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I've found a junction box in the ceiling now, need a bit more time to retrieve it to see if I can move the pantry switch to permanent live rather than switched as you suggest. At the time I went in to hospital for an op, when I got back to the house I was renovating the whole thing before...

Hi, Sorry for the long winded post but I'm trying to get my head around the following... When I did up my kitchen a few years ago, I asked the sparky to install a separate light switch and light fitting in the pantry so that I could turn the light on independently. Light fitting and switch...

I was just thinking of the FCU as an isolation point within the garage. Will have to check the fuse sizes. I take it the DP isolates both the live and neutral?

Hi, I have a garage which takes its power supply from an RCD protected MCB in the main house CU via SWA cable. In the garage is an older style fuse board with 1x output to a 1x double socket and 1x which goes to a single light fitting. My idea was to take a spur from the power...

Ok, thanks again for all your responses :D

Yes it's a shower pump and has never given me any trouble. Only info I can find about it on the net states: 'Pump requires 230volt AC supply fused at 3amps via a double pole isolator with contact gap of at least 3mm'. It's a Bristan Varispeed 50 -...

Thanks again for the reply - All sorted! I terminated the 'spare live' as indicated and hey presto, everything came back to life including the FCU. So it looks like those two wires had just been looped and pressed in together without a screw for 17 years before finally working their...

So I checked the master bedroom switch which is a 2 gang 2 way as there are 2 ceiling pendant lights and found this which looks horrific but I'm no expert: The wire which loops from one side to the other didn't even have a screw in it on one side but the lights still worked. Wires...