Recent content by karter

Big thanks to all for your speedy replies. This forum is so usefull.

My brother is in the process of renovating a house to live in. He has had most of the work completed, new electrics,pipework for central heating, plastering ,etc and his plumber has coming back next week to install a Worcester combi boiler. His plumber has told him that he must have a roomstat...

B.A.S. by your comment ( TT opt out solution ) does that mean that if the suppliers earthing was when tested found to be inadequat that it could be disconected and a correctly installed full TT system applied.Am I right in assuming that you could not leave the TNS connected if you just added an...

Thanks Nozspark and Rocky333. I understand the points you have made.I am not an electrician, but am I right to assume that if my mates C.U. installing sparks did all the checks and found that Ze for T.N.S. was within the 0.8 limit that this old small link to earth is perfectly safe and acceptable.

I was in a mates garage the other day and noticed his nice new hagar consumer unit.The main earth from the earth block to the C.U. was in 16mm and the M.E.B. to the gas and water was in 10mm. OK so far but here is my querie the supply earth was T.N.S. with just a few strands, at a guess no more...

At present I am working in a pub and along with other jobs I have been asked to look at saving energy on the lighting . My electrician intends to fit cfls inplace of halogen downlights and energy saving lamps to all other normally switched areas.The owner has requested that in areas not in...

Many thanks Gary mo and Ban for your speedy replies.Ban , I know from reading your replies how accurate and serious you take the advice you give. My electrician will be installing the SY and certifying to building control, it was just realy the 2nd RCD situation, could you please explain the...

I would like to take power to a garden water feature from a spur off the conservatory ring circuit which is RCD protected via a switched FCU to be installed in the conservatory, the cable run being in 2.5 SY cable to the water feature. It has been suggested that it might be better to go via an...

Hi Woody I have seen instances where a 45 degree angle a little wider than the O/D of the cable has been carefully chissled across the 90 degree corner and the progressive gentle bend that you must apply to SWA has been gently teased into the created recess keeping the protrssion from the...

Hi guys hope you can help. About three and a half years ago I had a new boundary wall built partly off old concrete footings approx 20 years old and partly off new. A neighbour is now saying this section of new wall on the old footings has been moved from the position of the previous old wall...

Thanks for your reply Chris5 , so as long as rain cannot fall directly on to the light it is safe not to be I.P. rated.I am not bothered re the rusting, chrome outside you expect to clean once in a while it was just the safety aspect possible spray from hose pipe or condensation etc. Thanks again.

Ive just moved into a newbuild house with canopy porch over the front door and garage. I noticed that there was some rust on the chrome bezzel of the downlights set into the plastic faced ceiling of the canopy.On starting to clean them I found they were standard 230 volt downlights and on...

Thanks Chris for your speedy reply you were right the boiler is 16 years old.Just got the wife to operate the tap while I watched the boiler.When the hot tap was opened the main flame died leaving just the pilot and there was a repeated clicking noise, like a solenoid coming from the mid to...

Hi guys hope you can help. I have a Celtic FF boiler,central heating works fine but the hot water from taps starts to run warm approaching hot and then runs cold within about 15 seconds.Ive tried switching to hot water only on boiler but same thing happens. Boiler is about 12 years old.Any...

thanks all ,especially Steve 3948 it appears my mate is buying the beer kind regards.