I just assumed to put the sockets onto a ring, i thought this was the best way to go.
Do you know which circuits can be ring finals and which cannot, and what the advantages and disadvantages of each are?
Which is what most people, including me, said was the only way it could work.I already have an electrician and am going to meet up with him. He is happy for me to put the cable runs in and to wire the sockets switches, lights etc but he says he will need to check them.
The thing is, rewiring a house, installing new CUs, outside supplies, submains etc is not a trivial job, and I can assure you that it involves knowing far more than you think it does, even to come up with a good high-level design.I asked the questions to help with knowledge of how to wire these extension in correctly
It would of been nice if someone would of answered my questions, and if they needed a longer explanation then that would of been nice.
Asking questions here can be a useful part of a learning process, but they are not a substitute for proper structured studying. The key term there is "learning process" - you cannot learn all the things you need to know just by asking questions here. It isn't structured enough - it won't provide you with a way to progress where each step builds on what you learned before.
You can't carry out a job of this magnitude by asking whatever random questions happen to occur to you. You've already shown that you have some dodgy misconceptions - what if you get something wrong because you have no idea your knowledge is wrong? What if you miss something because you simply have no idea it even exists, and just don't realise you don't know it?
Which, of course, you could have taken as indicating things you should learn about.Instead all i get from you all is, do you know this and that
I moderate on a forum and we keep it friendly. We dont flame and have a go at people who have done stuff wrong, we point them in the right direction. There is no such thing as a bad/stupid question, it is stupid not to ask a question. I feel that you have been less than polite whereas you could of steered me in the right direction in how to wire this job.
- //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics
- //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:books
- http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/electricity.html
- http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/domesticinstallations.html
- http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/1.1.htm[/list]I suggest you get stuck into the last link right away - it won't give you design ideas, and unfortunately it doesn't refer to the current edition of the Wiring Regulations, but it's free, and will still give you a good grounding which you can augment with more up to date publications.
As for taking the mickey out of me for saying thanks, then that is apalling, you should be ashamed of yourself ban-all-sheds!! How can you take the mickey out of someone being polite!!!!!!