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Great, thank you very much Aardvark. I'll be installing in Zone 2. Have checked my socket and it has BS EN 61558 stamped on the back. Just googled it and this appears to be a recent addition to BS 60742...

Am installing an isolated shaver socket in the bathroom (have already notified) and am taking power from the lighting circuit. I don't have enough space to sink the socket into a metal box in the wall (plasterboard wall with noggins in the way). Is it acceptable to use a plastic patress fixed...

Hi, the link didn't work for me. Is the website down?

If you're using this chocbox can you get away with using standard terminal blocks? (e.g. http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=A331811&ts=67566&id=29660)

Thought I'd update this in case anyone still cares... I posted the original question as I didn't want to run the risk of soaking the flat below. My problem was that the drain cock for the system was higher than the point that I had to cut into the pipes to move them (which was underneath the...

Great thank you. Interested to see that they can be installed in insulation. Does that mean that I can be lazy and just poke them straight into the insulation (even if it touches) without using the famed inverted flower-pot? :)

Sorry - cut'n'pasting error: Link to low energy downlight is http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Lighting_Menu_Index/Lighting_Downlights_Index/Downlights_Energy_Saving/index.html

Have been reading about low energy lighting on these forums and wondering how many of you out there have installed these and what you think of them. I'm redoing a kitchen in a top floor flat and am considering putting low energy downlighters in the ceiling...

Great tip! Thank you very much.

Most of the cable is in a channel at the top of the joists about 10mm below the floorboard. The cable runs at right parallel to the floorboards so cuts across 8 joists. Can see your point that it could be damaged by a nail. There is space to lay the cable in plastic conduit. Would this be...

Just a quickie: I'm extending the ring main in the kitchen and am laying cable underneath the floor boards. I've laid the cable alongside the cold water pipe and the cable shares the same channels/holes in the joists as the water pipe. The water pipe is earthed. Would this fail wiring...

No worries Bambergaspipe!!!! I haven't moved the pipes yet...so much that still could go wrong!!!

Great, thanks for your advice gas4you and fumb. That all sounds perfectly fine. Was just relunctant to get anything wet!

I need to drain my sealed central heating system which is attached to a combi boiler in order to move a radiator. I understand that I can use the drain cock located on a pipe beneath the boiler by switching of the power and water supply to the boiler, connecting a hose to the drain cock, and...