Recent content by darkgr33n

thanks for the flexgrip stuff. its important, i know, as an electrician rewired our boiler and the plug burnt out 'cause the neutral wasn't tight enough. i didn't realise you could get timer's like that. mine's the plug-in time, where you plug into the timer, which plus into the mains. I'll...

:lol: safer perhaps ? not sure what the officiall take is on more than one light run from one plug ? I've done it over the years without incident, but I may have just been lucky...

thanks for that. I do have a two-pin junction box at the moment, just to extend my two-core cable, but if I can use a three-core one [if i can clear enough snow away from the garage, i may have one] for both two-core and three-core, then that may be the best option as I really want them on the...

thanks for your quick reply - i didn't know such a thing existed, sounds perfect. I was going to just stuff both into a normal plug, but this seems much neater [and probably safer?] cheers

Hi All I have a plastic outside bulkhead light that lights my driveway, which is wired with two-core flex, directly into a standard plug, which in turn is plugged into one of those plug-in timers. I have just purchased a metal outdoor porch light, and isn't double-insulated, so I need to...