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I didn't mean that we can all do without an electrician, I was specifically talking about the kit that can be easily source on the Internet. I was trying to replicate this kit as it can be done for half the price and do the work myself. Given Ericmarks comments, it looks like I'll have to...

Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of a shed etc. being close to the pond, in fact the shed is closer to the house than the pond so I'd have to make at least one connection externally. The boxes I've been looking at are from Pratley and have built in glands for SWA cables, in fact the kit...

Yes, ericmark, it's the Blagdon kits that I've seen and are still available but for the length of cable I'd need, the price seems to be close to £200. Securespark, maybe it was my wording but it was these Blagdon kits that are marketed at home owners so that they can be installed by the...

As I will be doing the work myself.

Having put in a pond over a year ago and with the oxygenating plant and other planting now well established, I wish to install an air pump initially so that I can get a few fish. This maybe be extended to UV device but not essential at the moment but I'd like to put a system in now that can be...

Well I don't have any kit to do that but given that the oven doesn't get hot at all then I have to assume the element is bust.

The AEG Competence B4101-4-M built-in electric oven was installed when I moved in to my current house. This has been working fine. At the weekend, during use, the oven made a loud pop and tripped the circuit breaker. I turned the oven off, reset the circuit and turned the oven back on...

I'm not a qualified electrician but I've had personal experience of changing light switches and sockets from plastic to metal and they were being fitted to metal back boxes. The advice I got at the time, was that you had an earth cable from the earth connection on the switch to the earth...

Yep, I will certainly be having a look at that, thanks.

This is the dilema I have, it's used enough during the winter to need heating. It has the dining table in and my son has his xbox in there, I prefer him not to be locked away in his bedroom where I can't see him. I currently have a small electric panel type heater in there, as installed by...

Oops, sorry, I've just realised what I've done and clicked reply on the wrong thread, that'll teach me to have multiple windows open in my browser!

This is the dilema I have, it's used enough during the winter to need heating. It has the dining table in and my son has his xbox in there, I prefer him not to be locked away in his bedroom where I can't see him. I currently have a small electric panel type heater in there, as installed by...

Should a run-of-the mill plumber know this or would he be choosing to ignore this as if no one knows then where's the problem? So if I went ahead and put the radiator in regardless, this is something that could come back to bite me when I came to sell my house, a bit like doing electrical...

I currently have an electric panel type heater in my conservatory. I thinking about replacing this with a radiator, extended from my current heating system. I have had a reasonable quote from a firm to do this, they sounded competent and I have no reason to doubt their ability to do the...

If this guy is supposedly a "qualified electrician" then there's no hope for us poor lot that aren't!!! :cry: Maybe it's time to stick the live cable somewhere...