• Looking for a smarter way to manage your heating this winter? We’ve been testing the new Aqara Radiator Thermostat W600 to see how quiet, accurate and easy it is to use around the home. Click here read our review.

Recent content by OwainDIYer

  1. O

    Double Socket with FCU For Boiler? Recommendations Please

    Boilers require Double Pole isolation so must be used with a plug and an UNSWITCHED socket, or with a FCU. Plugging into a switched socket is not permitted, as not all switched sockets are DP switched. This might be in Gas Safety regs rather than Electrical regs, but is required.
  2. O

    Spurred fuse terminal capacity

    wagos.
  3. O

    Insulated Piercing Connector

    The simplest thing is to contact your supplier and get them to change you to a single-rate tariff with the off-peak meter output set to 24 hour on.
  4. O

    Kitchen wall unit fixings for thermalite wall

    Kitchen unit fixing rails eg https://www.tcfixings.co.uk/product/cabinet-hanger-wall-rail-27mm-x-2032mm/13864 together with suitable wallplugs as mentioned.
  5. O

    Bookcase Pegs

    I can't find anything that looks similar. Might be easier to replace the strips with new ones for which pegs are available?
  6. O

    Ceiling rose and wide light fitting

    No, you drill a small hole in the decorative rose and feed the cables through from above. Then affix the light fitting onto (below) that. If it won't sit solidly over the flower effect you will need a decorative rose with a larger flat centre, or a different fitting.
  7. O

    Replacing internet/phone line into house.

    The master socket (NTE) can be fitted to a flush single electrical box. The filtered faceplate will still stick out a bit, but not as much.
  8. O

    Advice needed for VIMAR 8870 wall intercom

    Try shorting between 3 (common) and 7 (lock) with a piece of wire. That should activate the lock release.
  9. O

    Overhead telephone cable in way of extension

    About £90 + VAT if it's classed as "External Shift", or £90+VAT per hour for time-based work. Moving to a different pole may not be possible if that pole's fully occupied, and the other pole may go back to a completely separate part of the local network. Those are the wholesale rates - what they...
  10. O

    Plug extension to outside

    Is the circuit RCD protected? All new sockets must be RCD protected. Is the circuit a ring or a radial? If a ring, is that single socket on a ring or a spur? If it's a spur (and it could be run as two single sockets which was permitted until, I think, 16th Edition) you cannot run any further...
  11. O

    Is this batten light Ok for central wires ?

    The Screwfix LAP one is NOT central or flush entry at all. The only cable entry is the gland at one end and, as it does not continue a CPC through the fitting, is unsuitable for daisy-chaining.
  12. O

    New kitchen sockets .. SP or DP ?

    AFAIK the only restriction is that a central heating boiler cannot be plugged into a switched socket. Must be an unswitched socket or a fused connection unit. This is so that L+N isolation is assured, by pulling out the plug or switching off.
  13. O

    Draining a hot-water cylinder (title edited)

    If you have a hot tap that's below the level of the cylinder, putting in two tees into the cold in (bottom) and hot out (top) and joining them with a pipe with a stoptap in means that you can open the stoptap and then drain most of the cylinder down through the hot tap. Can be handier than...
  14. O

    Telephone Point Wiring For Replacement Cover

    The white one you've got is a NTE (network termination equipment) and is required to terminate the OpenReach line and provide a means of disconnecting your extension wiring, provide a test point to plug a telephone into, and allow the future use of service-specific faceplates for DSL filtering...
  15. O

    30 minutes with the woman of your choice

    Mary Berry. 30 mins should be enough for a chocolate cake. I can take it out of the oven myself after she's left.
See more
Back
Top