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Many thanks - much appreciated :D

Hi Chri5 This is the 1st floor of a 3 storey building (ground floor commercial, floors 1 & 2 maisonette) so there is a habitable floor above, hence the decor issue. If (and it's only an if at this stage!) I put a heat alarm in the kitchen, I presumably don't need to put one in the lounge as...

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I hope I'm reasonably familiar with the current regs - smoke alarms not to be within 30cm of a light fittings or walls, alarms to be mounted within 3m of all bedroom doors, etc. However I'm a little confused by the "Max 7.5m from any door to a habitable room" clause. I have a attached a rough...

Thanks again :D

Cheers Chri5. I see your logic and it looks like I'll have to reconfigure as you suggest. The building will be due a final inspection by the BCO, so my next question is...... Is it OK to feed the maisonette alarms off a lighting circuit (ie not off their own dedicated MCB/RCBO?) The lighting...

Yuck......... :x My concern was that a future user could simply remove the shower head, unthread the hose from the soap dish and, with very little effort, contravene the regs. I'm surprised, therefore that I can "get away" without the check valve. That said, the shower is already installed...

Hi all. As I understand the "rules" you need to fit a double check valve to an electric shower if the shower head could potentially dangle in the bath. Correct? Now, on the shower I've just fitted Triton kindly provide a soap dish thingy that clips onto the bar, and, provided you thread the...

OK, here's the scenario. 3 storey property - commercial on the ground floor, 2 floor maisonette above. The maisonette has it's own supply, meter, CU, etc, located inside the property, BUT the smoke alarms (proper battery/mains interlinked jobs) are fed from the CU in the commercial property...

Great - thanks :D

Brilliant. Thanks again. The cost of a couple of RCBOs is peanuts compared with the hassle involved in fitting earth bonding now the floors are down & the walls plastered! Just one final question - how should the RCCB be labelled? Obviously every MCB & RCBO will be labelled with the name...

That's great - thanks all. So, to clarify, I'm OK with the following course of action: - Gas & water bonded to the MET where they enter the building. (10mm csa back to a labelled earthing terminal, then 16mm csa back to the supplier's MET.) - Bathroom light & shower (the only electrics in...

Oh dear - and I thought I'd asked a simple question !! I am now confused by the following: 1) Are we now saying I can't run the shower & the bathroom lights of RCBOs? If so, what are the options? Separate RCCDs with separate MCBs? (In which case I may not have room in the existing 10...