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    Removing home surround sound system tips PLEASE!

    Personaly, I would keep them and plug in surround sound system. To have these wires already hidden and installed is a God send ! I've never had one untill three years ago and I'll always have one now.
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    Hive removal - rough idea of cost?

    Can the smart functions of the Hive be turned off, so you can just use it as a standard thermostat ?
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    Meter replacement

    Would wrapping the antenna/transceiver stop communication ? Thus turning it back to a dumb meter !
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    Am I being ripped off? - Solar and Battery Install

    I know nothing about solar, so what's the £2k admin charge about ?
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    Generator to supply domestic boiler

    Could you use a UPS instead ? No getting the genny and extension lead out or resetting the timers on the thermostat
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    Plug

    Nice !!
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    Multiple blown GU10s

    If I recall correctly, the closer you are to the sub-station the higher your voltage is. So if a standard incandescent bulb is rated at 230 volts and your actual voltage is 253 volts (+10% / –6% tolerance), that could be why they are blowing. As Winston suggested, get LEDs that are far more...
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    Day rate advice

    Just because he's charging you twice as much doesn't mean to say that it's split equally between the two. Thee electrician might be getting £300 and the apprentice £100
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    Fitting new light - 9 wire, 4 terminal ceiling rose to 6 wire, 3 terminal terminal box

    Take off the "terminal box with two terminals for live, two for earth, and two for neutral". On your exicting ceiling rose, put the two lives in the switched live, the two earths in the earth and the two neutrals in the neutral terminal.
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    Ring Circuit Layout

    Just what I was thinking.
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    What's the neatest way to run this cable?

    Brilliant idea, I didn't think of that !
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    General Rewire

    I'd say that's doable in south wales (as said labour only). But only if that's just the electrics and without telephone, ethernet, alarm etc.
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    Relay question

    I've bought two "lm35dz-v2" in the past (http://denkovi.com/snmp-eight-relay-board-for-temperature-measurement-lm35dz-v2), not for what you are doing,but they are very capable of what you need, from http://denkovi.com. There is a Wifi version available, the only downside is that you'd have to...
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    Compliance with IP rating on consumer unit

    Maybe a gland ? https://www.screwfix.com/c/electrical-lighting/cable-glands/cat12480003?cm_sp=managedredirect-_-electrical-_-cablegland
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    Junction box or wago connectors?

    Wago's are fine, just make sure they are in an enclosure with cord restraints.
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