Recent content by kevmcdo9

the round pin socket is a good idea but its directly above a door. Thanks for your help bud I appreciate it .

Its a downstairs room so access isn't availible. I think I'm going to go ahead and go with the dry lining box. With a brushed steel flat blanking plate. So I could just run a single neutral and live and earth obviously ? Its 1mm and I have lots of 1.5 but I guess it's best to keep it the same ?

Unfortunetly I cant get access to complety replace the cables. I was hoping to join the wires in arrangement in a dry lining box in the ceiling for access. Would it be fine to use a terminal block ? what sort of junction box where you thinking of ?

Hi folks, Recently moved a partition wall and I need to move one of the light pendants by around two meters. Under the rose there is; 5 T&E: 3 neutral going into rose 1 Live going into rose 3 red wires connected together & 1 red and black connected together. Could I run 3...

They both isolate..... :oops: honestly the 'house skts' mcb would not isolate the sockets for the past week ! it is now isolating when I turn it off .......? Confused.com

It turns on both with all others off and with all others on. I would have thought that there would have been two seperate rings for ground and first floor. This is not the case. 2nd from right 'House Skts' turns all sockets apart from the kitchen and the 3rd from right turns on the kitchen...

yes bernard all other mcb's isolate fine.

So I turned my RCD off to take the cover off cu for photo, when turning it back on the sockets didn't come on so I put the 'house skts' mcb on and they came on.......even though it wouldn't isolate them all the times before. what do you make of the insulation tape ?

Hi Folks, Just a quick question, is it normal to only be able to isolate your house sockets by switching the RCD off ? I ask because this is the only way on my CU i.e there is no MCB to isolate them.....well there is but it dosen't isolate them :?

well....i'm not an electrician or a plumber for that matter but my friend works for a kitchen and bathroom supplier and she would not let me buy a gainsborough shower because of the amount of them that end up going on fire !! not trying to alarm you :D the manual that you get with them...

do you by any chance leave the isolator switch on most of the time ?

i'll just try asking on a diy forum then...........................