Recent content by capra

We thought about it but decided to leave them this time. We have ample sockets around the house but I'm sure the electrician we use will convince us we need more at some time in the future.

No problem, no. It's just me....I like things to be tidy. If I take the floor up I don't like to see mess underneath or cables that don't go anywhere. It's only until I can get the rest of the upper floors relaid. But yes, it gives me peace of mind whereas the wife give me a piece of her...

The off-peak consumer unit is still in the cabinet but the mcb's are removed and there are no cables/circuits visible. Like I said, I just wanted a way of making it look tidy. The three other ends of the storage heater circuits are just bound in tape and marked 'not live' and then stuffed...

I've taken up the floor in our back bedroom and found a redundant mains cable in the void. The previous owners had an electric fire in the room below powered from one of the old storage heater circuits on the other side of the room. I've had people in the remove the low tariff meter but...

OK, an FCU it is. Next question, same topic. Does the FCU have to be in the same room? As I said in the original post we don't have the money to start working on the sitting room just yet but we are in the middle of doing the room above. This is where the spurs originate from so can the...

You see that's why I'm asking for the experts to offer advice. I don't know squat myself, other than to ask. :-)

We didn't have a check at all - a long story that boils down to an oversight by our solicitor who thought it had been done and told told us he had the paperwork and all was OK... Seriously, how many people have a periodic inspection? I lived in my last property for 19 years and none of the...

We've just purchased a 1978-built house without getting an electrical safety test done. Upon investigation I've found two places where a socket on the ringmain has a double socket spur and then that spur is also spurred to another double socket. The cables are white t/e 2.5mm (red/black) so...