Recent content by Fwad

Can you take a picture inside the ceiling void (i.e. turn on flash and put the lens in the hole)? We need to see where the black and red wires enter the white / grey cable sheath.

The issue with the 0.75mm is it's flex and not T&E. Flex is designed for wires that a moved (i.e hoover power leads), T&E is designed for fixed wiring. To be perfectly honest I can't see using flex would cause any danger - but it's not best practice (0.75 will be able to handle the 6A which I...

1) You should be using twin and earth solid core cable and not flex 2) You don't say what rating your light is or what protection you have but 1mm should be large enough. 1.5mm is fine if there's no 1mm. 2.5mmyou might have issues getting into the light terminals. 3) Terminal blocks shouldn't...

Using MF connectors in a light switch is fine because the light switch doesn't need to be maintenance free - i.e. you're using a wago in there because it's quicker / small / neater but not because of the maintenance free function. I assumed the point of a MF box was to put the MF connectors...

Your DNO will disagree about the tails. He might be theoretically correct but your DNO won't agree to their fuse being used to protect > 2 / 3 meters without their permission (which they won't give and will tell you just to install a switch fuse so your fuse now protects it). Looks like 16mm^2...

One other thing - remember that building regs and maybe planning will come into play if your conversion is going to be permanent. If this is just to escape the kids / significant other during lockdown then I suspect no-one will care - but if you want to make this a permanent office then give a...

You want two LED lights both controlled by the same PIR? Google "PIR stand alone sensor" or similar ( https://www.google.com/search?q=pir+standalone+sensor ) You would feed line, neutral and earth into the sensor and the sensor would give out switched line, neutral and earth. You can then...

What size heaters do you what - a couple of 1KW? 2 x 1KW heaters is approx 8 amps Computer and screen maybe another 2 amps So that 10 amps on a cold day. Assuming you don't have a dryer / freezer in the garage then you should be okay on what you currently have but it's getting a bit close. I...

He could have a good guess from his Zs testing where the problem is ... assuming he bothered to do that correctly. I'm guess he would also write up a cracked faceplate as well rather than replace it

How this annoys me. He's disconnected the circuit from the board to run the R1/R2 tests. He's found that the CPC (Earth) is broken in the ring so rather than spend a few minutes finding it seeing as he's done most of the hard work, he it puts it back together again and wants another 144 quid...

Unless the old CU was really old I think it's unlikely that it *needed* replacing. You aren't adding any more circuits so it's not a space issue. It's very likely that it wasn't up to modern regs but that doesn't matter - consumer units don't suddenly become dangerous because the regs change...

It might look nicer if you replaced the single socket with a fused outlet (something like this https://www.screwfix.com/p/crabtree-instinct-13a-switched-fused-spur-flex-outlet-with-led-white/973hv ) then you can do away with the bulky plug

The change in 2017(?) to the notifiable work at least pushed back against a lot of this so basically unless you're adding a new circuit or changing a CU then it's not notifiable any more. I share your frustrations with the growing number of sparks that attempt to discourage DIY; to me this...

why can't you just mount a pull cord in the ceiling? This is almost certainly ensure it's outside of the restricted zones as well

His house is the one with the new dorma I assume? That work is a rough as anything. Assuming he just been doing a loft conversion that I assume he's been doing work on the party wall. Did he get you to sign a party wall agreement? If not then talk to the CAB about getting an injunction...