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Many thanks Chri5. I just wanted to be sure from a safety point. If the 10mm cable does not fit I will get a length of 6mm. Cheers.

I am about to fit a new dual fuel cooker. The consumer unit is connected to the control unit and then to the outlet using 10mm cable. I have just looked at the cooker manual and it says the connection to the cooker should be min 2.5mm^2 and max 6mm^2. Is it okay to use the 10mm cable I have...

When I turn the cooker on it trips out the electrics to the rest of the house. Is this the cooker or the consumer board?

I have just had a new ceiling put in the kitchen and have had the cable from old spotlights run through it in order to fit new downlights. The cable is in roughly the correct position to within a centimeter or so. My question is how to accurately measure the holes for the new lights so that...

To run parallel, the ducting would have to be about 3 meters long, but it would then have to exit through a pitched roof of a single story extension. I think the best option is to run it to the right, about 3 feet and box in the flue?

No, cant go into the ceiling, the floor joists run against the direction of the duct.

Rectangular ducting sounds good. Thanks guys.

We are planning our new kitchen and we are fitting a cooker hood. The problem is how to vent it externally! The cooker against an internal wall so we cannot vent to the rear. We could vent to the right, to an external wall 3 feet away, but this is next to a pavement. Is this a problem...