the new colours so I’m planning to drawer a diagram out and then convert the colours beforehand so I know what needs to go where.
As for the actual cable joiners, I know you chaps insist people buy proper crimping tools to extending cables.. so I am planning on getting the following kit:
This ratchet crimper:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat...d/cat/pro.jsp?id=18475&slotName=null&homeRef=
Some of these butt-splices:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=70554&ts=81847
And some of this tape to wrap them in when I’m done:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea...amalgamating&pn=1&pd=1&pi=1&cn=1&cd=1&x=0&y=0
Please tell me if this all seems reasonable, I’m feeling comfortable with what I’m doing but I just want to make sure I’m not missing anything that’ll fry me like a Cajun catfish. Obviously I’ll turn off the power before hand...
My home electrics book says any DIYer sparky work should be checked out by a registered spark, but if I was going to pay for that surely it’d cost about the same just to get him to do it anyway .. !
Cheers
Adam