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    Deta ceiling roses

    Bit of a rant. Just moved into a new build house and it has these https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/4651390-150mm-safety-pendant-with-decorators-cover-white. Decorators cover a nice idea as long as the decorator waits for the paint to dry before putting the outer cover back or the paint...
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    Evolution circular saw

    My son said it didn’t work. He was right. Had it about 10 years and doesn’t do a lot of work. Wife used to work at B&Q and got it for £5 as end of range (200ish mm blade so it is a useful beast). Fuse OK, lead OK, took it apart and the DP switch neutral is staying open circuit. Short term...
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    Ring motion detector false alarms

    Installed about four weeks ago. Sensor in dining room (south west facing and lots of glass) has generated false alarms a couple of times, during the day only. Couple of days ago I swopped it with the sensor in the kitchen. It is going off again today (in the kitchen and the alternate now in...
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    24v transformer to fit Hager CU

    I had wondered about the busbar …. Looks like a separate box or a battery powered doorbell. Will see if I can find a small box for a transformer that I can mount high on the wall so it looks like a bell box.
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    24v transformer to fit Hager CU

    As above but there is only a single spare way in the CU. It is to power a Ring doorbell.
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    How far from the ring can an FCU be

    I see JohnW’s point but the CU is not getting updated this month and the alternative is an extension from the one existing socket which had a 30A rewirable fuse as protection and a single 2.5 able as supply.
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    KITCHEN SOCKETS tripping RCD

    Shouldn’t it have been specced as a hardwired connection rather than plug and socket?
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    How far from the ring can an FCU be

    The more you look…… There were three connections to the 15 A fuse. The two sockets (2.5) the garage door (1.0) and another (1.0) destination as yet unidentified - I didn’t want to start looking at 6 last night. Looks like the previous owner didn’t know about FCUs.
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    How far from the ring can an FCU be

    Ideally, but we had no control over the previous owner. We haven’t been here long.
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    How far from the ring can an FCU be

    We have a couple of portable RCDs for the risky jobs (lawn mower, power tools) but a whole house RCD has disadvantages (FiL had one) so RCDs can wait for the new CU. AIUI it isn’t mandatory but a new CU will need to comply with current regs so will have them. Previous owner was a real amateur...
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    How far from the ring can an FCU be

    Disconnected it at the CU to reroute cables and realised the answer was staring me in the face. There is a 15a fuse supplying two sockets in the garage, will connect it there. The garage demand is a chest freezer and the occasional power tool, the additional sockets in the kitchen will...
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    How far from the ring can an FCU be

    Am adding some sockets in the kitchen. There is already a single beside a redundant tv aerial point and plan is to link to this. On investigation the cable to the socket is a spur taken directly from one of the ring circuits at the CU (about 10 feet away in the garage) and wasn’t put in by the...
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    Changing a gas hob to an electric hob.

    Check you have an adequate electric supply for the hob.
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    Hep20 or something else?

    Now I know why the bidet in the en-suite that I removed (wife doesn’t like them) had its own cold supply from the (shared) header tank in the loft.
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    Where on earth is my roof aerial?

    Is it running off Wi-Fi? Try interrogating the TV to see what input it is using.
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