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I was being facetious! The place is in need of a rewire, but until I find the £3-4,000 to do it, the VIR cables and 50 year old fuse box will have to soldier on. Will get it tested before I get any further work done, though.

The sparks from work said he'd take a look. Rest assured, my consumer unit is of the single-bladed fuse variety and the light switch to the bathroom looks like spaghetti junction. Thankfully it is located outside the bathroom. They are VIR singles coming out of conduit. The one I referred...

My lighting circuit wiring is very old. In the bathroom I have three wires, sheathed in fabric that come from metal conduit. One wire is a switch live, another one permanent live and the third is neutral. In the bathroom light fitting (not loop-in) switch live is in one terminal and neutral...

I routed the cable vertically from the FCU a couple of feet and then horizontally, at a right angle, a couple of feet, in line with the flex outlet. So the flex outlet is on a diagonal line from the FCU, but the cable is routed at a right angle. If this is wrong, how does one route the cable...

The oven came with a flex - 1.5mm I believe. The hob instructions specify a similar flex. I shall check their ratings. Hopefully I can wire them both to the terminal outlet. The CCU is a standard 45A and the radial circuit is 30A.

thanks for your replies - I know you're not allowed to embed cable diagonallly and within 150mm of the edge of a wall, shoiuld I have run it horizontally, then vertically?

Hello - My old hob and oven were both wired into a terminal outlet that was screwed into the back of the kitchen unit, and was, in turn, wired with 6mm cable to 45A cooker control unit. The CCU is on a 6mm radial from the consumer unit, protected by a 30amp, single-bladed, fuse. My...

Hello all. I have a fused connection unit, which I presume spurs from the ring main, because it is connected to a single T&E cable and when I remove the 30amp fuse which I know protects the ring, the supply stops. Before plastering, I ran a 2.5mm T&E from this FCU (vertically, then...