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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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    Extending T&E cable behind plaster

    You are going to be filling holes in the wall anyway so if you can lift the floorboards above replace the cables to the sockets and have the joints in the floor space above. If you ever need to get to them you just lift the floorboards again.
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    Cut into live mains cable with metal stanley knife..

    Long time ago worked in York Carriage Works, electrician came back from lunch and forgot the power was on and reached in to an electrical connection box with a spanner. Probably 1000V DC, he just had a nice burn on his hand from the spanner. Any guesses to the brand of the spanner?
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    How to deal with a window when building a stud wall in a bathroom

    Yes, he is hanging the toilet on the stud wall! They are fine if you are bolting them to something good and solid but you need to be certain they will stay put if a large relative/friend uses it.
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